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Opening in 1999, with its youthful characters full of optimism on the eve of the millennium, Mountains May Depart finds Jia Zhangke once again taking the mea... Read more »

Exploring a great filmmaker’s body of work for the first time can be a daunting prospect. Where do you start with someone like Éric Rohmer, who ... Read more »

If Beale Street Could Talk is only the second screen adaptation of James Baldwin’s work, following an obscure French take on the same novel in 1998, an... Read more »

Samuel Maoz will never forget his darkest hour. As a teenager, his daughter had developed an unfortunate habit of oversleeping and being late for school, and... Read more »

From its title to its intriguing opening scenes, Cook F**k Kill is a film that demands the viewer's attention. Following a prologue in which a Greek Chorus o... Read more »

When Robin Campillo collected the Grand Prix at Cannes last May for 120 BPM, it marked the end of a very long road for the director. In 1992, at the age of 3... Read more »

If you’re going to make a movie about a pig, there are a few ground rules to follow. Your porcine protagonist should be cute, it should talk, and it sh... Read more »

Full Time opens in the half-light of the early morning, with the credits unfurling over the slumbering form of Julie (Laure Calamy). The camera is inches fro... Read more »

We are told all we need to know about Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) within the opening scenes of Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread. As we watch hi... Read more »

It's impossible to predict what a new Claire Denis film will be like – you just know it's going to be something special. After plunging us into the dep... Read more »

The cinema of Alfonso Cuarón is the cinema of immersion. His long takes in Children of Men plunged the audience into the middle of a war zone, while t... Read more »

How do you make art that illuminates past atrocities? How do you do so in a country that seems determined to forget such dark periods of their history? How d... Read more »

Talking to Joanna Hogg about The Souvenir is an unusual experience. For most viewers, this film will feel like a singular and perfectly crafted gem, charting... Read more »

What attracted Edward Norton to Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn and drove him to spend two decades trying to realise his film adaptation? It&rsqu... Read more »

There are many obstacles standing in the way of a first-time filmmaker, but the biggest challenge is often simply getting people to watch your film. After di... Read more »

The fact that Nicole Holofcener has named her seventh film You Hurt My Feelings makes complete sense – hurt feelings are this filmmaker’s stock-i... Read more »

More than three decades have passed since Victor Erice's The Quince Tree Sun, and unsurprisingly his first feature since that entrancing documentary fro... Read more »

When you churn out features with François Ozon's regularity, it’s inevitable you can sometimes be caught coasting. The Crime is Mine is a fun bu... Read more »

If you thought your last glimpse of Emmanuelle Riva would be as the ailing woman in Michael Haneke's Amour, then you're in for a surprise with Lost in Paris.... Read more »

Veronica Lake might not be the first actress you'd think of to play a no-nonsense ranch owner, but she is outstanding in Ramrod, which was directed by her th... Read more »

Joanna Hogg has evolved as an artist with every film she had made, but her fourth feature is a memoir of her first faltering steps as a director and the toxi... Read more »

Halfway through The Worst Person in the World, Julie (the mesmerising Renate Reinsve) freezes time, taking the opportunity to run through the streets of Oslo... Read more »

Recent Jafar Panahi films have been concerned with boundaries, from testing the restrictions imposed on his artistry by the Iranian authorities, to exploring... Read more »

Life in plastic is fantastic for the residents of Barbie Land, the vividly realised location where we spend the opening third of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie.... Read more »

It felt like something was missing when Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac was released in 2014. The director’s extravagant two-part epic following th... Read more »

How seriously should we take Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built? The film will undoubtedly be dismissed by many as a cheap act of trolling from... Read more »

Following the ghostly text messages that Kristen Stewart received in Personal Shopper, Olivier Assayas's Non-Fiction is another contemplation of our relation... Read more »

It’s hard to succinctly describe what Shirley is, but it most assuredly isn’t a biopic. Josephine Decker and screenwriter Sarah Gubbins (adapting... Read more »

Nine-year-old Ida (Rakel Lenora Fløttum), the central character in Eskil Vogt's The Innocents, has a cherubic face, but those features can so eas... Read more »

No filmmaker is more plugged in to the current moment than Radu Jude. His 2021 film Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn was made at the height of the pandemic, an... Read more »