La Grazia review: Paolo Sorrentino gets his groove back with a compelling political dramaToni Servillo impresses as an Italian president facing ethical and political crisesFri Mar 20 2026 - 05:06
Dead Man’s Wire review: Energetic dramatisation of real-life hostage crisisBill Skarsgård plays struggling businessman Tony Kiritsis with a volatile mix of grievance, bravado and wounded pride Thu Mar 19 2026 - 05:08
‘We said to Natalie Portman, we need you to protect the movie. And she did’Ugo Bienvenu, director of the Oscar-nominated animated film Arco, on sticking with his creative visionWed Mar 18 2026 - 05:13
Pálmason: ‘I wasn’t interested in making a film if it wasn’t rooted in my children and surroundings’The Love That Remains is a transportive comic crowd-pleaser about divorcing parents and their lively offspring and animalsMon Mar 16 2026 - 05:07
Four new films to see this week: One Last Deal, Resurrection, Scarlet and A Pale View of HillsDanny Dyer, Jackson Yee, Suzu Hirose and Yoh Yoshida feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of March 13th, 2026Sun Mar 15 2026 - 05:00
Scarlet review: An audacious anime riff on Hamlet that never quite comes togetherMamoru Hosoda’s visual imagination remains formidable but the storytelling proves less assuredFri Mar 13 2026 - 05:06
A Pale View of Hills review: visually elegant but its emotional core remains out of reachKei Ishikawa’s film simultaneously demonstrates the plusses and pitfalls of tackling Kazuo Ishiguro’s workThu Mar 12 2026 - 05:08
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man review – Cillian Murphy is magnetic, but this spin-off saga’s razor has dulledBarry Keoghan, as Duke Shelby, provides a volatility this offshoot of the TV series sorely needsThu Mar 05 2026 - 14:00
Sound of Falling director Mascha Schilinski: ‘We realised there were many repressed secrets’German film-maker on how her Cannes-winning second feature brings women’s voices out of the marginsWed Mar 04 2026 - 05:15
Báite: An absorbing, visually handsome murder mystery that never quite quickens the pulseRuán Magan’s Irish-language feature is adapted by Sheena Lambert from her own novel The LakeWed Mar 04 2026 - 05:06
Four new films to see this week: Scream 7, Sirat, All You Need Is Kill and AmplifiedNeve Campbell, Courteney Cox and Sergi López feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of February 27thSun Mar 01 2026 - 05:00
Amplified: The Exportation of the Culture Wars – disquieting study of weaponised rhetoricMike Sheridan’s first feature begins as study of toxic US discourse and expands into sobering excavation of Dublin unrestFri Feb 27 2026 - 05:08
All You Need Is Kill: Imaginative time-loop anime never leaves viewers feeling stuckKenichiro Akimoto’s film departs from Hollywood cousin Edge of Tomorrow with Skittle colours and shift in perspectiveThu Feb 26 2026 - 14:21
Oliver Laxe on the making of desert rave epic Sirat: ‘You jump into the abyss’‘Film-maker of the senses’ on his apocalyptic, Oscar-nominated sensation and being a ‘freak’ in SpainTue Feb 24 2026 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week: The Secret Agent, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, The Testament of Ann Lee and The MomentCharli XCX, Rose Byrne, Amanda Seyfried and Wagner Moura feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of February 20th, 2026Sun Feb 22 2026 - 05:00
Oscar nominee Rose Byrne: ‘When I go through passport control in Ireland they say welcome home’ The star on the ‘incendiary’ If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, her Australian identity and women in comedySat Feb 21 2026 - 05:21
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You: Maternal stress becomes searing, breathless psychodramaRose Byrne, Jessie Buckley’s biggest Oscar rival, is extraordinary in Mary Bronstein’s filmFri Feb 20 2026 - 05:08
The Secret Agent: Danger hums in nervy Brazilian thrillerLabyrinthine film set during military dictatorship evokes 1970s conspiracy chillersThu Feb 19 2026 - 17:00
Four new films to see this week, from Wuthering Heights to Crime 101Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of February 13th, 2026Sun Feb 15 2026 - 05:00
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain review: Playful, gorgeous and emotionally impactfulThis animation, set in 1960s Japan, reimagines an early colonial childhood as a period of intense metaphysical speculationThu Feb 12 2026 - 05:08
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie revels in its cartoonish artifice Directed by Peter Browngardt, the film is steeped in the grammar of the Looney Tunes’ golden ageWed Feb 11 2026 - 05:06
Life under Saddam Hussein: ‘A child being asked to bake a cake without flour or sugar was not absurd’Hasan Hadi’s film The President’s Cake centres on a deceptively simple premise: every year, schoolchildren were selected to make offerings for Saddam’s birthday, an impossible burdenWed Feb 11 2026 - 05:06
Four new films to see this week: A Quiet Love, Send Help, My Father’s Shadow and TwinlessRachel McAdams, Sope Dirisu, Dylan O’Brien, James Sweeney and Aisling Franciosi feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of February 6th, 2026Mon Feb 09 2026 - 04:58
Twinless review: Grief is seldom this entertainingJames Sweeney turns what initially feels like a jolly, quirky bromance into something far darker, more complex and hilariousThu Feb 05 2026 - 05:06
My Father’s Shadow review: An intimate family portrait and a deceptively sprawling portrait of Lagos Akinola Davies jnr’s film quietly marries personal and national histories in NigeriaWed Feb 04 2026 - 05:08
