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Despite a stacked cast and an intriguing set-up, Benjamin Caron’s twisty film eventually gets caught in its own web of cons

Overrated hack or underrated auteur? Fedor Tot explores the twisty filmmaker's output to mark the release of Knock at the Cabin

As another year draws to a close, our writers choose their favourite films, from daring debuts to boundary-breaking blockbusters

Will Smith's first "post-slap" performance elevates a sometimes-impressive, sometimes-misfiring drama from Antoine Fuqua

Unless you're already deeply invested in Clerks lore, you won't get much out of this intermittently fun but badly acted legacy sequel

To mark the release of Crimes of the Future, Steph Green sorts the body-obsessed auteur's vast filmography from worst to best...

As the latest take on Persuasion comes to Netflix, Steph Green highlights some of the author's finest screen adaptations to date

Ahead of the 94th Academy Awards, we look back at the Best Picture nominees and ask: which one deserves to take home the big prize?

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas are a couple caught in cat-and-mouse games in Adrian Lyne's return to the sultry genre he helped define

To coincide with the release of Moonfall, Rafaela Sales Ross looks back on the CG-obsessed director's explosive canon...

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