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Bring Her Back review: Sally Hawkins weaponises her Paddington-mom screen persona in this gorily audacious horror

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

Thu Jul 31 2025 - 05:06
Oslo Stories: Dreams (Sex Love) review – The first part of Dag Johan Haugerud’s trilogy is intimate, ambiguous and lingering

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

Wed Jul 30 2025 - 05:04
Late Shift star Leonie Benesch: ‘The biggest shock was realising how broken health systems are globally’

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

Mon Jul 28 2025 - 05:03
Four new films to see this week: The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Gazer, Dying/Sterben and The Bad Guys 2

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

Sun Jul 27 2025 - 05:00
Gazer review: An impressive, lo-fi and disarmingly intense debut

Gazer review: An impressive, lo-fi and disarmingly intense debut

Ariella Mastroianni is mesmerising as woman struggling with fractured family and fragmented psyche

Fri Jul 25 2025 - 05:08
Dying review: Dark family saga shows living, like dying, is a messy business

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

Thu 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’

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 comedy

The Other Way Around review: A witty and cerebral romantic comedy

Jonás Trueba’s film initially evokes mature classics, before veering into playfully modernist territory

Fri Jul 18 2025 - 05:06
Harvest review: Trippy medieval parable where allegory overpowers the drama

Harvest review: Trippy medieval parable where allegory overpowers the drama

Athina Rachel Tsangari’s first English-language film, adapted from the Jim Crace novel, is meticulously crafted yet oddly two-dimensional

Fri 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’

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 Bale

Mon Jul 14 2025 - 05:02
Four new films to see this week: Pavements, Armand, Superman and Modigliani – Three Days on the Wing of Madness

Four new films to see this week: Pavements, Armand, Superman and Modigliani – Three Days on the Wing of Madness

Johnny Depp directs, and Al Pacino, David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan and Pavement appear in a quartet of movies released in the week of July 11th, 2025

Sun Jul 13 2025 - 05:00
Armand review: An emergency parent-teacher conference bubbles into an unnerving psychological crucible

Armand review: An emergency parent-teacher conference bubbles into an unnerving psychological crucible

An indelible, unsettling debut from Halfdan Ullmann Tondel, a grandson of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann

Thu Jul 10 2025 - 05:01
Pavements review: Brilliantly unclassifiable salute to the 1990s indie-rock legends Pavement

Pavements review: Brilliantly unclassifiable salute to the 1990s indie-rock legends Pavement

Alex Ross Perry’s film is framed around Pavement’s 2022 reunion tour, but it quickly spirals outwards into giddy metafiction

Wed 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’

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 enchanted

Mon Jul 07 2025 - 05:03
Four new films to see this week: Jurassic World Rebirth, The Shrouds, Beat the Lotto and Sudan, Remember Us

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, 2025

Sun Jul 06 2025 - 05:00
Sudan, Remember Us review: A brief moment of possibility punctuated by shocking violence

Sudan, Remember Us review: A brief moment of possibility punctuated by shocking violence

This documentary by Hind Meddeb of a hopeful sit-in protest is a vital time capsule of the civil-war-racked country’s recent history

Thu Jul 03 2025 - 05:00
Beat the Lotto review: An irresistible documentary about an audacious plan that captured Ireland’s imagination

Beat the Lotto review: An irresistible documentary about an audacious plan that captured Ireland’s imagination

Director Ross Whitaker is perhaps best known for his portraits Katie Taylor and The Boys in Green

Wed 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’

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 Crash

Tue Jul 01 2025 - 05:14
Four new films to see this week: F1, From Hilde, with Love, The Moon Is Upside Down and M3gan 2.0

Four new films to see this week: F1, From Hilde, with Love, The Moon Is Upside Down and M3gan 2.0

Kerry Condon, Brad Pitt, Liv Lisa Fries, Johannes Hegemann and Allison Williams feature in these movies released in the week of June 27th, 2025

Sun Jun 29 2025 - 05:00
From Hilde, with Love: A powerful, elegiac story of resistance to the Third Reich

From Hilde, with Love: A powerful, elegiac story of resistance to the Third Reich

The young couple at the centre of this compelling film are quiet idealists given to neither grand pontification nor cinematic heroism

Thu Jun 26 2025 - 05:03
The Moon Is Upside Down: This poignantly awkward dramedy could feature cinema’s clumsiest sex scene

