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 BaleMon Jul 14 2025 - 05:02
Four new films to see this week: Pavements, Armand, Superman and Modigliani – Three Days on the Wing of MadnessJohnny Depp directs, and Al Pacino, David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan and Pavement appear in a quartet of movies released in the week of July 11th, 2025Sun Jul 13 2025 - 05:00
Armand review: An emergency parent-teacher conference bubbles into an unnerving psychological crucibleAn indelible, unsettling debut from Halfdan Ullmann Tondel, a grandson of Ingmar Bergman and Liv UllmannThu Jul 10 2025 - 05:01
Pavements review: Brilliantly unclassifiable salute to the 1990s indie-rock legends PavementAlex Ross Perry’s film is framed around Pavement’s 2022 reunion tour, but it quickly spirals outwards into giddy metafictionWed 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’ 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 enchantedMon Jul 07 2025 - 05:03
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, 2025Sun Jul 06 2025 - 05:00
Sudan, Remember Us review: A brief moment of possibility punctuated by shocking violenceThis documentary by Hind Meddeb of a hopeful sit-in protest is a vital time capsule of the civil-war-racked country’s recent historyThu Jul 03 2025 - 05:00
Beat the Lotto review: An irresistible documentary about an audacious plan that captured Ireland’s imaginationDirector Ross Whitaker is perhaps best known for his portraits Katie Taylor and The Boys in GreenWed 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’The Shrouds is an intensely personal film for the maker of The Fly, Dead Ringers and CrashTue Jul 01 2025 - 05:14
Four new films to see this week: F1, From Hilde, with Love, The Moon Is Upside Down and M3gan 2.0Kerry Condon, Brad Pitt, Liv Lisa Fries, Johannes Hegemann and Allison Williams feature in these movies released in the week of June 27th, 2025Sun Jun 29 2025 - 05:00
From Hilde, with Love: A powerful, elegiac story of resistance to the Third ReichThe young couple at the centre of this compelling film are quiet idealists given to neither grand pontification nor cinematic heroismThu Jun 26 2025 - 05:03
The Moon Is Upside Down: This poignantly awkward dramedy could feature cinema’s clumsiest sex sceneLoren Taylor’s unabashedly feminine dramedy intertwines the lives of three women each grappling with their own crisisThu Jun 26 2025 - 05:02
Hot Milk: A heated affair, an overbearing Fiona Shaw and some shameful Irish sexualityThe 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/eJodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, Liza Minnelli and Genesis P-Orridge feature in these movies released in the week of June 20th, 2025Sun 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’ Filipino-American actor (15) plays a misfit kid whisked across the galaxy in Pixar’s latest bid for renewed box-office dominanceThu Jun 19 2025 - 05:15
S/He Is Still Her/e review: Genesis P-Orridge film offers invaluable glimpses into a radical lifeP-Orridge lived many selves, spanning punk rebellion, gender reinvention, occult philosophy and moreThu Jun 19 2025 - 05:12
Elio review: Pixar’s all-ages pleasures are in short supply in strangely half-formed animationCreative shifts during the film’s troubled production are all too evident in its on-screen storytellingTue Jun 17 2025 - 17:00
Four new films to see this week: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, How to Train Your Dragon, Tornado and LollipopA quartet of movies released in the week of June 13th, 2025Sun 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’The French director’s Austen-influenced romcom with a clever spin was inspired by a stint working at Paris bookshop Shakespeare and CompanyThu Jun 12 2025 - 05:14
Tornado review: A singular, if rarely easy, watch about double-crossing rogues on the rampageJohn Maclean returns to the austere storytelling that defined Slow West, his well-regarded debut, in a film of stark silences and oppressive atmosphericsThu Jun 12 2025 - 05:01
Lollipop review: This socially aware film is maddening, urgent viewingDaisy-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 bureaucracyWed Jun 11 2025 - 05:00
Your Monster: Audacious debut swerves from romcom to horror. Be prepared for it to cast a spellWriter-director’s auspicious debut sustains audacious tonal balancing actThu 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 AnimalsThe cult Australian director’s latest movie pits the oceans’ apex predators against human savageryThu Jun 05 2025 - 05:01
