Rating: 4.0★
There are films that define a genre, and then there are films that redefine what a genre is even capable of. David Cronenberg's The Fly, released in 1986, sits firmly in the second category. Loosely based on George Langelaan's 1957 short story (itself previously adapted into
Rating: 4.0★
When Sony Pictures Animation released Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in 2018, it landed with the force of something genuinely new. The film collapsed the boundary between comic-book page and cinema screen in a way that felt less like a technical trick and more like a philosophical statement
Rating: 4.0★
Some sequels arrive with a quiet confidence, and some arrive with an F/A-18 Super Hornet at low altitude. Top Gun: Maverick is firmly in the second category. Thirty-six years after Tony Scott's original turned Tom Cruise into a global superstar and the United States Navy&
Rating: 4.0★
By 1971, San Francisco had already become one of the defining backdrops of late-1960s American anxiety: the Summer of Love had curdled, the Zodiac Killer had terrorised the Bay Area in very recent memory, and public trust in institutions was fraying at the edges. Into that climate arrived Dirty
Rating: 4.0★
Cormac McCarthy's 2006 novel The Road arrived already trailing a long shadow. A Pulitzer Prize winner that divided readers almost cleanly between those who found it a profound meditation on parenthood and extinction, and those who found its relentless grimness simply too much to bear, it was always
Rating: 4.0★
High school comedies have a way of cycling through trends, and for a while the prevailing one was the post-Superbad riff: a pair of socially marginal kids, a single chaotic night, and the messy business of working out who they actually are. Bottoms, released in the summer of 2023,
Rating: 4.0★
There are certain sporting figures from the 1990s who lodge themselves in the cultural memory not just because of what they achieved, but because of how they achieved it. Prince Naseem Hamed was one of those figures. The Sheffield-born featherweight, son of Yemeni immigrants, rose from the steel city&
Rating: 4.0★
There is a particular kind of short film that does not announce itself loudly, does not rely on spectacle or plot machinery, and simply asks you to sit with a feeling for a few minutes. Father and Daughter, made in 2000 by Dutch-British animator Michael Dudok de Wit, is
Rating: 4.0★
Tunisia's post-revolution years produced a wave of filmmaking that wrestled openly with what had been suppressed for decades: questions of religion, gender, state violence, and family. Four Daughters (2023) sits within that tradition while doing something altogether more unusual with it. The film begins from a real
Rating: 4.0★
The Shetland Islands sit at the very top of the British Isles, closer to Bergen than to Edinburgh, and they carry a particular kind of weather-beaten remoteness that feels almost mythological to anyone who has only seen them on a map. It is exactly the sort of place where
Rating: 4.0★
Andy Weir's 2021 novel Project Hail Mary arrived with a fair amount of goodwill already attached to it. Weir had, after all, written The Martian, a book that had been turned into a reasonably beloved Ridley Scott film, and readers of the new novel were almost immediately asking
Rating: 4.0★
Few war films carry the weight of historical testimony quite as heavily as Come and See. Released in 1985 and set during the Nazi occupation of Belarus in 1943, the film is rooted in events that were still raw memory for many Soviet citizens at the time of its production.
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