The Eerie Beauty of ‘Flow’ Gints Zilbalodis’s beautiful dystopian story feels like the start of a new era in cinema, or at least the invitation to one. Roy Wayne Meredith III 4 Dec 2024 · 5 min read
Games and Thrones The real history of the era portrayed in Gladiator II is much more interesting, tumultuous, and murderous than Scott’s simpleminded yarn. Charlotte Allen 4 Dec 2024 · 13 min read
Savage Entertainment A new version of Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione’s notorious 1979 film ‘Caligula’ provides a valuable record of one of the most fascinating disasters in cinema history. Jaspreet Singh Boparai 14 Nov 2024 · 30 min read
Megalopolis: Bloated, Outré—and Brilliant Like a Hieronymus Bosch painting, it’s chaos alright—but it’s a dazzling chaos. Ralph Leonard 13 Nov 2024 · 8 min read
All Hail the New Flesh For all its decorative asides about predatory male sexuality, ‘The Substance’ is most coherently understood as a morality tale about the folly of feminist illusions. Charlotte Allen 1 Nov 2024 · 11 min read
Sonny Side Up Al Pacino’s personal life has been a bit of a train wreck, but his new memoir leaves no doubt that acting has been the most important thing in his life. Kevin Mims 28 Oct 2024 · 21 min read
A Joke Too Far? Todd Phillips’s unfairly reviled sequel raises interesting questions about the artistic licence auteurs take with well-known properties. Allan Stratton 24 Oct 2024 · 11 min read
Blonde on Blonde Andrew Dominik’s much-maligned film about the life and death of a screen icon claws through the sentimental myth-making in search of terrible truths. Charlotte Allen 18 Oct 2024 · 32 min read
Tales of Creation and Adaptation The journey of two novels from mind to page to silver screen. Allan Stratton 14 Oct 2024 · 22 min read
A Filmmaker in Spite of Himself Sacha Guitry disdained cinema as an art form, but with a slew of recent Blu-ray releases, his acidic comedies are finally receiving the attention they deserve. Jaspreet Singh Boparai 28 Aug 2024 · 22 min read
Killing for a Quiet Life John Krasinski’s dystopian horror trilogy imagines a biblical plague visited on the din of modernity. Thomas Larson 15 Aug 2024 · 7 min read
Roman Polanski’s ‘Chinatown’ Fifty Years On Chinatown is noir at its bleakest, yet most stylish. Ralph Leonard 13 Aug 2024 · 9 min read
Texas Porn Star Massacres Ti West’s clever and original ‘X’ trilogy is elevated postmodern horror at its finest and its director’s best work to date. Allan Stratton 24 Jul 2024 · 12 min read
Blood, Sweat, and Gasoline The story of Hollywood’s most unlikely blockbuster franchise, Mad Max. Allan Stratton 5 Jun 2024 · 21 min read
A History of Stunts Ryan Gosling’s new film is a love letter to an under-appreciated art. Allan Stratton 17 May 2024 · 9 min read
