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  • film still of a woman in the woods with a crossbow

    Never Let Go review – Halle Berry takes hold of uneven woodland horror

    The Oscar winner is a sturdy presence in an intriguing post-apocalyptic puzzle that can’t quite find all of the pieces
  • Agent J or Agent No Way? … Will Smith and David Schwimmer

    Would starring in Men in Black really have made David Schwimmer a movie star?

    Stuart Heritage
  • Sophia Loren in Legend of the Lost (1957)

    Happy 90th birthday Sophia Loren! Her greatest films – ranked

  • Courting attention … Arieh Worthalter as Pierre Goldman.

    The Goldman Case review – gripping French courtroom drama with a chaotic energy

  • Willa Fitzgerald in Strange Darling.

    Strange Darling review – grisly but audacious serial-killer horror outside the comfort zone

  • A character with autonomy … Preeti Panigrahi as Mira in Girls Will Be Girls.

    Girls Will Be Girls review – sexual awakening in Indian boarding school is poised and plausible

Reviews

  • a statue of Mary and Baby Jesus looks over St Joseph's Mission, a former Indian residential school near Williams Lake, British Columbia.

    Sugarcane review – trauma and truth unearthed in Indigenous children’s schools scandal

  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Greedy People.

    Greedy People review – blood and chaos overlay bizarrely Coenesque crime caper

  • The classical model … Public Enemy.

    Public Enemy review – anatomy of Greece’s economic crisis framed as epic tragedy

  • Half man, half machine … Neil Harbisson.

    Cyborg: A Documentary review – man who ‘hears’ colours is leading transhuman age

  • The Old Man and the Land review – sibling squabbles as family unravels like an old jumper

  • Clawfoot review – Hollywood nepo babies do fine in horror-comedy bathed in gore

  • Notes from Sheepland review – lovely portrait of artist-farmer who only has eyes for sheep

  • 200% Wolf review – moon spirit baby turns kiddie werewolf sequel into frenetic howler

  • The Island review – Matt Dillon’s moody clarinetting sums up exotic Greek idyll thriller

  • Last Straw review – waitress holes up in diner in twisty low-budget siege horror

  • Astrakan 79 review – memories of a boyhood adventure in chilly communist Russia

  • Anyox review – ghostly afterlife of a devastated mining town in ecological disaster

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News

  • A man in a suit and tie points a gun

    Lionsgate partners with AI firm to train generative model on film and TV library

  • RBC Hosted "The Life of Chuck" Premiere Party At RBC House, Toronto International Film Festival 2024<br>TORONTO, ONTARIO - SEPTEMBER 06: (L-R) Tom Hiddleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor attend "The Life of Chuck" premiere party at RBC House during the Toronto International Film Festival on September 06, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Ryan Emberley/Getty Images for RBC)

    Stephen King adaptation The Life of Chuck wins Toronto film festival award

  • A parent and a child sit next to each other and show each other their phone screens

    Documentary producers release new ethical AI guidelines for film-makers

  • Hugh Grant, Ralph Fiennes, Daniel Craig

    The British are coming, again! Ralph Fiennes, Daniel Craig and Hugh Grant set for Oscars face-off

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What to watch

  • A composite image of a priest, an opera singer, a woman in a club, a man and woman in an office

    From The Brutalist to Conclave: what is the state of this year’s Oscar race?

  • Keanu Reeves in A Scanner Darkly, 2006

    Keanu Reeves at 60: from surfer dude to action hero, his 20 best films – ranked!

    Good cop, bad cop, Shakespearean villain – he’s done the lot. To mark the milestone birthday of one of the nicest men in Hollywood, we run down his finest works
  • close up of woman's face

    From Hard Truths to Nightbitch: 10 films to look out for at the Toronto film festival

    Much-anticipated titles from Mike Leigh and Ron Howard lead lineup with stars such as Amy Adams and Hugh Grant
  • A film still of a blonde man in a dimly lit room looking at the camera

    Milk & Serial: the vicious, viral $800-budget horror that’s free to watch

  • From left to right film stills of All We Imagine As Light, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Gladiator II

    The return of Beetlejuice, Gladiator, Paddington and the Joker – the best films of autumn 2024

  • A woman (Julie Andrews) smiles as she looks at a bird in her hand

    Mary Poppins at 60: a dazzling Disney masterpiece that hasn’t lost its shine

  • Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas in Maria.

    Maria Callas, Lady Gaga and divas of a different stripe: Peter Bradshaw’s picks of the Venice film festival

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Opinion

  • Don Johnson as Chief Sandy Burnne, left, and Aaron Pierre as Terry Richmond in a scene from Rebel Ridge.

    No kill zone: how revenge rampage Rebel Ridge is reinventing the action movie

    Joel Snape
  • James Earl Jones, actor, who is appearing in an all black version of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof at Novello Theatre. Commissioned for Arts

    James Earl Jones was movie royalty, a magisterial star who inspired both love and respect

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Closing Ceremony - 81st Venice Film Festival<br>epa11592227 Spanish director and screenwriter Pedro Almodovar holds the Golden Lion award for his movie 'The Room Next Door' during the closing ceremony of the 81st annual Venice International Film Festival, in Venice, Italy, 07 September 2024. EPA/ETTORE FERRARI

    Venice 2024: Almodóvar’s first major festival win is richly deserved – and epically overdue

    Xan Brooks
  • Resplendent … Julianne Moore, Pedro Almodóvar and Tilda Swinton at the Venice film festival premiere of The Room Next Door

    Are standing ovations at film festivals getting out of hand?

  • Blink Twice and the problem with #MeToo thrillers

    Adrian Horton

  • Bennifer is over – again. But why does Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s divorce feel so sad?

