Waltz with Bashir director aims to bring Anne Frank to new generation: ‘It’s important we use the past to tell the story of today’Ali Folman conjures up Kitty from the pages of the famous diary in his first family animationWed Aug 10 2022 - 05:18
Four new films to see this week ... One of them is a lean, exhilarating thrillerThirteen Live and Prey streaming, Bullet Train and Maisie in cinemasSun Aug 07 2022 - 06:00
Maisie: Tribute to an artform that’s been changed foreverBritain’s oldest drag performer meets the US equivalent in warm, witty documentaryFri Aug 05 2022 - 05:00
Prey film review: This thrilling new Predator movie is the year’s best action flickThrilling new Predator instalment pitches the alien against a young Comanche girl and her dogFri Aug 05 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekHit the Road, Joyride, Fire of Love, The Deer KingSun Jul 31 2022 - 06:00
‘When David was originally performing, it was still illegal to be homosexual in the UK’A compelling, and frequently hilarious documentary about Maisie Trollette, Britain’s oldest drag queen, ahead of David Raven’s 85th birthday celebrationsSat Jul 30 2022 - 05:00
The Deer King: Not the classic we might have hoped forFilm review: Long-time Studio Ghibli animator makes his directorial debutFri Jul 29 2022 - 05:00
Fire of Love: Volcanic romance that should be seen on largest possible screenMoving, thrilling portrait of married volcano nuts, who first bonded over their love of Mount EtnaFri Jul 29 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekWhere the Crawdads Sing on general release, Robust, Notre Dame on Fire and Kurt Vonnegut: Unstock in Time on limited releaseSun Jul 24 2022 - 06:00
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time — An extensive but scattershot documentary Film review: Curb Your Enthusiasm director Robert B Weide’s fond portrait of a countercultural icon and friendFri Jul 22 2022 - 05:00
Notre Dame on Fire: Too soonFilm review: Jean-Jacques Annaud’s French disaster film feels too fresh to yield any surprisesFri Jul 22 2022 - 00:00
Four new films to see this weekPersuasion and The Gray Man streaming, The Railway Children Return and McEnroe on cinema releaseSun Jul 17 2022 - 06:00
Russo brothers: ‘There’s an inherent elitism in Anglo Cinema that is not interesting to us’Having directed four of the biggest movies of all time, Anthony and Joe Russo know what their audience wants — and how to reach itSat Jul 16 2022 - 05:00
McEnroe: Engaging chronicle of the softening of a superbratThe liveliest archive footage dates from McEnroe’s early punkish appearances on courtFri Jul 15 2022 - 06:00
The Gray Man: High-octane hokumFilm review: The Russo Bros return with Netflix’s biggest-budget movie to date, and it will make you pine for the relative complexity of Fast & FuriousFri Jul 15 2022 - 06:00
Director Carrie Cracknell on Persuasion: ‘I always intended to absolutely honour the heart of the book’Netflix has a new Jane Austen adaptation starring Dakota Johnson and Richard E GrantWed Jul 13 2022 - 05:30
Four new films to see this weekThe Sea Beast streaming, Thor: Love and Thunder, Brian and Charles and Futura on cinema releaseSun Jul 10 2022 - 06:00
Futura: A vibrant, vital chronicle of young Italy Film review: Documentary finds an alarming sense of uncertainty among its subjectsFri Jul 08 2022 - 06:00
Brian and Charles: A whimsical delightFilm review: English comedy about an inventor and his robot is like Wallace & Gromit without the clayFri Jul 08 2022 - 06:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekNitram, The Princess, Pompo: The Cinephile, Minions: The Rise of GruSun Jul 03 2022 - 06:00
The massacre that ‘shifted everything in Australia ... It’s taboo to discuss it’Justin Kurzel’s Cannes prizewinning film, Nitram, deals with an Australian tragedy — the Port Arthur MassacreSat Jul 02 2022 - 06:00
Brian and Charles — a debut feature from David EarlRicky Gervais regular David Earl has co-written and starred in the summer’s most anticipated comedySat Jul 02 2022 - 00:01
Pompo: The Cinéphile — A lively anime love letter to movie-making An attractive leading lady is overshadowed by the auteur’s hauteurFri Jul 01 2022 - 06:00
Minions: The Rise of Gru — Despicable mediocrityFilm review: A series of skits that never threatens to congeal into anything resembling a plotFri Jul 01 2022 - 06:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekendElvis, The Black Phone, Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest, The Big HitSun Jun 26 2022 - 06:00
