It frequently feels like a self-admiring work intoxicated with its own style and mood, but this chic arthouse vampire indie, shot in the Persian language, offers a taste of honey amid the spillage of blood.
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It frequently feels like a self-admiring work intoxicated with its own style and mood, but this chic arthouse vampire indie, shot in the Persian language, offers a taste of honey amid the spillage of blood.
Hittmanโs second feature is a naturalistic, and at times, sensual work about a young man seeking self-discovery through experimentation with drugs and sex with older men.
An eccentric extended family comes to terms with fraught and awkward relationships in this heartfelt comedy by Noah Baumbach.ย ย ย
One of Scorseseโs greatest accomplishmentsโan astonishing character study of the rise and fall of a world champion middleweight boxer that is also an acting and editing masterclass.
Scorseseโs underappreciated 3-hour crime epic, about a high-end Las Vegas casino being run by an organised crime syndicate, is one of his most riveting films.
A cultural touchstone in modern American cinema, Spike Leeโs breakthrough tell-it-as-it-is treatment of racism is even more sobering to view more than 30 years later.
Sofia Coppolaโs latest is a disquieting look at gender politics with a strong Southern Gothic undercurrent of sexual tension.
Sofia Coppola returns to contemporary urban filmmaking in this charming indie about marriages and affairs as a young mother and her womanising father try to make sense of the trajectory of their current lives.
A gentle if slight film from Sofia Coppola that sees her going for a low-key character study of a burned-out Hollywood actor.
An empty film with shallow characters, this is Sofia Coppola’s worst hour as a filmmaker.