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Rebel Ridge: John Boyega quit Jeremy Saulnier’s long-delayed thriller. It’s actually pretty good

Rebel Ridge: John Boyega quit Jeremy Saulnier’s long-delayed thriller. It’s actually pretty good

The American auteur’s effective thriller arrives four years and two shutdowns after the cameras started rolling

Wed Sept 04 2024 - 17:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Haunting, old-school Irish horror Oddity, plus prison-set biopic Sing Sing starring Colman Domingo, transitioned Elliot Page in tailor-made Close to You, and social-realist Swedish drama Paradise Is Burning

Sun Sept 01 2024 - 05:00
Close to You review: Elliot Page brings a fascinating biographical dimension to this intimate drama

Close to You review: Elliot Page brings a fascinating biographical dimension to this intimate drama

Star of Juno and Whip It plays a trans man returning to the family home

Thu Aug 29 2024 - 05:00
Oddity: Nifty old-school horror from one of Ireland’s most exciting film-makers

Oddity: Nifty old-school horror from one of Ireland’s most exciting film-makers

Damian McCarthy’s directorial precision is complemented by wit and an imaginative backstory that deserves an expanded universe

Wed Aug 28 2024 - 05:00
Black Dog star Eddie Peng: ‘After 20 days I was thinking, come on, you can do this. I didn’t know if I was acting any more’

Black Dog star Eddie Peng: ‘After 20 days I was thinking, come on, you can do this. I didn’t know if I was acting any more’

The former pop star has a hugely demanding role in his irresistible new film: almost wordless, physically demanding and requiring motorbike stunts

Tue Aug 27 2024 - 05:15
Cuckoo: Spooky sanatorium thriller is a flamboyantly unhinged tribute to Eurohorror

Cuckoo: Spooky sanatorium thriller is a flamboyantly unhinged tribute to Eurohorror

Tilman Singer goes big – maybe too big – with this wild and unsettlingly ambiguous follow-up to Luz

Thu Aug 22 2024 - 05:00
Between the Temples: Anxious Jewish comedy strikes gold with Carol Kane and Jason Schwartzman

Between the Temples: Anxious Jewish comedy strikes gold with Carol Kane and Jason Schwartzman

It’s not quite the May-December romance of Harold and Maude, but Schwartzman and Kane waltz impeccably through this arrestingly unpredictable film

Wed Aug 21 2024 - 05:00
Carol Kane: ‘Making The Princess Bride, there was something a little bit otherworldly about that experience’

Carol Kane: ‘Making The Princess Bride, there was something a little bit otherworldly about that experience’

The star of Between the Temples on learning Hebrew, working with her idol Bill Murray, and a dangerously funny take on mutton sandwiches

Mon Aug 19 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Alien: Romulus has strong action, the same old plot. Plus atmospheric Chinese noir Only the River Flows, absorbing Canadian ballet doc Swan Song, and bland Netflix thriller The Union

Sun Aug 18 2024 - 05:00
Swan Song: Ballet goes punk rock in absorbing behind-the-scenes documentary

Swan Song: Ballet goes punk rock in absorbing behind-the-scenes documentary

Chelsea McMullan’s immersive, tactile portrait captures the small dramas, jangling nerves and stoicism in a production of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake

Thu Aug 15 2024 - 05:00
Only the River Flows: Wei Shujun’s hit noir will keep you guessing after the final credits

Only the River Flows: Wei Shujun’s hit noir will keep you guessing after the final credits

All is not as it seems in this evocatively shot thriller improbably adapted from an experimental postmodern novel

Thu Aug 15 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Kneecap, It Ends with Us, Tuesday, Borderlands

Sun Aug 11 2024 - 05:00
‘We cried the whole way through’: Colleen Hoover on watching It Ends With Us with her mother

‘We cried the whole way through’: Colleen Hoover on watching It Ends With Us with her mother

Bestselling author talks about BookTok, superfans and the domestic abuse that informed her book which has been released now as a film

Sat Aug 10 2024 - 05:15
Hollywoodgate: The Taliban, US military and $7bn of abandoned equipment

Hollywoodgate: The Taliban, US military and $7bn of abandoned equipment

Director Ibrahim Nash’at and producer Odessa Rae on their nerve-racking journey to film inside the glamorously named former American base

Sat Aug 10 2024 - 05:15
Tuesday review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus is tremendous in magic-realist tale about death

Tuesday review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus is tremendous in magic-realist tale about death

Croatian writer-director Daina Oniunas-Pusić fashions a timeless, visually arresting fable

Fri Aug 09 2024 - 05:00
It Ends with Us review: Plenty of meet-cute romance, but don’t mistake this Colleen Hoover adaptation for a romcom

It Ends with Us review: Plenty of meet-cute romance, but don’t mistake this Colleen Hoover adaptation for a romcom

Despite the seductively glamorous trappings, this is a drama about the intergenerational nature of domestic violence

Wed Aug 07 2024 - 15:00
The 50 best films on Netflix, plus gems from Disney+, Apple TV+, Prime Video and Paramount+

