Among the standout films that played at this year’s Cannes Film Festival was The Dreamed Adventure, which earned Valeska Grisebach the Jury Prize and marked the long-awaited return of one of contemporary European cinema’s most distinctive voices. Set in Svilengrad, a Bulgarian town on the border with Turkey and…

In Michael Sarnoski’s The Death of Robin Hood, the titular outlaw of English folklore spends his final years wandering the moors of 13th-century Britain, trying to shed the legend he helped foster and the seemingly legion of sworn enemies he’s created over his lifetime — finding little success…

Jaws: the New Hollywood movie that began to end them all by creating summer blockbusters, the origin point for practically every bad urban legend about both real sharks and the malfunctioning mechanical one at the center of its production that you’ve ever heard — just where did that…

Although cinema is at its best when it gleefully breaks the rules, some operating procedures need to be in place when you embark upon an airplane-crash disaster movie — or a schlocky shark slasher for that matter. When up in the air and suddenly urged to fasten your…

Ben Wheatley has done it all. From humble beginnings with killer indies like Down Terrace and Kill List to Hollywood mega-productions like Rebecca and The Meg 2, there’s almost no stone left unturned for the British filmmaker. Having even dipped into trippy horror surrealism with A Field in…

Liminal spaces are all the rage these days. You can’t scroll for five minutes on any given social media app without seeing an image or video depicting a room that seemingly goes on forever. These are usually malls or children’s playplaces; we love our nostalgia, but a liminal…

I was driving to see the cinema’s latest love story and stopped at a red light. On an empty street, on a cloudless night, I found myself making a U-turn. It wasn’t just that I sensed the indie I was going to was factory-made. It wasn’t that it…

A Note on Selection and Organization Criteria The films in our canon were categorized according to the year of their U.S. theatrical release and the distributor behind it — except in cases where a.) the time between the film’s international release and its U.S. one exceeded five years, or b.) the film never received any…