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May, 2022
One small step: ‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood’ and ‘Deep Water’
Richard Linklater’s rotoscoped film evokes the optimism of late-1960s America, while Patricia Highsmith’s thriller gets another disappointing adaptation
April, 2022
Maturity breach: ‘The Duke’ and ‘Big Bug’
While Roger Michell’s final film pairs Jim Broadbent with Helen Mirren in a dignified, grown-up cinema, Jean-Pierre Jeunet returns with a juvenile sci-fi sex-comedy
March, 2022
Hidden pockets: ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ and ‘The House’
Jasmila Žbanić’s Oscar-nominated portrayal of the ethnic cleansing in Srebrenica, and an unsettling Netflix stop-motion animation anthology
February, 2022
The princess and the pea soup: ‘Spencer’
Pablo Larraín’s laboured Princess Diana biopic is a future camp classic
December, 2021
The Bond market: ‘Dune’ and ‘No Time To Die’
Blockbuster season begins with a middling 007 and a must-see sci-fi epic
November, 2021
Ranch dressing: ‘The Power of the Dog’
Jane Campion’s new film takes to a 1920s Montana ranch for its story of repressed sexuality
October, 2021
An eye on the outlier: ‘Nitram’
Justin Kurzel’s biopic of the Port Arthur killer is a warning on suburban neglect and gun control
October, 2021
The life solipsistic: ‘The French Dispatch’
Wes Anderson’s film about a New Yorker–style magazine is simultaneously trivial and exhausting
September, 2021
True to form: ‘No Sudden Move’
Steven Soderbergh’s Detroit crime movie is another formal experiment with commercial trappings
August, 2021
Forebodings and a funeral: ‘Shiva Baby’
Emma Seligman’s funny but tense film is a triumph of writing and performance over spectacle