Puss in Boots: The Last Wish - This film is the absolute cat’s whiskersAntonio Banderas saves the day in this appealing animation from the Shrek franchiseFri Feb 03 2023 - 05:00
Saint Omer: An electrifying dramatisation of a mother’s trial for leaving her baby to drownAlice Diop’s Venice-winning first feature sticks to the facts of Fabienne Kabou’s prosecution for an unspeakable crime against her daughterFri Feb 03 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekSteven Spielberg’s seven Oscars-nominated The Fabelman, plus brawny Gerard Butler in Plane, documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, and dark Bulgarian drama JanuarySun Jan 29 2023 - 05:00
‘If human beings keep mistreating nature and animals, we will be left with robots’ Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski on his latest film featuring a donkey in the lead roleSat Jan 28 2023 - 05:00
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed: Holding philanthropists to accountAfter Oscar-winning biopic of Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras turns to campaigning artist Nan GoldinFri Jan 27 2023 - 05:00
Plane: The set-up is so silly you wonder why they didn’t parachute in a dinosaur Who would win? Gerard Butler or an island of jihadi pirates? Plane has the answerThu Jan 26 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekMargot Robbie and Brad Pitt in Hollywood epic Babylon, plus Iranian serial killer drama Holy Spider, Irish horror comedy Let the Wrong One In, and documentary on the legendary Chelsea HotelSun Jan 22 2023 - 05:00
Tony Kushner on The Fabelmans: ‘There’s no alien showing up. It’s not World War II. It’s a very naked film’Acclaimed playwright and longtime Steven Spielberg collaborator Tony Kushner on working on the director’s most personal film to dateSat Jan 21 2023 - 05:00
Dreaming Walls: A missed opportunity to portray the legendary Chelsea HotelDocumentary about a long-term home for many famous artists is dreamy but short on historical contextFri Jan 20 2023 - 05:00
Holy Spider: A cracking, effective thriller powered by uneasinessAli Abbasi’s film about a real life sexually motivated murderer takes aim at theocracy and misogynyFri Jan 20 2023 - 05:00
Holy Spider: How the appalling story of a self-styled ‘Islamic Travis Bickle’ was brought to the screenDirector Ali Abbasi on his new film about the serial killer Saeed Hanaei and its vivid relevance after recent events in IranWed Jan 18 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekCate Blanchett is grandstandingly brilliant in Tár, plus frightful folkie Enys Men, creepy doll M3GAN, and Sam Mendes’ Empire of LightSun Jan 15 2023 - 05:00
Sam Mendes: ‘If I made American Beauty now it would be for a streamer’Following Bond and the epic 1917, the Oscar-winner returns with his most personal feature to date, Empire of Light.Sat Jan 14 2023 - 05:00
Film-maker Mark Jenkin: ‘We’re Cornish. We can just have our own culture’Quentin Tarantino is a fan, Mark Kermode a champion. How Cornwall’s best-kept secret became the toast of Cannes and the BerlinaleFri Jan 13 2023 - 05:00
Enys Men: Spellbound in CornwallMark Jenkin’s second feature is a mesmerising and worthy successor to the award-winning BaitFri Jan 13 2023 - 05:00
Empire of Light: Sam Mendes’s beautifully made new film doesn’t quite hang togetherThe film has some memorable scenes but tries to do too much, taking on racial and sexual inequality, mental health issues and moreMon Jan 09 2023 - 12:22
Four new films to see this week A Man Called Otto with Tom Hanks, Till starring Danielle Deadwyler, Catalan-language film Alcarràs, and avenger thriller The EnforcerSun Jan 08 2023 - 05:29
‘I don’t worry about awards. It is a bigger thing to combat racism, right?’The Harder They Fall star Danielle Deadwyler on her extraordinary performance as Mamie Till-Mobley in TillSat Jan 07 2023 - 05:00
Till: Grief rings from every corner in Oscar favouriteDanielle Deadwyler is phenomenal as a grieving mother turned civil rights activistFri Jan 06 2023 - 05:04
Alcarràs: Small farmers take on environmentally themed capitalist greedTraditional peach-farmers in Catalonia come under threat from big ‘green’ businessFri Jan 06 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekEmpress Elizabeth Austrian drama Corsage, Lars Von Trier’s The Kingdom: Exodus, Léa Seydoux in France, and odd beast nature documentary WildcatSun Jan 01 2023 - 05:00
She chronicles boat migrants from the safety of a yacht. Mostly, she’s in it for the selfies France: Léa Seydoux has never been better than in Bruno Dumont’s madcap satireThu Dec 29 2022 - 05:00
Corsage: Vicky Krieps is getting laced into rigid leather corsets. It’s not what you thinkIn Marie Kreutzer’s innovative historical drama, the Phantom Thread star plays the beloved Empress Elisabeth of AustriaTue Dec 27 2022 - 09:08
Four new films to see this weekWhitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody, plus Ozon upturns Fassbinder with Peter von Kant, Christian Bale streaming in The Pale Blue Eye, and classic British gothic The Queen of SpadesSun Dec 25 2022 - 05:00
