Julia Ducournau has insisted that genre “imposed a distance” on her first two features, but to watch her third — the dour and dismal “Alpha,” which eschews the more legible body horror of her earlier ...

Judging by the sudden spike in high-concept AIDS allegories hitting the festival circuit, it must have been the shock of COVID-19 that sent so many artists’ minds racing back to that previous pandemic ...

I rarely allow myself to go into a major horror release fully blind. Such was the case with Palme d’Or-winning director Julia Ducournau’s sophomore masterpiece, Titane, a highly stylized and ...