Rating: 3.0★
There are films that matter because of what they are, and there are films that matter because of what they started. Nanook of the North belongs firmly to the second category. Released in 1922 and produced under the banner of the French trading company Les Frères Revillon, it is widely
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: 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
Country Italy
There is a lovely, aching idea at the heart of The Clouds of Odessa, and it is almost enough to carry the film on its own. Luca Arcangeli's thirteen-minute animated short follows a Ukrainian film-maker dreaming of a love story she longs to put on screen
Rating: 3.0★
Released in 2002, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron arrived at an interesting crossroads for DreamWorks Animation. The studio had spent the previous few years carving out its identity in opposition to Disney, leaning on irreverence, celebrity voices and knowing winks to the audience. Spirit is none of those things. Co-
Country Bermuda
There is a version of Bermuda that exists almost entirely on postcards, all pink beaches and pastel calm, and part of what makes Bermuda Riots Are Different worthwhile is how firmly it shoves that image aside. Co-directed by Alyson Thompson and Matt Mead, this six-minute documentary short digs
Country United Kingdom
There is a particular pleasure in a short film that knows exactly what it is and gets on with it, and Leah Vlemmiks's Agnes is one of those. It is a slight thing, story-wise, but it is made and performed with such care that I came away
Rating: 3.0★
Taylor Swift occupies a peculiar position in contemporary culture: she is one of the most commercially successful recording artists on the planet, a figure whose every public move generates column inches, and yet she has remained, for years, genuinely difficult to read as a private person. Miss Americana, released on
Rating: 3.0★
Japanese cinema at the turn of the millennium was producing some of the most formally adventurous and commercially awkward work anywhere in the world, and The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001) sits near the extreme end of that spectrum. It is, on paper, a remake of the South Korean black
Rating: 3.0★
Terence Davies is one of British cinema's most singular voices, a filmmaker whose work sits at the uncomfortable crossroads of memory, faith, class and longing. Born and raised in Liverpool, he spent the early part of his career turning the landscapes and emotional textures of his childhood into
Rating: 3.0★
Spike Lee arrived at Inside Man in 2006 as something of a surprise package: a studio thriller from a filmmaker whose reputation had been built on personal, politically charged work, from the simmering tensions of Do the Right Thing to the jazz elegy of Mo' Better Blues. For those
Country United Kingdom
There is a lot to admire in Laundreams, and my only real complaint is that there isn't more of it. Amber Gadd and Evie Ward-Drummond's debut short, set almost entirely inside a working Sheffield laundrette, is a warm, nicely made little thing with a real
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