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The Best Films of the 1910s & 1920s
The greatest films of cinema’s early years, from German Expressionism to Hollywood’s silent comedies.
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Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
As James Cameron continues to forge his epic saga of spirituality and survival through the elements, Avatar: Fire and Ash tests the threads of tradition which binds its clans together, drawing dangerous new alliances that ignite a crucible of faith, fury, and primordial spectacle.
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Sentimental Value (2025)
Nora’s scepticism towards reconciling with her estranged father may be justified in Sentimental Value, yet the power of healing through artistic collaboration is not to be underestimated, as Joachim Trier peels back layers of generational trauma to expose the tender vulnerability beneath.
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Frankenstein (2025)
Through operatic mythologising and cinematic splendour, Guillermo del Toro magnificently elevates Frankenstein into a rueful, elegiac meditation on kinship, condemning both father and son to the same corrosive cycles of paternal cruelty, maternal absence, and a hunger for love that no creation can satisfy.
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It Was Just an Accident (2025)
Jafar Panahi channels his fury at Iran’s oppressive regime into the complex moral dilemma of It Was Just an Accident, propelling a party of former political prisoners on a quest to identify a man they believe to be their torturer, and uneasily distilling the gnawing, unrelenting anxiety of their tortured survival.
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No Other Choice (2025)
Never has Park Chan-wook wielded his fatalistic irony with such a darkly comedic edge as he does in No Other Choice, sending one unemployed paper specialist on a murderous trail against rival job candidates, and sharply exposing the bureaucratic nihilism of modern capitalism.
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Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
The cerebral pleasures of Wake Up Dead Man’s painstakingly plotted mystery may captivate the mind, yet Rian Johnson’s careful attention to the spiritual stakes within a guilty church congregation resonates with haunting ambiguity, unravelling the impossible, locked-room murder of a vindictive priest.