film reviews

The increasingly versatile New York-based writer-director creates a very grounded, textured thriller set in Gotham in the early 1980s.

The latest pared-down picture from the sixtysomething Belgian brothers is realism at its very best.

As the second of the Kiwi director's Tolkien trilogies ends, a look back at the scope and impact of this epic body of work.

When the creative team behind the movie that made you want to be a director reunites 20 years on, how high should your expectations be?

Its heady seriousness and three-hour running time make this year's Palme d'Or winner a daunting prospect, but the film holds slow-burning pleasures.

A film by a great director about the artistic struggles of a brilliant painter provides inspiration and solace to a rising independent filmmaker.

The latest (problematic) biblical epic is deconstructed on an epic scale.

At his second attempt, the Brooklyn director writes about one of the Tales of the Four Seasons, plus a deal with the devil and Kelsey Grammer sitcoms.

One of Thomas Pynchon's novels is finally brought to the big screen, but can even of the greatest American cinematic visionaries do it justice?

The Swedish documentary director's latest archival film tackles the topic of breaking free from colonial bonds, but its approach is problematic.

The new directorial effort by one of the funniest men in Hollywood goes beyond humor to reach something personal, and in that lies its greatness.

The French actor-turned-director's latest fuses the police procedural with an off-kilter sex comedy in a surprising (and oddly life-affirming) way.