Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale review – Tiresome curtain call could turn ardent monarchists into Kneecap fans
For anyone except diehard fans, the third film from the hit TV show will feel like midseason filler
Robert Sheehan: ‘Living in Ireland helps with everything. Everyone feels like they’ve known you forever’
The actor discusses his craft, fame and cutting down forests as a ruthless emperor in Marvel Comics’ Red Sonja
Four new films to see this week: Highest 2 Lowest, The Cut, Sanatorium and Honey Don’t!
Denzel Washington, Orlando Bloom, Caitríona Balfe and Margaret Qualley feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 5th, 2025
Honey Don’t! review: This queered-up take on noir cliches amounts to nothing
Nothing lands in the second instalment of Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s unwanted lesbian B-movie trilogy
Sanatorium review: Irish film-maker’s impressive documentary about an old Soviet retreat in Ukraine
The contemporary conflict wisely remains off-screen as visitors seek treatment for everything from fertility issues to psoriasis
First Look: A House of Dynamite, Kathryn Bigelow’s rattling nuclear potboiler, feels agonisingly real
Venice International Film Festival 2025: Oscarologists are already alive to the Academy Award possibilities for the director’s first film for eight years
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 stardom
First Look: Julia Roberts does her best, but After the Hunt feels like a pointless provocation
Venice International Film Festival 2025: Luca Guadagnino’s film is a dull retread of the PC-gone-mad arguments of the past quarter-century
Four new films to see this week: Caught Stealing, Christy, Young Mothers and Little Trouble Girls
Austin Butler, Zoë Kravitz, Danny Power and Diarmuid Noyes feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 29th, 2025
Little Trouble Girls: Lush, haunting story of a repressed teen’s sexual awakening
Named for a Sonic Youth song, Urska Djukic’s film captures the tension between virginal purity and messy adolescence
Young Mothers review: The Dardenne brothers bring empathy to interlocking stories of underage mothers in Liège
The Belgian film-makers’ 13th feature deftly weaves together the lives of five young women
Four new films to see this week: Sorry, Baby, The Life of Chuck, Eddington and Oslo Stories: Sex
Eva Victor, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal star in a quartet of movies released in the week of August 23rd, 2025
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 comedy
Oslo Stories: Sex review – A fitting climax to this appealing trilogy
This gentle exploration of masculinity, marriage and sexual orientation unfolds mostly through conversations between two chimney sweeps
Eddington review: Pandemic psychodrama starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal is a fascinating experiment
Ari Aster’s political satire is full of sound and fury, signifying something. If only we knew what that was