    Sian Cain

  • Mesmeric and beautiful, Alain Delon was one of cinema’s most mysterious stars

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Gena Rowlands: the fiercest, most incandescent star of US indie cinema

  • Dìdi is a rare thing: a genuinely great film about the internet

    Adrian Horton

  • ‘Hold on to your seats’: how much will AI affect the art of film-making?

  • Deadpool’s obnoxious gay panic humour is a tiresome schoolyard taunt

    Guy Lodge

  • Difficult, fearsome, aggressive: the Faye Dunaway documentary is unusually frank

    Pamela Hutchinson
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Interviews

  • Giancarlo Esposito.

    ‘I was really desperate’: Giancarlo Esposito on Gus Fring, Sesame Street – and how he nearly hired a hitman

  • Scenes from the 1984 nuclear attack drama Threads

    ‘The most horrific, sobering thing I’ve ever seen’: BBC nuclear apocalypse film Threads 40 years on

    Ahead of a timely re-airing of Mick Jackson’s famously bleak docudrama, its director recalls why he unleashed a mushroom cloud on Sheffield in 1984
  • Mahin (Lili Farhadpour) and Faramarz (Esmail Mehrabi) in My Favourite Cake.

    ‘The main issue was always the hijab’: the Iranian directors arrested for their gentle septuagenarian comedy

    Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, makers of My Favourite Cake, received an ovation at the Berlin film festival while under house arrest in Tehran. They speak about the struggle of creating art under a dictatorship
  • Amrit Kaur and Kya Mosey in The Queen of My Dreams.

    Fawzia Mirza and Amrit Kaur on The Queen of My Dreams: ‘People want to hear more queer Muslim stories’

  • Eddie Marsan shot for OM

    Sunday with Eddie Marsan: ‘My potatoes are legendary’

  • Pedro Almodóvar

    Pedro Almodóvar: ‘Life needs fiction to make it bearable’

  • BTS for the film In Camera. Naqqash Khalid

    In Camera writer-director Naqqash Khalid: ‘The film industry is a circus’

Regulars

  • A female photographer holding a camera crouches behind sandbags during world war two.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Lee review – Kate Winslet is remarkable as model turned war photographer Lee Miller

  • Will Smith in I Am Legend, WALL·E. and Anya Taylor-Joy in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and the best post-apocalyptic films

  • Spoiler alert … Ian McKellan as Gandalf in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

    Week in geek
    Will The Hunt for Gollum really be two movies? That’s got to be a stretch

  • A few of Martin Scorsese’s favourite British films (clockwise from top left): Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde; To the Public Danger; The Legend of Hell House; and ‘dark gem’ Went the Day Well?

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… Martin Scorsese’s love of British cinema

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You may have missed

  • Not so much eating biscuits in the small hours with the laptop, then … Ian McKellen as Jimmy Erskine in The Critic.

    ‘I filed my copy from Waterloo station loos’: the Guardian’s theatre critics assess The Critic

  • ‘He’s a monster’ … Dylan Baker, right, and Justin Elvin in the 1998 film.

    ‘It would not get made today’: Todd Solondz on his shocking paedophile film Happiness

    ‘It’s about a guy who has this horrible private obsession but doesn’t accept he’s hurting anyone. He feels he’s a good father, a good family man, and that this other life is his alone. Sadly, I don’t think that’s rare’
  • Pierre Goldman arrives at court flanked by gendarmes in 1976.

    Tried for double murder and adored by the French left: the violent life and crimes of Pierre Goldman

    He was a street-fighting revolutionary with a taste for flash cars and crisp shirts – a moralising bank-robber who was eventually gunned down in the streets of Paris. As a film recreates this astonishing figure’s notorious trial, we speak to his old acquaintances
  • a Lee Miller photograph taken in Downshire Hill, London, in 1941.

    ‘Now I owned a private war’: Lee Miller and the female journalists who broke battlefield rules

  • This image released by Paramount Pictures shows a scene from "Better Man." (Paramount Pictures via AP)

    Better Man review – Robbie Williams monkey biopic is a bananas gamble that pays off

  • This image released by Focus Features shows Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence in a scene from "Conclave." (Focus Features via AP)

    Conclave review – Ralph Fiennes takes charge of tense papal election thriller

  • FILE: Actor James Earl Jones Dies At 93<br>FILE - SEPTEMBER 09: Actor James Earl Jones has died at 93 years old. The EGOT winner is known for such classic films as "Star Wars," "Field of Dreams," "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" and "The Lion King." NEW YORK - APRIL 7: (U.S. TABS AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER OUT) Actor James Earl Jones attends the opening night of "On Golden Pond" after party at Blue Fin April 7, 2005 in New York City. (Photo by Paul Hawthorne/Getty Images)

    ‘James Earl Jones boomed this massive laugh - then hugged me’: Lenny Henry and Don Warrington remember their hero

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Film genres

  • Joel Snape

    Action
    No kill zone: how revenge rampage Rebel Ridge is reinventing the action movie

    Joel Snape
  • L-r, Brian Tyree Henry (D-16), Keegan-Michael Key (B-127), Scarlett Johansson (Elita-1) and Chris Hemsworth (Orion Pax) star in PARAMOUNT ANIMATION and HASBRO Present In Association with NEW REPUBLIC PICTURES A di BONAVENTURA PICTURES Production A TOM DESANTO / DON MURPHY Production A BAY FILMS Production “TRANSFORMERS ONE”

    Animation
    Transformers One review – animated origin tale is fun fan service

  • Courting attention … Arieh Worthalter as Pierre Goldman.

    Crime
    The Goldman Case review – gripping French courtroom drama with a chaotic energy

  • Courting attention … Arieh Worthalter as Pierre Goldman.

    Drama
    The Goldman Case review – gripping French courtroom drama with a chaotic energy

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