Morfydd Clark: ‘Hamlet is about the suffering of many to make a few people very wealthy. That felt painfully relevant’The Welsh actor on playing Ophelia in a new modern-day take, how bilingualism has shaped her, and the evergreen relevance of ShakespeareTue Feb 03 2026 - 05:01
Four new films to see this week: Is This Thing On?, Nouvelle Vague, Primate and Rabbit TrapWill Arnett, Laura Dern, Zoey Deutch, Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 30th, 2026Sun Feb 01 2026 - 04:48
Aisling Franciosi: ‘I’m doing exactly what I dreamed of doing when I was a kid’The Dublin-born actor adds warmth and understated comedic flair to her role in James Sweeney’s TwinlessFri Jan 30 2026 - 05:14
Rabbit Trap review: Folk horror that makes the ears twitch but raises few goosebumpsThough technically assured, this film set in the Welsh countryside in 1976 remains curiously hollow Thu Jan 29 2026 - 05:06
Primate review: Johannes Roberts creature feature offers joyfully disposable entertainmentNod to ethics gets left behind as rabid chimp runs riot among college kidsWed Jan 28 2026 - 05:08
Four new films to see this week: The History of Sound, Mercy, No Other Choice and H Is for HawkPaul Mescal, Chris Pratt, Lee Byung-hun, Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 23rd, 2026Sun Jan 25 2026 - 04:53
H Is for Hawk review: Sensitive, patient and exasperatingly stillClaire Foy and a bird of prey star in a study of grief stifled, displaced and occasionally stuffed in a woman-sized cardboard boxFri Jan 23 2026 - 05:08
No Other Choice review: Park Chan-wook leans hard into slapstick in savage satireKorean director remains ever the stylist but cartoonishness eclipses capitalist critique in this timely adaptationThu Jan 22 2026 - 05:06
No Other Choice director Park Chan-wook: ‘That is the challenge of cinema – how to communicate inner life without explaining it’In the Korean auteur’s new film, the Squid Game star Lee Byung-hun ends up doing what capitalism did to himMon Jan 19 2026 - 05:01
Four new films to see this week: Rental Family, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, The Voice of Hind Rajab, Megadeth: Behind the MaskBrendan Fraser, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell and Dave Mustaine feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 16th, 2026Sun Jan 18 2026 - 04:52
European Film Awards 2026: Sentimental Value big winner at politically charged ceremonyPalestine features in several categories, while Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi speaks about oppression in his countrySat Jan 17 2026 - 22:39
Megadeth: Behind the Mask review – Dave Mustaine thrashes it out about cancer, Cliff Burton and MetallicaOne of the frankest frontmen in metal is in contemplative if occasionally irascible moodFri Jan 16 2026 - 05:08
The Voice of Hind Rajab review: A clear-headed chronicle of a Palestinian tragedyThe film’s spine is its use of the real audio recordings of the child of the title trapped in a car under Israeli fire in Gaza Thu Jan 15 2026 - 05:06
Four new films to see this week: Hamnet, Giant, Oh, Canada and People We Meet on VacationJessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Pierce Brosnan, Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 9th, 2026Sun Jan 11 2026 - 04:46
50 films to see in 2026: Dune and Toy Story 5 among big releases Superheroes, prequels, sequels and myth: There’s something to suit everyone’s in cinemas next yearSat Jan 10 2026 - 05:28
People We Meet on Vacation review: A slight, light and unconvincing romcomSleek costumes and seasoned comedy are wasted in this sunny but saccharine film from Brett HaleyFri Jan 09 2026 - 11:00
Oh, Canada review: Richard Gere and director Paul Schrader reunite in poignant new filmJacob Elordi portrays a younger version of Gere’s character in a fragmented narrative exploring memory, desire and self-mythologyFri Jan 09 2026 - 05:08
‘Doing nothing is being complicit. This film is a way not to be complicit’Kaouther Ben Hania, director of The Voice of Hind Rajab, on the moral imperative to tell this tragic story from GazaTue Jan 06 2026 - 05:03
Four new films to see this week: Saipan, Menu-Plaisir: Les Troisgros, Peter Hujar’s Day and Song Sung Blue Steve Coogan, Éanna Hardwicke, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 2nd, 2026Mon Jan 05 2026 - 09:09
Peter Hujar’s Day review: Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall give theatrical masterclassesNothing much happens, yet everything is revealed, in this portrait of Hujar, at the time a little-known photographerThu Jan 01 2026 - 05:06
Menu-Plaisir: Les Troisgros review – A Michelin-starred feast that will leave you ravenousThere are no talking heads, no narration and no explanatory subtitles in Frederick Wiseman’s fantastic four-hour documentaryWed Dec 31 2025 - 05:08
Four new films to see this week: Marty Supreme, Cover-Up, Sentimental Value and David Bowie: The Final ActTimothée Chalamet, Seymour Hersh, Stellan Skarsgard and Renate Reinsve in a quartet of movies released in the week of December 26th, 2025Tue Dec 30 2025 - 06:00
Bowie: The Final Act - fond requiem from fan 10 years after star’s deathJonathan Stiasny’s film offers overview of iconic singer’s career with emphasis on his final artistic statement, BlackstarFri Dec 26 2025 - 05:06
Cover-Up review: Outstanding portrait of Seymour Hersh’s half-century of investigative journalismWithout journalists of Hersh’s calibre, we would be none the wiser about incidents including the 1968 massacre of a Vietnamese village by US soldiersThu Dec 25 2025 - 05:08
Elle Fanning: ‘Someone called their dad for the first time in years after Sentimental Value’The actress stars in Joachim Trier’s acclaimed Sentimental Value, which is an awards-season favouriteTue Dec 23 2025 - 05:12
