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A child's toy monkey with cymbals frozen mid-clap in blue stage light

The Monkey: Osgood Perkins' Stephen King Mechanism

Osgood Perkins' follow-up to Longlegs is a better film than the hype-fatigue has let on. An argument for the adaptation that does not care about the source material.

Marcus Vell·30 Sep·5 min

A suburban American living room with heavy curtains drawn against bright midday light

Film

Kinds of Kindness: Lanthimos Unplugged

A year on from Lanthimos' three-part anthology, the film reads cleaner than the reviews made it sound. An argument for what happens when a director stops worrying about being liked.

Lena Ashworth·20 Aug·5 min

An English country manor photographed at dusk, the gardens immaculately clipped

Film

Saltburn: A Thin Reading of the English Country House

Emerald Fennell's second feature wants to be a class-war satire and a Brideshead pastiche and a body-horror provocation. It pulls off one of the three, sometimes two.

Marcus Vell·8 Mar·5 min