Michael Sun investigates the state of teen queer cinema after the feel-good optimism of Love, Simon.
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Video Essay: ‘Last Year At Marienbad’ and The Doobie Brother’s ‘What A Fool Believes’ Are About The Same Thing
Eliza Janssen finds an unlikely connection between Alain Resnais’ 1961 arthouse drama and a 70s yacht-rock single.
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A Cat Jumps Out From The Darkness: In Defence of Jump Scares
Why hasn’t the jump scare graduated to the same respectability as the horror genre?
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Oscars 2019 Round Table: A Group Chat
The Rough Cut team bring to you an unconventional chat ahead of the 2019 Academy Awards, bantering predictions, conflicts as critics, and Oscar campaigns.
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What Moves You: Distance in Kogonada’s Columbus
Claire White looks back at the architecture of human connection in Kogonada’s contemplative 2017 drama.
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Vox Lux and the Eerie Imprint of Celebrity Culture
This Natalie Portman-led portrait of a pop idol’s genesis is haunting in its depiction of trauma and mass media in the 21st century.
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Architecture as Comedy: Jacques Tati’s exactingly funny Mon Oncle
Tati grants us a world of extraordinary precision, one that can be compared and fused with ours, like two pieces of tracing paper.
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Video Essay: Partition and Division in Mikey and Nicky
Ivana Brehas examines the split world of Elaine May’s 1976 classic.
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