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
April director Dea Kulumbegashvili: ‘The woman was still alive, but they already knew they would not be able to save her’The film-maker was taken aback by an incident at a hospital as she prepared to make her second feature. Everyday life in Georgia can be horrible, she saysMon Apr 21 2025 - 04:59
Verdigris review: Irish director Patricia Kelly’s remarkable debut is a delicate drama about tricky subjectsPatricia Kelly’s first film is powered along by tremendous performances from Geraldine McAlinden and Maya O’SheaThu Apr 17 2025 - 05:00
Grand Tour review: An epic, enchanting globe-trotting adventure The Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes thoroughly deserved his best-director award at CannesWed Apr 16 2025 - 05:01
Julie Keeps Quiet director Leonardo Van Dijl: ‘I didn’t want to make a film about a hashtag’The director’s debut feature is a gripping post-#MeToo drama about a teenage tennis prodigy. Has she been groomed? Mon Apr 14 2025 - 04:59
Four new films to see this weekEngrossing Lennon/Ono doc is a fascinating time capsule. Plus an amusing Irish spin-off, a gritty, austere take on The Odyssey, and an exuberant, smash-hit French comedy Sun Apr 13 2025 - 05:00
Holy Cow review: Box-office smash powered along by youthful exuberance, earthy sex scenes and keen naturalismLouise Courvoisier’s film about an orphaned teen on a mission to make a prize-winning wheel of cheese has been a huge hit in FranceWed Apr 09 2025 - 05:00
The Return: In Ralph Fiennes’s new film, a minimalist take on The Odyssey, even the loincloths are skimpy Uberto Pasolini’s adaptation of the gory closing chapters of Homer’s epic poem eschews witches, monsters and goddesses in favour of PTSDWed Apr 09 2025 - 04:59
Four new films to see this weekPleasant Irish comedy Four Mothers, plus Richard Burton’s origin story, a cracking British thriller, and a slacker vibe video game adaptationSun Apr 06 2025 - 05:00
A Minecraft Movie director Jared Hess: ‘On a big movie there’s so much to do, so much to pull off. You’re always dry-heaving’Hess, the film-maker behind the 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite, on his love of Minecraft, working with Jack Black and making a big budget filmFri Apr 04 2025 - 05:01
A Minecraft Movie review: Jason Momoa and Jack Black have a ball in a proudly silly family adventureThere’s plenty here for fans of Minecraft to recognise and enjoyThu Apr 03 2025 - 08:39
Mr Burton review: Absorbing Richard Burton origin story features a tremendous Harry Lawtey as the future Hollywood starLawtey doesn’t simply inhabit the role in Marc Evan’s fine biopic: he metamorphosisesThu Apr 03 2025 - 05:00
John and Yoko’s One to One gig: ‘This was his only full-length concert after leaving The Beatles. It’s of huge significance’Kevin Macdonald on his new film, based around the benefit event Lennon and Ono performed at in New York in 1972 Mon Mar 31 2025 - 04:45
La Cocina review: A kitchen drama that makes The Bear feel like listening to Enya in a garden centreAlonso Ruizpalacios’s thrilling, sprawling drama is seldom less than operatic, with an emotional register to matchThu Mar 27 2025 - 05:00
Misericordia review: We know whodunit in this Hitchcockian murder-comedy. But what’s everyone else up to?This heavily decorated French film offers a heady and murky marriage of enigmatic motivations, sexual and otherwiseWed Mar 26 2025 - 05:00
Novocaine star Amber Midthunder: ‘I have been so fortunate to work with actors like Liam Neeson. I nerd out with myself’Playing a romantic role in a Hollywood movie may not be as exhilarating as killing a Predator in Prey, but it is, she says, a significant step forwardMon Mar 24 2025 - 05:04
Four new films to see this weekRachel Zegler the best thing in misfire updating of Snow White. Plus an Oscar-winning Latvian animation, a compelling Chinese domestic drama, and Robert De Niro in a superfluous sub-Goodfellas mob taleSun Mar 23 2025 - 05:00
Snow White review: Live-action reimagining of the classic 1937 film is a muddled messMost distracting flaws are rooted in problematic re-creation of animated material in ‘live action’ cinemaWed Mar 19 2025 - 19:00
The Alto Knights review: Robert De Niro’s gimmicky mobster double act is an unnecessary distractionThere’s so much mobsplaining in Barry Levinson’s messy Mafia movie it feels like a Wikipedia entryWed Mar 19 2025 - 18:00
Away: After all those cheap and nasty children’s movies, here’s a gemFilm review: Gints Zilbalodis made this gorgeous feature-length animation entirely by himselfMon Mar 17 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week: Black Bag, Sister Midnight, Opus, The Electric StateSteven Sodergergh’s starry espionage caper is sleek and stylish. Plus an inventive Indian caper, an oddball popstar horror, and a blandly expensive sci-fi bust on NetflixSun Mar 16 2025 - 05:00
Oscar winner Gints Zilbalodis: ‘It’s really cool that we can make these films with free software’Flow, which the self-taught director made for $3.5m, beat Pixar and DreamWorks to take the Academy Award for best animated featureSat Mar 15 2025 - 05:22
The Electric State: Netflix gives the Russos $320m and this is all they have to show for it?The brothers try to deliver some Spielberg-style wide-eyed magic but serve up a sorry action flickThu Mar 13 2025 - 05:02
Opus: John Malkovich’s bopping saves this inventive but frustrating horror filmAyo Edebiri is a notebook-clutching Nancy Drew in this exploration of cult celebrityWed Mar 12 2025 - 05:01
