Andrea Arnold confidently navigates the pitfalls of the ‘difficult’ second feature with Fish Tank, which confirms her status as a torchbearer for the social realist traditions of Ken Loach and the ...

Kitchen-sink realism has been associated with British theater since the early work of John Osborne in the 1950s, and these depictions of the intimate, messy lives of working-class families have never ...

Here’s what interests the supremely talented British director Andrea Arnold: ordinary people’s lives, poised between transformation and despair; the dire landscapes of sub-middle-class contemporary ...