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: 3.5★
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: 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
Rating: 3.5★
By 1882, Jesse James was already more legend than man. Twenty years of dime novels, newspaper headlines and outright fabrication had turned a Missouri bank robber into something approaching a folk hero, and the circumstances of his death, shot in the back of the head by a trusted associate, only
Rating: 3.5★
Few directorial debuts carry quite the same weight of genre history as The Bird with the Crystal Plumage. Released in 1970, the film arrived at a moment when Italian popular cinema was churning out Spaghetti Westerns and crime thrillers at a furious pace, but Dario Argento's first feature
Rating: 3.5★
Paolo Sorrentino arrived at Youth in 2015 as one of European cinema's most distinctive voices, fresh from the international success of The Great Beauty, which had taken the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2014. Where that earlier picture roamed the ruins and remnants of Rome,
Rating: 3.5★
By 1990, RoboCop had already earned its place as one of the more pointed pieces of science fiction cinema to come out of the previous decade. Paul Verhoeven's 1987 original was a film that used the Detroit crime wave, the rise of corporate privatisation, and Reagan-era excess
Rating: 3.5★
Stephen King's relationship with cinema is a long and uneven one. For every faithful adaptation that captures the specific flavour of dread he does so well on the page, there are several that miss the point entirely, reducing his work to either slick gore or toothless television fare.
Rating: 3.5★
Jeffrey Eugenides published his debut novel The Virgin Suicides in 1993 to considerable critical attention, praised for its unusual collective narration and its unflinching portrait of suburban American grief. It took a few years to make the journey to the screen, but when it did, the adaptation landed in the
Rating: 3.5★
By the early 2000s, Walt Disney Feature Animation was in an odd position. The so-called Disney Renaissance, that extraordinary run of films from The Little Mermaid through to Mulan, had wound down, and the studio was feeling its way forward with a string of pictures that never quite managed
Rating: 3.5★
There are animated films that arrive, do their job, and are more or less forgotten within a generation. Then there are the ones that come embedded in a culture so thoroughly that even people who have never sat down and actually watched them feel they already know them. The Twelve
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