Wim Wenders: Looking back through the rear-view mirrorThe German film-maker on Paris, Texas; Bono; and a 50-year career as the IFI stages a retrospectiveSat Jun 25 2022 - 06:00
The Big Hit: Big-hearted Beckett production in a French prisonFilm review: Prisoners wait for Godot in this irresistible yet undercooked filmFri Jun 24 2022 - 06:00
The Black Phone: Spooky tale of child abduction and maligned spiritsFilm Review: Ethan Hawke scares the kids in Blumhouse’s latest thrillerFri Jun 24 2022 - 00:00
Daryl McCormack arrives as a leading man — in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande In this sex-positive movie, McCormack plays a smooth-talking sex worker hired by Emma Thompson’s characterSat Jun 18 2022 - 06:00
Lightyear: There’s no buzz to this Toy Story spin-offA solid sci-fi concept gives way to bare adequacy and a perfunctory feelFri Jun 17 2022 - 05:00
Pleasure: Hard-hitting drama about LA’s dark porn underbellyDirector Ninja Thyberg’s ironically titled film betrays a misogynistic and toxic industryFri Jun 17 2022 - 05:00
Jacqueline Lentzou: ‘I could not find a producer because most producers here are men and they would look at me as if an alien’The up-and-coming Greek film-maker talks about unspoken love, Tarot cards, and why she doesn’t subscribe to the so-called Weird WaveTue Jun 14 2022 - 06:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekSwan Song, All My Friends Hate Me, Earwig, Jurassic World DominionSun Jun 12 2022 - 06:00
Elvis is back in the buildingBaz Luhrmann on his very rhinestone, glitter-bomb version of The KingSat Jun 11 2022 - 06:00
Swan Song: Death has seldom been so much funUdo Kier puts in a career-best turn in director Todd Stephens’s impeccable odysseyFri Jun 10 2022 - 05:00
All My Friends Hate Me: A brilliant British horror-comedy of mannersWhen old college chums gather in a country house in Devon, there’s misunderstood jokes, inappropriate pranks and fearFri Jun 10 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekMen, I Am Zlatan, Olga, Bergman’s IslandSun Jun 05 2022 - 06:00
I am Zlatan: Engaging portrait of a true football superstarThis dramatisation of the Swedish footballer’s life will engage even non-fansFri Jun 03 2022 - 05:00
Bergman Island: Despite the name, this is no masterpieceStudy of tensions among film-makers is a misfireFri Jun 03 2022 - 05:00
Lucile Hadzihalilovic: ‘I grew up in south Morocco ... there was not a lot of access to the cinema’Filmmaker discusses her new, unusual, project Earwig and working with her partnerThu Jun 02 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekTop Gun: Maverick, The Bob’s Burgers Movie, Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s), Between Two WorldsSun May 29 2022 - 06:00
Cannes 2022: Taylor Swift dodges a bullet by missing her boyfriend’s premiereTara Brady frockwatches and sees the festival’s best and most forgettable filmsFri May 27 2022 - 12:34
Between Two Worlds: Juliette Binoche scrubs toilets, problematicallyWell-meaning film can’t overcome its queasy premise and contradictionsFri May 27 2022 - 05:00
Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s) – Interesting but superficialDocumentary has a wealth of materials but gets no closer to revealing the personFri May 27 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekThe Innocents, Benediction, a-ha: The Movie, The Road DanceSun May 22 2022 - 06:00
Top Gun producer Jerry Bruckheimer: ‘We thought we had the biggest flop in the world’It took three decades getting the sequel off the ground. It’s a story full of twists and turns and tailspinsSat May 21 2022 - 05:00
A-ha: The Movie – entertaining take on troubled Norwegian trioPortrait of synthpop stars is no Some Kind of Monster, but enjoyable nonethelessFri May 20 2022 - 05:00
The Innocents: Be very afraid of the childrenFilm review: A sense of psychic dread pervades this paranormal dramaFri May 20 2022 - 05:00
Françoise Lebrun: ‘I’m just an actor. I can only interpret’Star of La Maman et La Putain on her role in Gaspar Noé’s film about age and Alzheimer’sMon May 16 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekAn Cailín Ciúin, Vortex, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Drover’s WifeSun May 15 2022 - 06:00
