I reviewed the 4K Blu-Ray release of Pink Narcissus for the September 2026 issue of Sight & Sound. The review is reproduced here with permission. “I really do like to be my own little pioneer,” James Bidgood said. That’s one way to describe his achievement with Pink Narcissus. A sui generis erotic fantasia created […]
I reviewed Gus Van Sant’s feature Dead Man’s Wire for the April 2026 issue of Sight & Sound. The review can be read at its website and is reproduced here with permission. Is it too much, in this world, to ask for “some goddamn catharsis, some genuine guilt” to be apportioned to the terrible […]
As lead review for Sight and Sound’s April 2025 issue, I wrote about Alain Giraudie’s unsettling thriller Misericordia, something of a companion piece to his 2013 feature, Stranger by the Lake. The review can be read online here is reproduced with permission. “We need murders,” muses Abbé Grisolles (Jacques Develay, pictured right) toward the […]
Reality and fantasy blur for two isolated suburban teens who bond over a mysterious, Buffy-esque 1990s TV show in trans director Jane Schoenbrun’s fantastically inventive second feature.
BFI Flare 2024 includes two powerful features about trans experiences of family life, Close To You and Crossing.
Andrew Haigh’s deeply affecting, time-slipping feature centres on a middle-aged gay writer grappling with the profound consequences of grief and structural homophobia.
Ira Sachs’s drama, starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopolous, explores three characters’ jostling wants and needs
Dionne Edwards’s debut feature deftly balances a family’s competing desires, vulnerabilities and insensitivities
Ari Aster’s overblown pseudo-surreal picaresque odyssey is less a story about human beings in human situations than a trippy gamut of threats and feelings. It’s a lot.
