26 Oct 2021 - 1:00am

Why Wes Anderson loves the New Yorker The French Dispatch is an ode to the most fetishised magazine in the world

Dorian Lynskey

27.05

Alfred Hitchcock lived in fear He was obsessed with sex and violence — yet recoiled from modernity

Tomiwa Owolade

17.01

1917 pretends good soldiers don’t kill Sam Mendes' epic drips with contemporary sentiment and hackneyed stereotypes

John Lewis-Stempel