Rating: 2.5★
Rob Zombie arrived at The Devil's Rejects (2005) with something to prove. His debut feature, House of 1000 Corpses (2003), had been a difficult birth: shot in 2000, shelved by Universal after concerns about its content, eventually picked up by Lionsgate and released to polarised notices. It was
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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) at twenty-five: a look back at the film, its making and its legacy.
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No country has given me more pure cinematic pleasure over the years than Japan. It is a national cinema vast enough to contain the greatest samurai epics ever made, the most beloved animated films on the planet, nightmarish horror, tender family drama and wild genre experiments, often all at once.
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Training Day (2001) at twenty-five: a look back at the film, its making and its legacy.
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Every so often a film comes along with the courage to trust its audience completely, and These Violent Delights is exactly that. Scottish Ballet's first feature is a wordless, wildly vivid retelling of Romeo and Juliet told entirely through dance, and it is a bold, beautiful and genuinely
Rating: 0.5★
Dog Star Man is one of the most discussed works in the history of American experimental cinema, a film that arrived in pieces between 1961 and 1964 before being assembled into its complete 78-minute form in 1965. Stan Brakhage released it through Film-Makers' Cooperative, the distribution organisation
Rating: 3.0★
Peter Hujar's Day arrives in 2025 as one of the more unusual entries in recent American independent cinema: a seventy-six minute reconstruction of a single day in the life of a photographer, drawn from an audio recording that had been sitting in an archive for half a
Rating: 2.5★
Michael Mann has been making films about men who are very good at dangerous jobs since Thief (1981), and the preoccupations he established there, the professional codes, the neon-drenched urban landscapes, the slow accumulation of pressure before violence arrives, have followed him through everything since. Miami Vice (2006) is,
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Marking Christoph Waltz at 70: a look back across Christoph's career through the films I've reviewed.
Rating: 3.0★
There is a version of mid-2000s Hollywood comedy that dates badly, all smirk and swagger, and then there is the strand that Judd Apatow helped establish, one that kept its heart just visible beneath the raunch. The 40-Year-Old Virgin, released in August 2005 through Universal Pictures and
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There are films that arrive with a reputation so formidable that watching them feels less like discovery and more like catching up with history. The Red Shoes (1948) is absolutely one of those films, though it earned its standing the hard way: it was a commercial gamble that defied studio
Rating: 3.5★
British cinema has a long habit of finding grace in the unglamorous corners of its own cities, and Scrapper (2023) fits squarely into that tradition. Writer-director Charlotte Regan sets her debut feature in a working-class London suburb, following twelve-year-old Georgie, who has been living alone in
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