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Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener is inexcusably nasty – and yet I loved it
This story of an ex-white supremacist and a mixed-race woman tending to the grounds of a former plantation will make…
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This story of an ex-white supremacist and a mixed-race woman tending to the grounds of a former plantation will make…
ByAri Aster’s black comedy about malign maternal influence is full of cod-psychology that makes Psycho look like a Mother’s Day…
ByThis moving film takes on a truly unusual subject: a durable, unstated, non-sexual relationship between two men.
ByIn this sensitive debut about a mother who steals her son from care, AV Rockwell maps the contours of a…
ByThe wretchedly self-absorbed lead and her artist boyfriend are truly, absurdly awful. To what end?
ByThe American youth has lost its radical temper – Daniel Goldhaber’s film How to Blow Up a Pipeline is an…
ByThe director Dominik Moll is known for his tightly-plotted French thrillers. Now, he takes on an unsolved true crime.
ByPaul Mescal and Emily Watson bring inner darkness to this story of trauma in a tiny Irish town.
ByIn the horror films Pearl and Infinity Pool, the 29-year-old actor delivers two pleasingly unhinged performances.
ByRaine Allen-Miller’s visually dynamic debut turns a boy-meets-girl story into a joyous fantasy.
ByFrom Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey to The Gay Gatsby, the expiry of copyright on popular literature has seen…
ByThe anti-superhero film encapsulates our dissatisfied, lonely age with wit and originality.
ByHis 2018 play, set in a Yorkshire geriatric ward, is now a starry movie – with a pandemic-focused final act.
ByFrench critics have hailed Steven Spielberg’s belated coming-of-age movie as a “magisterial” and “Truffaldian” masterwork.
ByThis is a tender portrait of an innocent, intimate relationship between two best friends. So why must it veer into…
ByIn death as in life, the actress has been used, abused and commodified. Netflix’s film Blonde is just the latest…
ByThe director reunites Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell in a timeless film full of heartbreaking sunsets and superb knitwear.
ByBrendan Fraser’s performance as an obese shut-in could win him an Oscar, but this bleak, suffocating film is hard to…
ByThe director’s 34th feature – and the first to turn the camera on himself – ranks as one of his…
ByCinematic narratives of sexual assault are so often formulaic, clichéd and depressing. Sarah Polley’s film asks: what if there was…
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