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Sebastian Schipper, Germany, 2015 A single take capturing a heist in real time.  What could have been pure novelty – however e...

Fred M Wilcox, 1956, USA “Monsters, John… Monsters from the Id!” Taking smartly and happily from Shakespeare’s ‘ The Tempest ’...

John Boorman, GB, 1974 I have a life-long relationship with ‘ Zardoz ’. When I was a kid, I read a lot of splendid science fictio...

Zack Snyder, 2016, USA Of course, the subheading really doesn’t mean much apart from its own bombast and the promise of The Justice...

Ilya Naishuller, 2015, Russia-USA Should you have ever wondered what the first person shooter you play looks like as a film, or ...

Leigh Whannel, 2015, Canada-USA A prequel to the ' Insidious ' franchise that has psychic Elise Rainer (Lin Shaye) helping ...

Peter Hyams, 1997, UK-Germany-New Zealand-USA Derivative and formulaic on the one hand, unpretentious and decently executed on the ...

Michael Mann, 2015, USA For all the digital sheen, Mann’s thriller runs on an old fashioned sense of character and narrative. Chris ...

David Koepp, USA, 1999 Typical ghost story  enhanced by superior performances and realisation of the domestic. A little outshone at ...

Sergey Bodrov, 2009, Russia-Germany-Kazakastan ‘ Mongol ’ is more John Milus’ ‘Conan’ than Akira Kurosawa. It has gorgeous scener...

'Rois et Reine' -  Arnaud Desplechin, 2004, France Arnaud Desplechin’s ‘ Kings and Queen ’ looks the part: it is well perfo...

Robert Eggers, 2015, USA-UK-Canada-Brazil It is perhaps going to mislead the casual viewer when people say ‘ The Witch ’ is scary a...

TimMiller, 2016, USA-Canada The reason why films like ‘ Deadpool ’ and ‘ Guardians of the Galaxy ’ have proven so successful is sur...

Eduardo Sánchez, 2014, USA ‘ Exists ’ is a good monster-movie romp but a lousy drama. You will spend a lot of time thinking of ho...