25 films to check out in summer 2025: From Liam Neeson in Naked Gun to Scarlett Johansson in Jurassic World: Rebirth
Amid a summer of remakes and sequels, there are some smaller gems to seek out
Four new films to see this week
Sundance hit The Ballad of Wallis Island is a cult comedy fave in the making. Plus a strong French melodrama, a troubled British couple on the move, and another routine Karate Kid retooling
When it comes to ‘howcatchems’, Poker Face is the new Columbo. Respect
Like Peter Falk’s character, Natasha Lyonne’s inverts the whodunit structure of the traditional detective story
The Movie Quiz: What is Tom Cruise’s highest-grossing film...ever?
Plus: Which 1970s TV show is, apparently, currently in cinemas?
Along Came Love review: Diverting melodrama just about delivers on early promise of knotty personal drama
Director Katell Quillévéré’s saga of wavering emotional dynamics is easy on the eye but doesn’t tax the brain
The Salt Path review: Jason Isaacs and Gillian Anderson go on a very English journey of self-discovery
A homeless couple gain wisdom through walking 1,000km of the West Country in a gently amusing if one-paced ramble
Cannes 2025: Clapologists get it wrong, an acidic Israeli satire is too hot to handle, and Scarlett Johansson serves up schmaltz
The French film festival’s 78th edition was strong if rarely spectacular – but still threw up a few surprises
Mission impossible: If you want to see how desperate Hollywood is, just look at what happens to movie titles
Hollywood’s serial chopping and changing of franchise movie titles shows the studios will go to any lenghts to Anything to grab audiences’ attention
Four new films to see this week
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, The Phoenician Scheme, The Flats, When the Light Breaks
Iranian director Jafar Panahi wins Palme d’Or at Cannes for It Was Just an Accident
Harry Lighton’s Pillion, produced by Dublin-based Element Pictures, takes award for best screenplay in the Un Certain Regard section
Benicio Del Toro: ‘I do movies that are more than just shooting and killing’
Benicio Del Toro and Michael Cera speak about their roles in Wes Anderson's latest film
The Movie Quiz: How long has Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise gone on for?
Plus: Which was the first film in colour to win best picture at the Oscars?
The Flats: Excellent post-Troubles documentary that illuminates how trauma can nag away for decades
Most of Alessandra Celesia’s film focuses on a man who finds it hard to set aside the old unhappiness
No popcorn, no phones, no buckets of fast food: you realise how bad Irish cinemas are when you see films in ideal surroundings
Going to the movies was never so idyllic as old bores pretend. But handheld devices and noisy food have made it so much worse
Four new films to see this week
Excellent performances in harrowing thriller Hallow Road. Plus an enjoyably nasty comic horror sequel, a low-key coming of age drama and a scattershot satire of Americans abroad