Rating: 2.5★
Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune has spent decades being called unfilmable, which is either a challenge or a warning depending on who you ask. David Lynch found out the hard way in 1984, producing a film so chaotic and misshapen that Herbert himself reportedly walked out of an
Rating: 3.0★
Gus Van Sant arrived at Paranoid Park fresh from one of the more celebrated stretches of his career. His loosely connected "Death Trilogy" (comprising Gerry, Elephant, and Last Days) had established him as one of American independent cinema's most formally adventurous directors, a filmmaker willing to
Rating: 2.5★
When Scary Movie landed in cinemas in the summer of 2000, it arrived on the back of a very specific cultural moment: the late-Nineties slasher revival, led by the Scream franchise and its many imitators, had given the parody genre a fresh set of targets. The film was a
Rating: 3.5★
There are films that tell you a story, and then there are films that simply confront you with the world and leave you to make of it what you will. Koyaanisqatsi, released in 1982 and directed by Godfrey Reggio, belongs firmly to that second, far less populated category. The title
Rating: 3.0★
British horror has always had a particular talent for turning familiar settings into places of genuine unease, from the fog-wrapped villages of Hammer's golden era to the mundane suburbia of more recent genre fare. The Descent, released in 2005, sits comfortably in that tradition while doing something
Rating: 4.0★
There are films that take a single, universally understood fear and squeeze every last drop of tension from it, and Robert Harmon's The Hitcher is one of the more impressive examples of that discipline to come out of the 1980s. The premise is stripped to the bone: a
Rating: 3.0★
Jonathan Glazer is not a director who makes things easy for himself, or for his audience. After a decade-long career directing music videos and commercials (most famously for Radiohead and Massive Attack), he moved into features with Sexy Beast (2000) and Birth (2004), two films that marked him as
Rating: 3.5★
Woody Allen has always been a filmmaker who divides opinion, and by 2008 he was navigating a peculiar phase of his career: a run of European productions that took him away from New York and planted him, somewhat unexpectedly, in the sunnier corners of the continent. Vicky Cristina Barcelona was
Rating: 4.0★
There are films that feel like they could only have been made at a very particular moment, and The Defiant Ones is one of them. Released in 1958, Stanley Kramer's film arrived at a point when the United States was visibly straining under the weight of its own
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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) at twenty-five: a look back at the film, its making and its legacy.
Rating: 3.5★
There are films that arrive with serious artistic intent, and then there are films that arrive wearing a Ronald Reagan rubber mask and sprinting straight at you. Point Break, released in the summer of 1991, falls very much into the second category. Written by W. Peter Iliff from a story
Rating: 3.5★
American independent horror has always had a habit of finding fresh angles on old anxieties, and It Follows (2014) arrived at a moment when the genre was largely occupied with found footage fatigue and franchise reboots. Shot on a modest budget across the quiet residential streets of suburban Detroit, the
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