Midnight Cowboy
Cowboy-cosplayer Joe Buck (Jon Voight) swaps Texas dishwasher work for New York sex work, only to discover the popularity of cowboys is on the Wayne. John Schlesinger’s Oscar-winning drama is […]
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Wuthering Heights (2011)
The glass-shattering Kate Bush song is reimagined as a class-shattering film in Andrea Arnold’s 2011 adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Bleak even by Brontë standards, this earthy, elemental retelling of the […]
All About My Mother
A nun, an actress and a sex worker walk into a Barcelona in All About My Mother, Pedro Almodóvar’s Oscar-winning drama from 1999. Another Spanish twist on his beloved Old […]
The Deep Blue Sea
Not to be confused with 1999 shark movie Deep Blue Sea, The Deep Blue Sea is a 2011 drama about a married woman (Rachel Weisz) who suffers a fate worse […]
The Brutalist
A Hungarian-Jewish architect (Adrien Brody) emigrates to Philadelphia in 1947, where he is hired by a wealthy industrialist (Guy Pearce) to design the city’s greatest landmark since the Liberty Bell […]
Monster (2023)
Monster is not to be confused with the homonymous Charlize Theron film which is about 20 years older and at least 20 times less Japanese. Like Rashomon meets Luce, this […]
Gosford Park
Aristocrats gather at a country house for a spot of pheasant plucking in this 2001 drama, until their shooting weekend becomes a poisoning investigation. Directed by Robert Altman, this 1930s […]
One Life
One Life is the story of Kindertransport hero Nicholas Winton (Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn), who helped rescue hundreds of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia then didn’t bother telling anyone […]
Tár
Cate Blanchett plays accomplished yet manipulative conductor Lydia Tár, because naming her Ava would have been too ridiculous. They should have called it Miss Conduct. Despite its 15 rating for […]
Women Talking
Surprisingly for a year when Avatar 2 is up for Best Picture, Don’t Worry Darling has been snubbed by the Academy, though it does share eerie similarities with Oscar nominee […]
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