First Look: A House of Dynamite, Kathryn Bigelow’s rattling nuclear potboiler, feels agonisingly realVenice International Film Festival 2025: Oscarologists are already alive to the Academy Award possibilities for the director’s first film for eight yearsWed Sept 03 2025 - 14:20
Barbie Ferreira: ‘Even when I don’t feel confident I feign it, to control the space I’m in’The actor’s career trajectory offers the perfect blueprint for the polymath, many-platformed nature of modern youthful stardomTue Sept 02 2025 - 05:16
First Look: Julia Roberts does her best, but After the Hunt feels like a pointless provocationVenice International Film Festival 2025: Luca Guadagnino’s film is a dull retread of the PC-gone-mad arguments of the past quarter-centuryMon Sept 01 2025 - 18:54
Four new films to see this week: Caught Stealing, Christy, Young Mothers and Little Trouble GirlsAustin Butler, Zoë Kravitz, Danny Power and Diarmuid Noyes feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 29th, 2025Sun Aug 31 2025 - 05:03
Little Trouble Girls: Lush, haunting story of a repressed teen’s sexual awakeningNamed for a Sonic Youth song, Urska Djukic’s film captures the tension between virginal purity and messy adolescence Thu Aug 28 2025 - 05:03
Young Mothers review: The Dardenne brothers bring empathy to interlocking stories of underage mothers in LiègeThe Belgian film-makers’ 13th feature deftly weaves together the lives of five young womenWed Aug 27 2025 - 05:08
Four new films to see this week: Sorry, Baby, The Life of Chuck, Eddington and Oslo Stories: SexEva Victor, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal star in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 23rd, 2025Sun Aug 24 2025 - 05:01
Eva Victor on pitching their debut film, Sorry, Baby: ‘It felt so personal I thought rejection might kill me’Odd as it might sound, Victor’s note-perfect script, drawn from personal experience of sexual assault, is a trauma comedySat Aug 23 2025 - 05:18
Oslo Stories: Sex review – A fitting climax to this appealing trilogyThis gentle exploration of masculinity, marriage and sexual orientation unfolds mostly through conversations between two chimney sweepsThu Aug 21 2025 - 05:03
Eddington review: Pandemic psychodrama starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal is a fascinating experimentAri Aster’s political satire is full of sound and fury, signifying something. If only we knew what that wasWed Aug 20 2025 - 05:06
Four new films to see this week: Materialists, Together, Night Always Comes and Oslo Stories: LoveDave Franco, Alison Brie, Pedro Pascal, Dakota Johnson and Vanessa Kirby star in a quartet of movies released in the week of July 15th, 2025Sun Aug 17 2025 - 05:00
Materialists director Celine Song: ‘How are we supposed to find love when dating is reduced to a numbers game?’Materialists, Celine Song’s new romcom, is inspired by the film-maker’s time working for an elite New York matchmaking agencySat Aug 16 2025 - 05:32
Night Always Comes review: Vanessa Kirby gives it her all, but this poverty theme park isn’t worth the entrance feeWilly Vlautin adaptation soon abandons its promising real-world dilemma as it swerves into unconvincing low-life criminalityFri Aug 15 2025 - 00:00
Oslo Stories: Love review. An understated, patient and disarming filmIn the second instalment of Dag Johan Haugerud’s Oslo trilogy, changing a catheter proves just as intimate as spontaneous sexThu Aug 14 2025 - 05:00
Jamie Lee Curtis: ‘Once you mess with your face you can’t get it back’Freakier Friday, which reunites the Oscar-winner with Lindsay Lohan, is good clean fun. But its themes mean a lot to an actor who has had her share of personal trialsSun Aug 10 2025 - 07:11
Four new films to see this week: Weapons, Freakier Friday, The Kingdom and Conor Walsh: Selected Piano WorksA quartet of movies released in the week of August 8th, 2025Sun Aug 10 2025 - 05:00
The Kingdom review: Riveting, quietly devastating crime saga reinvigorates the Mafia movieThe tragic cycle is composed of the same beats that defined such superior films as The Godfather and Animal KingdomThu Aug 07 2025 - 05:00
