M Categories Commentary Ruairí McCann Martin Eden: a song of experience cut on the lathe of history Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden fuses avant-garde methods with classical filmmaking form for a radical, accessible high drama.
L Categories Commentary Tom Nel Locke and analogues of development Urbanism and psychology collide in a tale of tumultuous personal progress.
A Categories Commentary Edward Weech A Quiet Place: a heart to love, and courage to make it known Against a backdrop of civilisational collapse, John Krasinski's passion project reflects upon the permanent things underlying our shared lives.
T Categories Commentary Ruairí McCann The people’s art: Wakaliwood and the action movie as a democratised working-class expression Crazy World, the newest film from Uganda’s Wakaliwood studio, entrenches them as one of the most exciting loci of contemporary cinema.
B Categories Commentary Katy D'Avella Beyond the gaze: the radical desire of Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma's film blends art and ecstasy and reaches towards utopia.
T Categories Commentary David G. Hughes The anxiety of influence and The Assassination of Jesse James, analogous to our cultural moment A western that speaks to a culture war torn between the charismatic, problematic past and the ambitious, revisionist present.
F Categories Commentary Savina Petkova Fairy-tale feminism: recalling female agency in The Swan Princess Sabotaged and overshadowed by a resurgent Disney Animation, this forgotten fairy-tale empowered at least one person.
W Categories Commentary Bobby Vogel What I hate, that I do: thoughts on Wobble Palace Technology and inner life collide—and unite—in Eugene Kotlyarenko's Wobble Palace.
A Categories Commentary Patrick Preziosi Ageing at the movies: The Irishman, Welcome to Marwen, and The Mule Do the Old Guard of American filmmakers have anything left to say? More than most, it turns out.
T Categories Commentary Bobby Vogel The eclipse of a face: on Zoey Dutch and Before I Fall Faces tell us what we need to know in Ry Russo-Young's Before I Fall.
L Categories Commentary Edward Weech Light versus dark: truth and transcendence in True Detective There's hidden psychology, theology, and philosophy in this unique Southern Gothic serial.
A Categories Commentary David G. Hughes A touch of zen and violence: on the playful fantasy of Cliff Booth As moral panic around fantasy violence flares up, Quentin Tarantino argues for a philosophy of cathartic, ethical screen violence via the charisma of Brad Pitt.
& Categories Commentary George Turner “Thy shall bear witness!”: a case for the continued admiration of silent cinema In a time of overwhelming and oppressive "realism" on screen, it's worth looking back at the creative virtues of silent cinema.
C Categories Commentary David G. Hughes Cynical cinema criticism, a new puritanism: a polemic on where we are Cinema has maintained a liberating anti-Puritan ethos since its conception, but how long can that last in today's febrile film culture?
A Categories Commentary Benjamin Brown Archives of pain: Shoah, a retrospective reappraisal A close look at Claude Lanzmann's harrowing and seminal nine-hour Holocaust documentary.
