Inspired by a German ‘exhibitionist and floozy’ and reviled by generations of feminists, Barbie now synonymises more than a child’s doll

Donald Clarke: The frenzy of online irony is woven in with reasonable expectations the film could turn out to be a classic

Greta Gerwig tells Maureen Dowd about making Barbie, working in front of and behind the camera and collaborating with her partner, Noah Baumbach

Owners of cinema groups keen to see audiences return to watch on the big screen

Company loses 200,000 members in the first three months of the year

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Knitting. I mean, it’s not exactly me, is it?’

Armin Laschet faces his most serious test amid the country’s once-in-a-century flood

There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can

Film star's widow on curating her husband's archive, and the 47-year age gap

Donald Clarke: If I get fewer than 80% of these correct I’ll be disappointed

Year in Culture Review: From Lady Bird to A Star is Born, here are our films of the year

Review: This terrific study of the 1969 Moon landing is all about the man inside the suit

First Man director Damien Chazelle on his new film and its wave of ‘un-American’ criticism

Donald Clarke: Toronto Film Festival has fired the Academy Awards starting pistol

Audience input and domestic films make TIFF more than just an Oscar barometer

Toronto film festival: Natalie Portman dazzles in Vox Lux as Irish films continued to premiere at another busy Tiff for domestic cinema

The ‘Incredibles 2’ director on the Disney studio’s secret sauce, and keeping his distance from corporate nonsense

Is it time we looked with a more critical eye on the stories we tell about falling in love

Animated ‘Spiderman’ looks promising. But ‘Suspiria’, and new films from Steve McQueen and Lenny Abrahamson look breathtaking

Marc Meyers’s My Friend Dahmer is adapted from the graphic novel by John Backderf, aka Derf