Peter von Kant: Magnificent glass-throwing, door-slamming romantic agonyNo piece of furniture is safe in this terrifically overheated tribute to Rainer Werner FassbinderThu Dec 22 2022 - 05:00
The Pale Blue Eye: Christian Bale leads a starry cast in a beautifully shot, absurdly plotted movieScott Cooper’s silly if entertaining detective story is perfect Christmas fodderThu Dec 22 2022 - 05:00
Clerks director Kevin Smith: ‘My stuff’s approachable. It makes you feel sorry for it’The film-maker struck gold with his no-budget hit. He talks about its second sequel, health issues and ‘not knowing how to direct’Wed Dec 21 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekJames Cameron’s long-awaited Avatar sequel, plus indie thriller The Apology streaming and reissues of Fanny and Alexander and The Bishop’s WifeSun Dec 18 2022 - 05:00
Fanny and Alexander: The enduring power of Ingmar Bergman’s masterpieceThe sweeping grandeur of this 40th-anniversary reissue casts a spell for all of it’s three-hour runtimeFri Dec 16 2022 - 05:00
The Apology: A very female revenge thrillerA low-budget battle of wits that escalates in unexpected waysFri Dec 16 2022 - 05:00
European Film Awards: An Cailín Ciúin picks up award as Triangle of Sadness sweeps the boardDespite the best efforts of the academy, European audiences have stubbornly refused to embrace the EFAs as the movieverse’s answer to EurovisionSun Dec 11 2022 - 11:10
Four new films to see this weekA stop-motion version of Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro, plus Don DeLillo’s famously ‘unfilmable’ White Noise, British drama The Silent Twins and, from China, controversial Return to DustSun Dec 11 2022 - 05:00
Return to Dust: An equine turn for the ages – and the humans are pretty good tooQuiet and affecting rural Chinese drama tugs at the heart-stringsFri Dec 09 2022 - 05:00
Pinocchio: Guillermo del Toro’s version is a beautiful puppet show, but who is it for?This brooding stop-motion musical is the third big-screen adaptation of 2022 for Carlo Collodi’s 140-year-old fableFri Dec 09 2022 - 05:00
Ghosts of Baggotonia: D4 as you have never seen it beforeFilm-maker Alan Gilsenan returns to childhood haunts in search of forgotten phantomsThu Dec 08 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekViolent Night on wide release, Tori and Lokita and Three Minutes: A Lengthening in select cinemas, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover streamingSun Dec 04 2022 - 05:00
Lynch/Oz: Follow the Yellow Brick RoadChronicler of Star Wars, Alien and The Exorcist turns to David Lynch’s obsession with The Wizard of OzSat Dec 03 2022 - 11:14
The films of 2022: The good, the bad and the unexpectedThe medium still feels in queasy transition as this year presents a very mixed bag with a few surprisesSat Dec 03 2022 - 05:00
Lady Chatterley’s Lover: Steamy? It’s not even NSFWNo viewer need fret for the morals of their servants or wives – it’s all sanitised sex and winsome romanceFri Dec 02 2022 - 05:00
Three Minutes: A Lengthening – Snatches of home-movie footage, then a detective story unfoldsBianca Stigter’s film essay rediscovers the lost Jewish population of the Polish town of NasielskFri Dec 02 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekBenoit Blanc returns in Glass Onion, plus muckraking Harvey Weinstein exposé She Said, YA cannibal romance Bones & All, and Roald Dahl’s Matilda the MusicalSun Nov 27 2022 - 05:00
Dardenne brothers: ‘We put people who are invisible at the heart of our story’Belgian film-making siblings and social realists return with a tale of two underage Benin immigrants drawn into the criminal underworldSat Nov 26 2022 - 05:00
Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical: Young Irish star Alisha Weir is a compelling, spirited heroineDirector Matthew Warchus has put the recording-breaking West End hit onscreen. But that doesn’t quite make it a screen musicalFri Nov 25 2022 - 05:15
Bones and All: Cannibalism has never looked prettierCannibalism has never looked prettierFri Nov 25 2022 - 05:00
‘I heard people are throwing up during my movie. I’m delighted’Bones and All director Luca Guadagnino on reuniting with Timothée Chalamet for a coming-of-age drama with a generous helping of cannibalismTue Nov 22 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekPaul Mescal in Aftersun, plus Armageddon Time, Aisha and BardoSun Nov 20 2022 - 05:00
James Gray: ‘I’m hostile to the idea of whose story can I tell? It’s my right to put it out there’The New York auteur’s new film, his most personal to date, details that Trump’s father paid for his educationSat Nov 19 2022 - 05:00
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths: even the tangents have tangentsReview: The title is as unwieldy as everything else in this muddled new film from Alejandro G IñárrituFri Nov 18 2022 - 05:00
Aisha: Letitia Wright and Josh O’Connor star in a portrait of dignity in the face of Irish crueltyFrank Berry’s quietly seething new drama dramatises the horrors of Ireland’s direct-provision system for asylum seekersFri Nov 18 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekThe Black Panther sequel, plus No Bears from Iran and Irish documentaries of Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Richard HarrisSun Nov 13 2022 - 05:00