Freakier Friday review: Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan’s old-school confection delights in every silly sceneNisha Ganatra’s zinger-laden sequel smartly reunites the original stars as body-swapping mother and daughterTue Aug 05 2025 - 19:52
Four new films to see this week: The Naked Gun, Bring Her Back, Late Shift and Oslo Stories: Dreams (Sex Love)A quartet of movies released in the week of August 1st, 2025Sun Aug 03 2025 - 05:00
Bring Her Back review: Sally Hawkins weaponises her Paddington-mom screen persona in this gorily audacious horrorLatest iteration of A24’s ‘grief is the real horror’ subgenre leans heavily on body horror to drive emotionThu Jul 31 2025 - 05:06
Oslo Stories: Dreams (Sex Love) review – The first part of Dag Johan Haugerud’s trilogy is intimate, ambiguous and lingeringAt its best, the Danish drama thrives in the fuzzy intersection of memory, identity and making stuff upWed Jul 30 2025 - 05:04
Late Shift star Leonie Benesch: ‘The biggest shock was realising how broken health systems are globally’For her role in Petra Volpe’s feature the German actor shadowed nurses in Zurich but found even in wealthy Switzerland working conditions are toughMon Jul 28 2025 - 05:03
Four new films to see this week: The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Gazer, Dying/Sterben and The Bad Guys 2A quartet of movies released in the week of July 25th, 2025Sun Jul 27 2025 - 05:00
Gazer review: An impressive, lo-fi and disarmingly intense debutAriella Mastroianni is mesmerising as woman struggling with fractured family and fragmented psycheFri Jul 25 2025 - 05:08
Dying review: Dark family saga shows living, like dying, is a messy businessSweeping intergenerational study of a fractured German family somehow finds a rhythmThu Jul 24 2025 - 11:50
Linus O’Brien on The Rocky Horror Film Show: ‘Rocky has tangibly saved lives. It created a real sense of community’ The son of Richard O’Brien has made a documentary about his father’s camp musical creation that became a monster cult hit Mon Jul 21 2025 - 05:00
The Other Way Around review: A witty and cerebral romantic comedyJonás Trueba’s film initially evokes mature classics, before veering into playfully modernist territoryFri Jul 18 2025 - 05:06
Harvest review: Trippy medieval parable where allegory overpowers the dramaAthina Rachel Tsangari’s first English-language film, adapted from the Jim Crace novel, is meticulously crafted yet oddly two-dimensionalFri Jul 18 2025 - 05:04
Harvest star Harry Melling: ‘I was surrounded by titans like Fiona Shaw. I was starry-eyed as they told me stories about theatre work’The Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari is the latest auteur to take a shine to the former Harry Potter actor, who has earned the respect of everyone from the Coen brothers to Christian BaleMon Jul 14 2025 - 05:02
Four new films to see this week: Pavements, Armand, Superman and Modigliani – Three Days on the Wing of MadnessJohnny Depp directs, and Al Pacino, David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan and Pavement appear in a quartet of movies released in the week of July 11th, 2025Sun Jul 13 2025 - 05:00
Armand review: An emergency parent-teacher conference bubbles into an unnerving psychological crucibleAn indelible, unsettling debut from Halfdan Ullmann Tondel, a grandson of Ingmar Bergman and Liv UllmannThu Jul 10 2025 - 05:01
Pavements review: Brilliantly unclassifiable salute to the 1990s indie-rock legends PavementAlex Ross Perry’s film is framed around Pavement’s 2022 reunion tour, but it quickly spirals outwards into giddy metafictionWed Jul 09 2025 - 05:01
Alex Ross Perry on his Pavement documentary: ‘The concept was an absurd notion that this band would ever go gold or platinum’ Stephen Malkmus, the frontman of indie rock’s least-bothered legacy act, had just one stipulation for the film: that it be ‘confusing and weird’. The result is indeed slanted and enchantedMon Jul 07 2025 - 05:03
Four new films to see this week: Jurassic World Rebirth, The Shrouds, Beat the Lotto and Sudan, Remember Us Mahershala Ali, Scarlett Johansson, Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger and Stefan Klincewicz feature in these movies released in the week of July 4th, 2025Sun Jul 06 2025 - 05:00
