About

The Wavelength is a publication about culture and film.

Its essays look at culture in the broad sense: how people live, what they value, and how both are changing. They examine the habits, trends and public arguments that shape contemporary life, from the way people work and spend their time to the ideas that move through a society and then fall out of favour. The aim is to describe these shifts accurately and to ask what they mean.

Its reviews cover new releases and older films alike, across languages and industries. Each one weighs what a film sets out to do against what it achieves, and closes with a star rating and a plain verdict.

New writing is published two to three times a week.

The Wavelength is independent. It carries no sponsored content and accepts no payment for coverage. Every judgement published here is the writer’s own, reached without regard to studios, distributors or advertisers.

The name reflects a view of what criticism is for. Its task is not to tell readers what to think. It is to bring into focus something that was already there and had gone unnoticed.

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