By Matt Thrift
Not even a Schwarzenegger-Chan showdown is enough to salvage this unfathomably dire action folly.
By Matt Thrift
The cult director discusses his long-awaited return to mainstream filmmaking with Color Out of Space.
By Matt Thrift
Fiammetta Profili reflects on her time working with Federico Fellini during his final decade.
By Matt Thrift
Noah Baumbach delivers what just might be his masterpiece with this bitterly funny divorce drama.
By Matt Thrift
New model, same result: Cameron, Schwarzenegger and Hamilton reunite for this serviceable belated sequel to T2.
By Matt Thrift
The Ad Astra director on how Brad Pitt helped him to make the sprawling sci-fi opus he had inside his head.
By Matt Thrift
An epic in the literal sense of the world. Mariano Llinás goes long with this thrilling paean to genre cinema through the ages.
By Matt Thrift
One of Germany’s most important living artists is the subject of this dud biography from Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.
By Matt Thrift
Keane Reeves’ ‘excommunicado’ protagonist wages a one-man war in this ante-upping threequel.
By Matt Thrift
Nicholas Hoult stars in this bland literary biopic of the life of Lord of the Rings scribe JRR Tolkien.
By Matt Thrift
Ralph Fiennes directs this staid biography of ballet maestro and political dissident, Rudolf Nureyev.
By Matt Thrift
The South Korean maestro talks literary inspiration and his mysterious new psychodrama, Burning.
By Matt Thrift
A new Blu-ray edition provides an opportunity to revisit Otto Preminger’s slyly subversive noir masterpiece.
By Matt Thrift
Hu Bo’s search for hope and humanity in present-day China is a monumental debut tinged with tragedy.
By Matt Thrift
This eight-hour epic from Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing chronicles one of the worst atrocities in human history.
By Matt Thrift
Turkey’s foremost dramatist returns with his most imposing and impressive film to date.
By Matt Thrift
Some of the strongest emerging voices in world cinema took centre stage at the Polish festival’s 18th edition.
By Matt Thrift
This wonderful new book is the most comprehensive overview of the filmmaker’s life and career to date.
By Matt Thrift
The prolific independent filmmaker reflects on his career ahead of Henry Fool’s 20th anniversary.
By Matt Thrift
It took the best part of a decade to bring Zama to the big screen. Its writer/director tells us about her epic journey.
By Matt Thrift
Formal ambition aside, there’s nothing out of the ordinary about Steven Soderbergh’s iPhone psychodrama.
By Matt Thrift
Duncan Jones’ spiritual sequel to Moon is a neon-drenched nightmare – and not in the way anyone intended.
By Matt Thrift
Steven Soderbergh’s unconventional iPhone movie is one of his strangest offerings to date.
By Matt Thrift
Guillermo del Toro’s latest is a fairy tale for grown-ups with a cinephile twist – it may be his most perfect confection to date.
By Matt Thrift
The screen icon speaks candidly about her remarkable career, and her complicated relationship with the late Swedish master.
By Matt Thrift
The legendary British director of Deliverance, Excalibur and Zardoz looks back over his extraordinary career.
By Matt Thrift
The alchemist behind Fight Club and Zodiac discusses his newest true crime saga, the Netflix Original series MINDHUNTER.
By Matt Thrift
A curious artistic experiment amounts to little more than that in this so-so Vincent Van Gogh biopic.
By Matt Thrift
Director Bertrand Tavernier waxes lyrical about the great and the good of French cinema in this wonderful documentary.
By Matt Thrift
The American director discusses his long-awaited return to feature filmmaking with Logan Lucky.
By Matt Thrift
The director’s astonishing 1969 film was shown from the only known 35mm print in existence.
By Matt Thrift
Charlize Theron blasts her way through Cold War-era Berlin in this glib actioner from John Wick’s David Leitch.
By Matt Thrift
Poland’s biggest arthouse extravaganza returns with a special tribute to Jacques Rivette.
By Matt Thrift
The horror maestro reflects on his unique and remarkable career in this previously unpublished interview.
By Matt Thrift
How many of these pulse-quickening set pieces have you seen?
By Matt Thrift
Jessica Chastain takes it to The Man in this House of Cards-y drama about political lobbying.
By Matt Thrift
The director has been producing casual masterpieces since 1964.
By Matt Thrift
James Gray channels Joseph Conrad in this immaculately-crafted but lacklustre epic.
By Matt Thrift
We take an exhaustive look back at the ups and downs of this iconic movie simian.
By Matt Thrift
The outspoken Dutch filmmaker discusses his triumphant return to cinema, Elle.
By Matt Thrift
Though not as svelte as before, Chad Stahelski and Keanu Reeves still deliver big with this awesome action-ballet.
By Matt Thrift
The veteran Hollywood maverick talks Dog Eat Dog, Scorsese and the challenges of modern moviemaking.
By Matt Thrift
This year’s AFF ended with an eye-popping cinematic spectacle – a film unseen for 50 years.
By Matt Thrift
Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson and a Wim Wenders retrospective are among the highlights of this year’s AFF.
By Matt Thrift
With the Spanish maestro back in action we take a look back at his formative years.
By Matt Thrift
The Polish festival once again served up the best world cinema has to offer, including a contender for film of the year.
By Matt Thrift
The true greatness of James Cameron’s record-breaking space opera is not in its conception but its execution.
By Matt Thrift
A David Lynch classic and Pedro Almodóvar’s favourite film are among the highlights of this year’s programme.
By Matt Thrift
The Thai master from the little town of Khon Kaen on the movies and directors that inspired him.
By Matt Thrift
Ciro Guerra’s psychedelic Amazonian odyssey is one of year’s most potent and strikingly original films.
By Matt Thrift
The story of how a trio of legendary filmmakers became entranced by the Emerald Isle.
By Matt Thrift
A collection of 60 unforgettable declarations of love from the movies to get you in the mood this Valentine’s Day.
By Matt Thrift
Dirty Grandpa may be an indefensible dud, but the actor’s recent output is nowhere near as bad as everyone seems to think.
By Matt Thrift
Robert De Niro hits an all-time low alongside Zac Efron in this insufferable road trip comedy.
By Matt Thrift
Meet the Taiwanese master who makes gorgeous movies and home-made Samurai swords.
By Matt Thrift
There’s something majorly fishy about this high seas folk tale – and it’s not the enormous whale that shipwrecks Chris Hemsworth.
By Matt Thrift
Alexsey German’s 15-years-in-the-making political allegory is a visceral, sensory, jaw-dropping masterpiece.
By Matt Thrift
Albert Maysles’ penultimate film suggests that rabid consumerism can be refined and charming.
By Matt Thrift
A sappy Al Pacino vehicle reviewed via the medium of Heat's iconic coffee shop tête-à-tête.
By Matt Thrift
Exposition and naff CG fight for supremacy in this YA sci-fi sequel starring a seemingly unengaged Shailene Woodley.
By Matt Thrift
The F-bombs fly in our interview with the Aussie character actor who appears in Starred Up.
By Matt Thrift
A magnetic Christian Bale adds much-needed gravitas to this otherwise conventional blue-collar revenge saga.
By Matt Thrift
Restored, re-released and resplendent. David Lean’s 1962 historical epic is back, and better than ever.
By Matt Thrift
Hungarian colossus Béla Tarr’s ‘last film’ is a magnificent, towering achievement.
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