Horse Money is easily Pedro Costa’s greatest triumph to date in 2014 In many ways it is similar to his previous work—his Fontainhas trilogy (which has now been expanded beyond a trilogy because all of

The Big Country is a fitting name for Wyler’s audacious, expensive, open-air western. It is closer to Stevens’ Giant (1956) in terms of expanse (beyond actually)- especially in comparison with Boetticher’s work or Anthony Mann

The Incident almost plays out like a sociological study (or an exercise in sadism) more than a story. Two thugs, Martin Sheen (in his debut—that haunting laugh) and Tony Musante basically take a subway car

1917 is a major work from Sam Mendes- a director whose resume now seems even more fully rounded out The camerawork by Mendes and Roger Deakins is front and center in the praise (and oddly enough

There’s an interesting case to be made that In Vanda’s Room is a documentary. Much of Kiarostami’s work, including Close-Up, is similar. There’s actually a forward-moving narrative in Close-Up (though that isn’t the reason a

Between 1985 and 1989 there may have been no greater auteur in world cinema than Peter Greenaway. Certainly Kieslowski made Dekalog during this time, you have Cronenberg (The Fly, Dead Ringers), Gilliam (Brazil, The Adventures

The great achievement of Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men is that despite being based on a play, set in a total of three locations (with 98% of it coming in one room), and peppered with

Carlo Mirabella-Davis’s Swallow is one of the most promising debuts in recent years (this side of Columbus or Hereditary maybe). Haley Bennett plays Hunter— a housewife (and soon to be mother) dealing with (or rather

Decades before L.A. Confidential Curtis Hanson wrote this very clever screenplay It is a game of cat and mouse between the crafty, yet peculiar Elliot Gould character, and the menacing Christopher Plummer character. Gould’s character