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Lessons from the origins and marketing of the creepypasta horror film, by the youngest director in A24 history.
Lessons from the horror smash – and its 26-year-old writer-director’s journey from YouTube to making box office history.
The more emotional, and beautifully messy, instalment in the Knives Out series.
Lessons from the production and portrayals of race, gender, and politics in Paul Thomas Anderson’s film about revolutionaries and supremacists, parents and children.
Too meaningless to even be pretentious: a detailed autopsy of the two-part finale to the Mission Impossible series.
The inspirations and approach powering the show’s look and feel.
First-draft soap opera cosplaying as political commentary, with neither zeit nor geist.
A late-stage abomination with little thematic connection to anything that brought it into existence.
Dev Patel really said: Be the movie you want to see.
Creating tension with an elusive subject – and an out-of-this-world lead performance.
Why does this barely-tossed salad of 25-year-old film tropes, with no invigoration or distinct vision, even exist?
No idea what I’m watching, and having a blast. Plus this score slaps.
Unintentionally ironic parable about self-styled messianic tech bros.
A biting, meticulous flavour, new and strange to the palette.
Emotionally raw and stylishly shot, with beguiling choices of filmmaking and storytelling. A cast of outstanding actors, all giving interesting, surprising performances.
A stunning spy action flick whose real twist isn’t in its double-crossing.
Rare, unique, so much more than just a horror flick – and also, just a great horror flick.
Big respect for making me care about a bunch of white men in Texas shooting eachother.
Geometrically suspenseful, methodically haunting.
I still find him and the producer less gross than certain real-life American news outlets.
From script to staging: how a bestseller can be adapted.
The feeling when you’re in the hands of a director who knows what they’re doing.
As a political thriller, it’s somehow both lean and languid – and while this would be a compliment for almost any other genre, here perhaps it doesn’t always work in the film’s favour.
As a parody, this could have been fun. As satire, it… isn’t.
One has to imagine the book this is based on was better.
How are so many talented people involved in something so bad?
Scorcese’s The Wire: South Boston Nights
Movie references in Quentin Tarantino’s two-part revenge epic.