After 20 years and 17 million copies sold, the fifth instalment of Rockstar Games’ notorious game series remains one its most filmic, drawing inspiration from Get Carter, Bullitt, Casino and Boyz n ...
Pile up your Halloween watchlist with some of the finest horror movies of the 2020s so far. The decade began with a pandemic. A few smaller, socially distanced productions, like Rob Savage’s Host and ...
From Sense & Sensibility to Hulk... On his 70th birthday, we plot a beginner’s path through the shape-shifting work of Taiwanese director Ang Lee.
Mati Diop skilfully blurs nonfiction and fantasy as the director charts the return of 26 royal artefacts looted from Dahomey during the French colonial invasion in the late 19th century.
Jacques Audiard’s story of a Mexican cartel leader who fakes their own death to conceal a gender transition is anything but subtle, but it’s never boring.
South Korean cinema saw an explosion of creativity in the 1950s and 60s, but the films weren’t as widely exported as those of the Japanese golden age. Begin your exploration with this handful of ...
Upon its initial UK release, our critic praised John Carpenter’s third feature as “one of the cinema's most perfectly engineered devices for saying ‘Boo!’” ...
The winning films explore a fascinating breadth of themes and stories, with best film going to Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail.
A superb Daniel Craig drinks and dopes his days away in Mexico and becomes besotted with a young man in Guadagnino’s poetic reinvention of Burroughs’ grimy, semi-autobiographical novel.
Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh have an undeniable chemistry, but this time-shifting story of marriage and terminal illness never feels grounded in real life.
A new animated documentary presents the life of musician Pharrell Williams in an enjoyable and surprising Lego package.
The idea that New Zealand films could attract global success was on the ascendant in the 80s and 90s, after the New Zealand Film Commission had been established and highly distinctive films such as ...