Todd Phillips mimics the films of Martin Scorsese to get a kick out of bad behaviour without excusing it.
Read MoreBoots Riley’s economic and racial satire is ambitious yet unfocused, and ultimately undone by its ideological preoccupations.
Read MoreThis is a quiet drama with fabulous performances and an uncanny attention to detail.
Read MoreSicario: Day of the Soldado is an unnecessary sequel and a step-down from its predecessor, but it’s still an effective action film and a complex look at the drug war.
Read MoreDiverting like a childhood game, but also essentially meaningless.
Read MoreA modest crime thriller that does just enough with its well-worn genre elements.
Read MoreIgnore the faux-transgressive humour. Deadpool 2 is as tired and generic a superhero film as you can get.
Read MoreWhile Fast Company is a radical departure for Cronenberg, it’s also a confidently-made and satisfying B-movie about drag racing.
Read MoreThis blend of documentary and fiction about an injured rodeo rider is one of the best American indies of recent years.
Read MoreBrigsby Bear plays like a smash-up between Be Kind, Rewind and Room, although it’s not half as interesting as that bizarre remix sounds.
Read MoreA legitimately good movie in addition to being a funny and clever one.
Read MoreLynne Ramsay's latest is a tedious bore that wastes a great actor and indulges in the worst impulses of art-film storytelling.
Read MoreShivers proves Cronenberg capable of conjuring conventionally-appealing entertainment that still has the capacity to shock with its imagery and dazzle with its ideas.
Read MoreIt Comes at Night is often beautiful and atmospheric and interesting, but it is not scary and it is not exciting.
Read MoreSecret Weapons is a failed experiment, but like most failed experiments, the recipe for future success is present in its dysfunction.
Read MoreDisgusting, ungainly, and offensive to every shred of decency a person may have. But also extremely funny.
Read MoreEx Machina was a promising debut and a superior work of science-fiction, but Annihilation is on a whole other level.
Read MoreIf you were charmed by the adventures of Kiki and Chihiro and Mei and Satsuki in the films of Studio Ghibli, the adventure of Mary and the cat Tib will delight you.
Read MoreCrimes of the Future is a clear progression of the experimental filmmaking of Stereo and a stepping-stone towards the sexual body horror of Shivers.
Read MoreFaces Places is a moving film and worth celebrating, if only for the fact that at almost-90, Agnès Varda hasn't slowed down.
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