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 agency
Night Always Comes review: Vanessa Kirby gives it her all, but this poverty theme park isn’t worth the entrance fee
Willy Vlautin adaptation soon abandons its promising real-world dilemma as it swerves into unconvincing low-life criminality
Oslo Stories: Love review – Pay attention to the details in this understated, patient and disarming film
In the second instalment of Dag Johan Haugerud’s Oslo trilogy, changing a catheter proves just as intimate as spontaneous sex
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 trials
Four new films to see this week: Weapons, Freakier Friday, The Kingdom and Conor Walsh: Selected Piano Works
A quartet of movies released in the week of August 8th, 2025
The Kingdom review: Riveting, quietly devastating crime saga reinvigorates the Mafia movie
The tragic cycle is composed of the same beats that defined such superior films as The Godfather and Animal Kingdom
Freakier Friday review: Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan’s old-school confection delights in every silly scene
Nisha Ganatra’s zinger-laden sequel smartly reunites the original stars as body-swapping mother and daughter
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, 2025
Bring Her Back review: Sally Hawkins weaponises her Paddington-mom screen persona in this gorily audacious horror
Latest iteration of A24’s ‘grief is the real horror’ subgenre leans heavily on body horror to drive emotion
Oslo Stories: Dreams (Sex Love) review – The first part of Dag Johan Haugerud’s trilogy is intimate, ambiguous and lingering
At its best, the Danish drama thrives in the fuzzy intersection of memory, identity and making stuff up
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 tough
Four new films to see this week: The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Gazer, Dying/Sterben and The Bad Guys 2
A quartet of movies released in the week of July 25th, 2025
Gazer review: An impressive, lo-fi and disarmingly intense debut
Ariella Mastroianni is mesmerising as woman struggling with fractured family and fragmented psyche
Dying review: Dark family saga shows living, like dying, is a messy business
Sweeping intergenerational study of a fractured German family somehow finds a rhythm
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