The 50 best films on Netflix, plus gems from Disney+, Apple TV+, Prime Video and Paramount+

From Arrival to The Zone of Interest, our picks also take in everything from Halloween and Lost in Translation to Lawrence of Arabia and Pinocchio

Mon Aug 05 2024 - 06:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Beautifully animated and told adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Kensuke’s Kingdom, plus excellent indie dramas Janet Planet and Shayda, and blandly unimaginative Harold and the Purple Crayon

Sun Aug 04 2024 - 05:00
Shayda: Realism and deft timing power this gripping domestic thriller along

Shayda: Realism and deft timing power this gripping domestic thriller along

Zar Amir Ebrahimi is tremendous as a young mother who has taken refuge from her abusive husband in director Noora Niasari’s semi-autobiographical debut feature

Thu Aug 01 2024 - 05:00
Kensuke’s Kingdom: Delightful family entertainment featuring Cillian Murphy in Michael Morpurgo’s swashbuckling adventure

Kensuke’s Kingdom: Delightful family entertainment featuring Cillian Murphy in Michael Morpurgo’s swashbuckling adventure

This animated film touches lightly on environmental themes, loss and history

Thu Aug 01 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Deadpool & Wolverine, I Saw the TV Glow, About Dry Grasses, Notes from Sheepland

Sun Jul 28 2024 - 05:00
Peaches: ‘F**k the Pain Away has resonated with people so deeply. It has continued to grow’

Peaches: ‘F**k the Pain Away has resonated with people so deeply. It has continued to grow’

Gaze film festival 2024: The electropunk pioneer broke through with her album The Teaches of Peaches, now the subject of an absorbing documentary

Sat Jul 27 2024 - 06:00
About Dry Grasses: You won’t want Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s epic film to end

About Dry Grasses: You won’t want Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s epic film to end

This portrait of an art teacher whose aesthetic sensibilities are at odds with his thrillingly awful personality feels like a great lost work of Russian literature

Thu Jul 25 2024 - 05:00
I Saw the TV Glow: Jane Schoenbrun’s haunting cult sensation will leave you reeling

I Saw the TV Glow: Jane Schoenbrun’s haunting cult sensation will leave you reeling

The trans community has embraced the film as an analogy for transition

Wed Jul 24 2024 - 05:00
Artist and shepherd Orla Barry: ‘Breeding animals is like making an artwork. You’re putting certain animals together’

Artist and shepherd Orla Barry: ‘Breeding animals is like making an artwork. You’re putting certain animals together’

Orla Barry took up farming as a more financially secure sideline to her art. As the new film Notes from Sheepland shows, it has proved equally precarious

Tue Jul 23 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Sleeper geezer pleaser Thelma, plus bombastic big-boom Twisters, Istanbul-set drama Crossing, and heightened Netflix documentary Skywalkers

Sun Jul 21 2024 - 05:00
Crossing: Sublime adventure as a haughty aunt searches for her estranged trans niece

Crossing: Sublime adventure as a haughty aunt searches for her estranged trans niece

With tremendous aplomb, Mzia Arabuli plays Lia, the second essential Georgian screen heroine of 2024

Fri Jul 19 2024 - 05:00
Thelma: 94-year-old June Squibb has a ball with her first action heroine. She’s an early Oscar favourite

Thelma: 94-year-old June Squibb has a ball with her first action heroine. She’s an early Oscar favourite

Crowdpleaser about nonagenarian who sets out to recover money after being scammed is never patronising

Wed Jul 17 2024 - 05:00
‘Age is being put in its place’: Actor June Squibb on becoming an action hero at 94

‘Age is being put in its place’: Actor June Squibb on becoming an action hero at 94

The star of Thelma, about a scammed woman who embarks on a revenge mission, on an ageing world, landing her first lead role and working with Shaft

Tue Jul 16 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Eerie serial killer thriller Longlegs, plus Auschwitz documentary The Commandant’s Shadow, spooky Korean drama Sleep, and low star wattage in romcom Fly Me to the Moon

Sun Jul 14 2024 - 05:00
Fly Me to the Moon review: Lunar romcom starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum fails to achieve lift-off

Fly Me to the Moon review: Lunar romcom starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum fails to achieve lift-off

Underpowered screwball take on Apollo moon landing was intended for streaming – and it shows

Fri Jul 12 2024 - 05:15
The Commandant’s Shadow review: The fascinating real-life story behind The Zone of Interest

The Commandant’s Shadow review: The fascinating real-life story behind The Zone of Interest

There is no sense of catharsis in documentary featuring son of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss

Fri Jul 12 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Gripping Irish drama The Sparrow, plus 1980s retread Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, 1980s-set slasher MaXXXine, and strange Japanese anime Blue Lock the Movie: Episode Nagi

Sun Jul 07 2024 - 05:00
Ti West on MaXXXine: ‘Horror was one step above porn for a very long time’

Ti West on MaXXXine: ‘Horror was one step above porn for a very long time’

The third part of the American film-maker’s X trilogy catches up with Mia Goth’s protagonist in 1980s New York

