Nightmare Alley is a stunning film noir about a marvellously successful bastard and his dreadful comeuppance.
Read MoreThe Most Dangerous Game is a layered, atmospheric pre-Code Hollywood horror-adventure.
Read MoreLeo Gabriadze’s found-footage horror movie about cyberbullying reinvents the slasher for the digital age.
Read MoreZack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is a thematically and visually rich film that takes its place among the best Batman and Superman stories of the last few decades.
Read MoreIda Lupino’s tense film noir anticipates later horror movies in its portrait of uncompromising evil.
Read MoreCarl Franklin’s neo-noir is fast, tense, and quietly revealing about how people are and the way the world works.
Read MoreJohn Frankenheimer’s Seconds deconstructs America in the 1960s and exposes the paranoia and anxieties bubbling under the surface of American culture.
Read MoreFor all its fantasy adventure tropes and CGI animation conventions, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole has all the formal tics and thematic obsessions of a Snyder film.
Read MoreA thought-provoking drama about Christian persecution in Nero’s Rome.
Read MoreZack Snyder’s 300 is a heavy metal fever dream and a spellbinding work of comic book mythmaking.
Read MoreZack Snyder’s explosive debut is arguably the finest zombie movie ever made.
Read MoreChristian Gudegast’s 2018 action thriller succeeds by blatantly ripping off Michael Mann’s Heat.
Read MoreFritz Lang’s underappreciated Nazi thriller contains rich atmosphere and a potent blend of noir and wartime elements.
Read MoreJustin Benson and Aaron Scott Moorhead’s slow-burn horror film plays like a low-budget, earnest counterpoint to The Cabin in the Woods.
Read MoreWes Craven’s controversial classic horror film uses unrefined formal techniques and realistic content to unsettle viewers and examine the horrors of bloodlust.
Read MoreFeaturing horror legend Christopher Lee and plenty of Gothic atmosphere, this tale of witchcraft in a New England town is a spooky though backward-looking treat.
Read MoreThe Fog is a compelling mood piece, with atmospheric scares and great low-budget special effects.
Read MoreMillennium Actress is a beautiful examination of the relationships between actors and the movies they make, and viewers and the movies they watch.
Read MoreJohn Sturges’ Western plays like a minor variation of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
Read MoreTwenty years later, David Gordon Green’s debut feature George Washington remains a beautiful cinematic memory.
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