Sister Midnight director Karan Kandhari: ‘I don’t know how, but we snuck this film through the British system’An extravagantly original fable about marriage, bad housekeeping and some kind of vampirism Mon Mar 10 2025 - 09:36
Plankton: The Movie review – Who knew marital discord could be so much fun for all ages?There are many things to love about the latest in a series of character-driven SpongeBob spin-off filmsFri Mar 07 2025 - 08:00
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found – Moving portrait of an exiled apartheid photographerThis documentary relocates its subject at the nexus of ANC truth-and-reconciliation hearings, Jim Crow laws and New York street lifeThu Mar 06 2025 - 05:00
Actor Anamaria Vartolomei: ‘I’m 25 now. I started when I was 10. I’ve been working for 15 years. It sounds weird when I say it’The star of Happening, Being Maria and Traffic appears next in Bong Joon Ho’s futuristic new film, Mickey 17Sun Mar 02 2025 - 05:15
Vermiglio review: Captivating chronicle of the hardships and eccentricities of an ever-expanding familyMaura Delpero has based her deserving Venice prize-winner on her own family’s wartime experiencesThu Feb 27 2025 - 05:01
The People’s Joker: The most innovative superhero film of the decadeWarner Bros and DC Films don’t like it but Vera Drew’s punk bildungsroman leaves rivals in the shadeWed Feb 26 2025 - 05:01
Apartheid South Africa: ‘Ernest Cole’s photographs were the first that told the story from inside the beast’Raoul Peck, director of Ernest Cole: Lost & Found, on his new film about the trailblazing photographerMon Feb 24 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekMulti-Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here. Plus bloody good Stephen King horror, doc on Man U’s Peter Schmeichel, and a weirdly misshapen Irish(ish) dramaSun Feb 23 2025 - 07:55
Pamela Anderson: ‘I felt like life was really like death for me’The former Baywatch star hasn’t always come out on top. But with her role in Gia Coppola’s gritty film The Last Showgirl, she is finally getting the respect she deservesSat Feb 22 2025 - 06:01
September Says review: A Greek weird wave star has set her new film in some kind of AI-generated Ireland. Why?There’s something oddly misshapen about Ireland in Ariane Labed’s film, like one of those AI art fails in which everyone has the wrong number of armsThu Feb 20 2025 - 05:03
Schmeichel review: Eric Cantona, Alex Ferguson and Gary Neville line out. But where’s Roy Keane? Owen Davies’s engaging documentary portrait on the retired Danish footballer lacks a Keane edgeWed Feb 19 2025 - 10:28
‘Eunice had a unique inner strength. It’s like a volcano that never spills’: Walter Salles on the Oscar-nominated I’m Still HereThe film, based on the real story of the forced disappearance of a dissident in 1970s Brazil, is a box-office sensation in its native Brazil despite right-wing calls for a boycottMon Feb 17 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekLatest Bridget Jones is both properly funny and unexpectedly poignant. Plus: drama of rootless Palestinians in Greece, eccentric adults-only Aussie animation, and Fugazi crowd-sourced concert docSun Feb 16 2025 - 05:00
Memoir of a Snail review: A lovely, heartfelt creation from an Oscar-winning animatorAdam Elliot has created a dark, antipodean fable of divided siblingsThu Feb 13 2025 - 05:00
We Are Fugazi from Washington, DC review: Fan-sourced film captures legendary US punks in all their glory Even plucked from the archives, these are the best gigs you’ll see in 2025Wed Feb 12 2025 - 05:00
To a Land Unknown director Mahdi Fleifel: ‘Getting a film made is a miracle. Getting a Palestinian film made is more than that’Refugee-themed thriller offers a timely insight into the complex consequences of statelessnessTue Feb 11 2025 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekEngrossing drama about Munich Olympics hostage crisis. Plus long but twist Iranian thriller, Barry Keoghan in ersatz Irish western, and acceptable female boxing biopicSun Feb 09 2025 - 05:00
The Fire Inside review: The Olympic champion Claressa ‘T-Rex’ Shields deserves an Oscar-worthy biopic. This isn’t quite thatThis Barry Jenkins-scripted sports drama has enough quality to please genre and sports enthusiasts but feels like an undercard fixtureThu Feb 06 2025 - 05:10
September 5 review: Tightly assembled thriller revisits the Munich Olympics hostage crisisThe lack of geopolitical context is questionable, but the film-making is sound Wed Feb 05 2025 - 05:00
A flogging and eight years in prison: The risks Mohammad Rasoulof ran to make the Oscar-nominated Seed of the Sacred Fig The nail-biting thriller is one of the most-lauded films of the past year - and making it involved secret shoots as well as interrogation by Iranian authoritiesTue Feb 04 2025 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekMike Leigh’s latest drama is ‘desperately moving’. Plus evocative doc on Edna O’Brien, a clever spin on The Stepford Wives, and a lovely, low-key anime from JapanSun Feb 02 2025 - 05:00
Companion review: Sophie Thatcher is the scream queen to beat in this post-AI spin on The Stepford WivesDocile, robot heroine becomes the victim in Drew Hancock’s playful horror comedyThu Jan 30 2025 - 05:00
The Colors Within review: The story of a socially awkward Catholic student and her friends Naoko Yamada’s gentle animated drama has all of the yearning and discomfort of adolescenceWed Jan 29 2025 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekAstonishing epic The Brutalist practically groans with ambition. Plus lo-fi spooker Presence, heartfelt indie drama Parachute, and affectionate Naples portrait Posso Entrare?Sun Jan 26 2025 - 05:00