Sat Jul 06 2024 - 05:15
The Sparrow review: An exquisitely crafted, expertly performed Irish murder ballad

The Sparrow review: An exquisitely crafted, expertly performed Irish murder ballad

Newcomer Ollie West impresses in Michael Kinirons’s debut feature

Fri Jul 05 2024 - 05:00
MaXXXine review: third instalment in stylish slasher trilogy with Mia Goth is lacking in sleaze

MaXXXine review: third instalment in stylish slasher trilogy with Mia Goth is lacking in sleaze

The third instalment in the slasher trilogy is stylish, but lacking in substance and sleaze

Fri Jul 05 2024 - 05:00
Paul B Preciado has crossed continents and genders. With Orlando he redefines documentary film

Paul B Preciado has crossed continents and genders. With Orlando he redefines documentary film

In his hybrid feature, the director invites nonbinary and trans people to audition for and play Virginia Woolf’s protagonist, with astonishingly rich results

Wed Jul 03 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

A Quiet Place: Day One, A Greyhound of a Girl, Kinds of Kindness, Eternal You

Sun Jun 30 2024 - 05:00
Lily Gladstone: ‘We are done with being told our stories won’t resonate. That’s been proven wrong so often’

Lily Gladstone: ‘We are done with being told our stories won’t resonate. That’s been proven wrong so often’

The Native American Oscar nominee broke new ground in Killers of the Flower Moon. Her new film, Fancy Dance, picks up the same issues 100 years later

Sat Jun 29 2024 - 05:30
Eternal You: Documentary portrait about the rush to digitally resurrect dead loved ones is scarier than any AI fiction

Eternal You: Documentary portrait about the rush to digitally resurrect dead loved ones is scarier than any AI fiction

An unexpectedly profound reckoning with our increasingly queasy relationship with the virtual world

Fri Jun 28 2024 - 05:08
A Greyhound of a Girl: Terrific Irish ensemble enlivens charming tale that makes weighty themes feel feather-light

A Greyhound of a Girl: Terrific Irish ensemble enlivens charming tale that makes weighty themes feel feather-light

Animation of Roddy Doyle’s children’s book of same name leans into writer’s reliable ear for the vernacular

Thu Jun 27 2024 - 05:00
Kevin Bacon: ‘A lot of actors say they’re really shy. That’s bullsh*t. You want people to look at you’

Kevin Bacon: ‘A lot of actors say they’re really shy. That’s bullsh*t. You want people to look at you’

It’s 40 years since the actor starred in Footloose. In Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, he joins Eddie Murphy in a franchise that also dates back to 1984

Sun Jun 23 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

The Bikeriders, The Exorcism, Green Border, Something in the Water

Sun Jun 23 2024 - 05:00
Green Border review: muscular, urgent dramatisation of the refugee crisis

Green Border review: muscular, urgent dramatisation of the refugee crisis

Agnieszka Holland’s powerful depiction of border-crossing has angered Polish authorities and refugee agencies in equal measure

Thu Jun 20 2024 - 05:00
The Exorcism: Russell Crowe has seldom been better than in this superior supernatural horror

The Exorcism: Russell Crowe has seldom been better than in this superior supernatural horror

Joshua John Miller’s imaginative film makes makes the inferior Exorcist: Believer reboot feel genuinely cursed

Wed Jun 19 2024 - 05:10
Jeff Nichols on his film The Bikeriders: ‘For me it’s a combination of two things – Danny Lyon’s book and GoodFellas’

Jeff Nichols on his film The Bikeriders: ‘For me it’s a combination of two things – Danny Lyon’s book and GoodFellas’

Director on getting out of his southern US comfort zone and his plans to adapt Cormac McCarthy’s final two novels

Wed Jun 19 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

The onset of puberty sends Riley around the bend in excellent sequel Inside Out 2, plus offbeat Bigfoot dramedy Sasquatch Sunset, Ama Gloria from France and Hounds from Morocco

Sun Jun 16 2024 - 05:00
Ama Gloria: A six-year-old clings to her departing nanny in Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq’s affecting drama

Ama Gloria: A six-year-old clings to her departing nanny in Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq’s affecting drama

Louise Mauroy-Panzani’s uncanny performance keeps us fixated on the child’s psychodrama

Fri Jun 14 2024 - 05:00
Sasquatch Sunset: Controversial Bigfoot movie is rewardingly novel, touchingly human and agreeably nutty

Sasquatch Sunset: Controversial Bigfoot movie is rewardingly novel, touchingly human and agreeably nutty

The Zellner brothers inject genuine pathos to elevate what could otherwise have ended up as an extended skit

Thu Jun 13 2024 - 05:00
Sasquatch Sunset: ‘We’ve talked to a lot of Bigfoot experts ... it’s fascinating how it feeds the mythology’

Sasquatch Sunset: ‘We’ve talked to a lot of Bigfoot experts ... it’s fascinating how it feeds the mythology’

In Zellner brothers’ Bigfoot film, Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg lead cast that grunts, screams, masturbates and defecates

Tue Jun 11 2024 - 05:00
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