Now in his eighties, Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg has gotten understandably reflective, his films having a self-referential quality that wasn’t quite apparent in Videodrome or Scanners. In The Shrouds, he takes his leading man, veteran French actor VincentRead Full Review

After I watched Fruitvale Station in 2013, I knew that first-time director Ryan Coogler was a genuine talent, but I’ll confess that I couldn’t predict at that time the degree to which he was the heir apparentRead Full Review

The Ballad of Wallis Island is a feature-length adaptation of a short film from 2007. For better and worse, it shows. Both films feature the actors Tim Key and Tom Basden, and both were directedRead Full Review

The Friend is a film that knows all about the tentpole story beats of the dog movie. It understands – almost too well – the narrative premise of dog-as-metaphor. The film is based on aRead Full Review