The Moon Is Upside Down: This poignantly awkward dramedy could feature cinema’s clumsiest sex scene

Loren Taylor’s unabashedly feminine dramedy intertwines the lives of three women each grappling with their own crisis

Thu Jun 26 2025 - 05:02
Hot Milk: A heated affair, an overbearing Fiona Shaw and some shameful Irish sexuality

Hot Milk: A heated affair, an overbearing Fiona Shaw and some shameful Irish sexuality

The 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/e

Four new films to see this week: 28 Years Later, Elio, Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story, and S/He Is Still Her/e

Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, Liza Minnelli and Genesis P-Orridge feature in these movies released in the week of June 20th, 2025

Sun 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’

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 dominance

Thu Jun 19 2025 - 05:15
S/He Is Still Her/e review: Genesis P-Orridge film offers invaluable glimpses into a radical life

S/He Is Still Her/e review: Genesis P-Orridge film offers invaluable glimpses into a radical life

P-Orridge lived many selves, spanning punk rebellion, gender reinvention, occult philosophy and more

Thu Jun 19 2025 - 05:12
Elio review: Pixar’s all-ages pleasures are in short supply in strangely half-formed animation

Elio review: Pixar’s all-ages pleasures are in short supply in strangely half-formed animation

Creative shifts during the film’s troubled production are all too evident in its on-screen storytelling

Tue Jun 17 2025 - 17:00
Four new films to see this week: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, How to Train Your Dragon, Tornado and Lollipop

Four new films to see this week: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, How to Train Your Dragon, Tornado and Lollipop

A quartet of movies released in the week of June 13th, 2025

Sun 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’

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 Company

Thu Jun 12 2025 - 05:14
Tornado review: A singular, if rarely easy, watch about double-crossing rogues on the rampage

Tornado review: A singular, if rarely easy, watch about double-crossing rogues on the rampage

John Maclean returns to the austere storytelling that defined Slow West, his well-regarded debut, in a film of stark silences and oppressive atmospherics

Thu Jun 12 2025 - 05:01
Lollipop review: This socially aware film is maddening, urgent viewing

Lollipop review: This socially aware film is maddening, urgent viewing

Daisy-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 bureaucracy

Wed Jun 11 2025 - 05:00
Your Monster: Audacious debut swerves from romcom to horror. Be prepared for it to cast a spell

Your Monster: Audacious debut swerves from romcom to horror. Be prepared for it to cast a spell

Writer-director’s auspicious debut sustains audacious tonal balancing act

Thu Jun 05 2025 - 05:01
‘I couldn’t resist the fact that the sharks weren’t the monsters’: Sean Byrne on making the thriller Dangerous Animals

‘I couldn’t resist the fact that the sharks weren’t the monsters’: Sean Byrne on making the thriller Dangerous Animals

The cult Australian director’s latest movie pits the oceans’ apex predators against human savagery

Thu Jun 05 2025 - 05:01
Dangerous Animals review: Jaws meets Wolf Creek in this watery Ozploitation movie

Dangerous Animals review: Jaws meets Wolf Creek in this watery Ozploitation movie

Not especially gripping or intriguing, but it rattles along as effective B-movie gore

Wed Jun 04 2025 - 05:01
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Sundance hit The Ballad of Wallis Island is a cult comedy fave in the making. Plus a strong French melodrama, a troubled British couple on the move, and another routine Karate Kid retooling

Sun Jun 01 2025 - 05:00
The Ballad of Wallis Island review: Is this crowd-pleaser one of the best British films of all time?

The Ballad of Wallis Island review: Is this crowd-pleaser one of the best British films of all time?

Richard Curtis thinks so, and the melancholic, wry and character-driven comedy has already developed a cult following

Thu May 29 2025 - 05:00
The Ballad of Wallis Island: ‘Anyone can hypothetically write Carey Mulligan into their little thing. She was top of our list’

The Ballad of Wallis Island: ‘Anyone can hypothetically write Carey Mulligan into their little thing. She was top of our list’

Tim Key and Tom Basden’s new film has been almost two decades in the making. It’s well worth the wait

Thu May 29 2025 - 04:59
Karate Kid: Legends review – The villain’s an unruly MMA fighter named Conor. Insert your own joke

Karate Kid: Legends review – The villain’s an unruly MMA fighter named Conor. Insert your own joke

The latest addition to the franchise lacks the fun of earlier films in the series