Dangerous Animals review: Jaws meets Wolf Creek in this watery Ozploitation movieNot 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 weekSundance 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 retoolingSun Jun 01 2025 - 05:00
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 followingThu 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’Tim Key and Tom Basden’s new film has been almost two decades in the making. It’s well worth the waitThu May 29 2025 - 04:59
Karate Kid: Legends review – The villain’s an unruly MMA fighter named Conor. Insert your own jokeThe latest addition to the franchise lacks the fun of earlier films in the seriesWed 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 backCannes Diary: Plus reviews of Alpha, Highest 2 Lowest and PillionThu May 22 2025 - 10:24
When the Light Breaks review: Emotionally astute drama is a bonsai miniature of overwhelming griefElín Hall is a revelation, her blank features signalling multitudes as she tries to get through a period of sudden mourningThu May 22 2025 - 05:00
Paul Mescal tries hard but ultimately The History of Sound is way too flimsyCannes 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 Diary: Plus reviews of The Chronology of Water, Nouvelle Vague and Die, My LoveMon May 19 2025 - 15:16
The Phoenician Scheme review: Beautiful to look at, but like a museum vase – pretty, pristine and hollowWes Anderson’s film, starring Benicio Del Toro and Mia Threapleton, makes little advance on the director’s recent airless productionsSun May 18 2025 - 19:00
Four new films to see this weekExcellent 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 abroadSun 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’ The Flats is a riveting new film about the New Lodge complex in Belfast, whose residents are still coping with the trauma of the TroublesSat 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 JawsCrowd-pleasing tale of Spielberg movie mixes heartfelt details with top-notch film buffery and broad physical comedyThu May 15 2025 - 09:09
‘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 1988Thu May 15 2025 - 05:07
Good One review: This low-key coming-of-age drama is a sneaky revelationLily Collias can do more with a raised eyebrow than most actors can manage with a soliloquyThu May 15 2025 - 05:05
Magic Farm review: Chloë Sevigny channels Gen X-worthy self-deprecation in surreal satire that skewers Americans abroadComedic tone is ill met by tonal inconsistencies, flat punchlines and a lack of momentumThu May 15 2025 - 05:01
Four new films to see this weekPortrait 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 BanquetSun May 11 2025 - 05:00
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
The Wedding Banquet review: Charming cast outshine the flimsy material in fluffy remake of Ang Lee’s indie classicLily Gladstone and Kelly Marie Tran are as warm and well-worn as a much-loved bed sweaterThu May 08 2025 - 04:59
Ocean with David Attenborough review: Age has done little to quell the naturalist’s intellectual curiosity and childlike wonder This engaging portrait of sea-life is being released around the world on his 99th birthdayWed May 07 2025 - 05:01
Thunderbolts* star Florence Pugh on getting her way: ‘I was very sassy. I cornered a few people’ Florence Pugh knew what she wanted to do after she joined Marvel’s cast: jump off one of the world’s tallest buildings Mon May 05 2025 - 06:15
Four new films to see this weekThunderbolts*, Amongst the Wolves, Screamboat and Parthenope among film highlightsSun May 04 2025 - 05:00
Screamboat: Mickey Mouse as a violent psychopath is no classic, but gory twist on Disney knows its audienceLow-rent bid to monetise the newly public-domain Steamboat Willie embraces violent mayhem with gusto Thu May 01 2025 - 05:01
Parthenope: Paolo Sorrentino’s most leering film since his Berlusconi biopicItalian auteur’s 11th feature is an ode to Naples too many. It also creates indelible momentsWed Apr 30 2025 - 05:01
Four new films to see this weekFréwaka is an eerie, subtle delve into Celtic mythology. Plus a gruesome Norwegian reworking of Cinderella, Naomi Watts and Bill Murray in a gentle story of friendship, and a thoroughly original drama from GeorgiaSun Apr 27 2025 - 05:00
The Ugly Stepsister: This Cinderella story is gruesome, hilarious and definitely not for childrenDirector Emilie Blichfeldt puts the grim back in the Brothers Grimm with revolting close-ups of body modifications, maggots and moultingThu Apr 24 2025 - 05:00
Fréwaka review: Aislinn Clarke’s Gaeltacht horror mines Irish mythology for socially conscious spookeryTerrific performances by Clare Monnelly and Bríd Ní Neachtain keep us guessing about what’s afootWed Apr 23 2025 - 05:00