Sudan, Remember Us review: A brief moment of possibility punctuated by shocking violenceThis documentary by Hind Meddeb of a hopeful sit-in protest is a vital time capsule of the civil-war-racked country’s recent historyThu Jul 03 2025 - 05:00
Beat the Lotto review: An irresistible documentary about an audacious plan that captured Ireland’s imaginationDirector Ross Whitaker is perhaps best known for his portraits Katie Taylor and The Boys in GreenWed Jul 02 2025 - 05:01
Horror director David Cronenberg on his wife’s death: ‘I wanted to get into the coffin, to be with her body’The Shrouds is an intensely personal film for the maker of The Fly, Dead Ringers and CrashTue Jul 01 2025 - 05:14
Four new films to see this week: F1, From Hilde, with Love, The Moon Is Upside Down and M3gan 2.0Kerry Condon, Brad Pitt, Liv Lisa Fries, Johannes Hegemann and Allison Williams feature in these movies released in the week of June 27th, 2025Sun Jun 29 2025 - 05:00
From Hilde, with Love: A powerful, elegiac story of resistance to the Third ReichThe young couple at the centre of this compelling film are quiet idealists given to neither grand pontification nor cinematic heroismThu Jun 26 2025 - 05:03
The Moon Is Upside Down: This poignantly awkward dramedy could feature cinema’s clumsiest sex sceneLoren Taylor’s unabashedly feminine dramedy intertwines the lives of three women each grappling with their own crisisThu Jun 26 2025 - 05:02
Hot Milk: A heated affair, an overbearing Fiona Shaw and some shameful Irish sexualityThe acclaimed director explains why she is ‘very interested in outsiders’ and why she decided to give an Irish angle to her adaption of Deborah Levy’s novel Mon Jun 23 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week: 28 Years Later, Elio, Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story, and S/He Is Still Her/eJodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, Liza Minnelli and Genesis P-Orridge feature in these movies released in the week of June 20th, 2025Sun Jun 22 2025 - 05:00
Elio star Yonas Kibreab: ‘I saw my first Pixar movies when I was four, so to be in one is surreal’ Filipino-American actor (15) plays a misfit kid whisked across the galaxy in Pixar’s latest bid for renewed box-office dominanceThu Jun 19 2025 - 05:15
S/He Is Still Her/e review: Genesis P-Orridge film offers invaluable glimpses into a radical lifeP-Orridge lived many selves, spanning punk rebellion, gender reinvention, occult philosophy and moreThu Jun 19 2025 - 05:12
Elio review: Pixar’s all-ages pleasures are in short supply in strangely half-formed animationCreative shifts during the film’s troubled production are all too evident in its on-screen storytellingTue Jun 17 2025 - 17:00
Four new films to see this week: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, How to Train Your Dragon, Tornado and LollipopA quartet of movies released in the week of June 13th, 2025Sun Jun 15 2025 - 04:59
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life director Laura Piani: ‘I didn’t want to do a film about a woman who is saved by a man’The French director’s Austen-influenced romcom with a clever spin was inspired by a stint working at Paris bookshop Shakespeare and CompanyThu Jun 12 2025 - 05:14
Tornado review: A singular, if rarely easy, watch about double-crossing rogues on the rampageJohn Maclean returns to the austere storytelling that defined Slow West, his well-regarded debut, in a film of stark silences and oppressive atmosphericsThu Jun 12 2025 - 05:01
Lollipop review: This socially aware film is maddening, urgent viewingDaisy-May Hudson’s first scripted feature builds on her documentary Half Way’s poignant account of the challenges faced by a single mum and the family’s encounters with bureaucracyWed Jun 11 2025 - 05:00
‘I couldn’t resist the fact that the sharks weren’t the monsters’: Sean Byrne on making the thriller Dangerous AnimalsThe cult Australian director’s latest movie pits the oceans’ apex predators against human savageryThu Jun 05 2025 - 05:01