Wed May 28 2025 - 13:07
Cannes 2025: Julian Assange makes for unlikely new star, walkouts at warts-and-all Shia LaBeouf film - and Brigitte Bardot is back

Cannes 2025: Julian Assange makes for unlikely new star, walkouts at warts-and-all Shia LaBeouf film - and Brigitte Bardot is back

Cannes Diary: Plus reviews of Alpha, Highest 2 Lowest and Pillion

Thu May 22 2025 - 10:24
When the Light Breaks review: Emotionally astute drama is a bonsai miniature of overwhelming grief

When the Light Breaks review: Emotionally astute drama is a bonsai miniature of overwhelming grief

Elín Hall is a revelation, her blank features signalling multitudes as she tries to get through a period of sudden mourning

Thu May 22 2025 - 05:00
Paul Mescal tries hard but ultimately The History of Sound is way too flimsy

Paul Mescal tries hard but ultimately The History of Sound is way too flimsy

Cannes Festival: Adaptation of Ben Shattuck’s musically themed short story brings Mescal together with Josh O’Connor

Wed May 21 2025 - 19:30
Cannes 2025: An emotional screening of My Mom Jayne, and Kristen Stewart’s ‘big Cannes energy’

Cannes 2025: An emotional screening of My Mom Jayne, and Kristen Stewart’s ‘big Cannes energy’

Cannes Diary: Plus reviews of The Chronology of Water, Nouvelle Vague and Die, My Love

Mon May 19 2025 - 15:16
The Phoenician Scheme review: Beautiful to look at, but like a museum vase – pretty, pristine and hollow

The Phoenician Scheme review: Beautiful to look at, but like a museum vase – pretty, pristine and hollow

Wes Anderson’s film, starring Benicio Del Toro and Mia Threapleton, makes little advance on the director’s recent airless productions

Sun May 18 2025 - 19:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Excellent performances in harrowing thriller Hallow Road. Plus an enjoyably nasty comic horror sequel, a low-key coming of age drama and a scattershot satire of Americans abroad

Sun May 18 2025 - 05:00
Trauma of the Troubles: ‘I threw my first petrol bomb when I was nine. I felt like a man after that’

Trauma of the Troubles: ‘I threw my first petrol bomb when I was nine. I felt like a man after that’

The Flats is a riveting new film about the New Lodge complex in Belfast, whose residents are still coping with the trauma of the Troubles

Sat May 17 2025 - 05:05
The Shark Is Broken review: Ian Shaw is uncannily like his father in this inventive, irreverent play about the making of Jaws

The Shark Is Broken review: Ian Shaw is uncannily like his father in this inventive, irreverent play about the making of Jaws

Crowd-pleasing tale of Spielberg movie mixes heartfelt details with top-notch film buffery and broad physical comedy

Thu May 15 2025 - 09:09
‘We’re building a deaf empire, making things rather than waiting for Hollywood to greenlight them’

‘We’re building a deaf empire, making things rather than waiting for Hollywood to greenlight them’

Deaf President Now! directors Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim on their documentary about the Gallaudet University protests of 1988

Thu May 15 2025 - 05:07
Good One review: This low-key coming-of-age drama is a sneaky revelation

Good One review: This low-key coming-of-age drama is a sneaky revelation

Lily Collias can do more with a raised eyebrow than most actors can manage with a soliloquy

Thu May 15 2025 - 05:05
Magic Farm review: Chloë Sevigny channels Gen X-worthy self-deprecation in surreal satire that skewers Americans abroad

Magic Farm review: Chloë Sevigny channels Gen X-worthy self-deprecation in surreal satire that skewers Americans abroad

Comedic tone is ill met by tonal inconsistencies, flat punchlines and a lack of momentum

Thu May 15 2025 - 05:01
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Portrait of the Nazi movie propagandist Leni Riefenstahl still outrages. Plus a fascinatingly freaky Nicolas Cage vehicle, David Attenborough’s voyage to the bottom of the sea, and a so-so remake of Ang Lee’s one-time indie hit The Wedding Banquet

Sun May 11 2025 - 05:00
Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler’s favourite film-maker: ‘After the first page of Mein Kampf she became an enthusiastic Nazi’

Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler’s favourite film-maker: ‘After the first page of Mein Kampf she became an enthusiastic Nazi’

Andres Veiel’s authoritative new documentary is a damning portrait of the German propagandist

Thu May 08 2025 - 05:08
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