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  • two men in dark coats with red cardinal's caps

    Conclave: the fun, exciting Vatican thriller is perfect election escapism

    The Oscar-tipped papal saga, starring Ralph Fiennes, offers all the thrills of an election … without the grim reality
  • person with textured face and wearing brown hat smiles

    A Nightmare on Elm Street at 40: Wes Craven’s horror still causes sleepless nights

  • Two side-by-side images of women on red carpets

    Anne Hathaway and Zendaya are latest to join Christopher Nolan’s new film

  • Daenerys Targaryen admires her handiwork in the conclusion of Game of Thrones.

    A Game of Thrones movie may be coming – but do we really need it?

  • A group of women in a cinema in a scene from All We Imagine As Light

    ‘Women are made to feel as if they’re against each other’: the hit Indian film that challenges the patriarchy

  • Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves as Bodhi and Johnny Utah.

    Point Break review – Keanu and Swayze ride the waves with freaky, genre-hopping style

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Reviews

  • Barry Keoghan in Bird.

    Bird review – Andrea Arnold’s untamed Barry Keoghan tale is a curate’s egg

  • Paddington in Peru.

    Paddington in Peru review – you can take the bear out of South America, but think twice before taking him back

  • Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham in No Other Land.

    No Other Land review – an Israeli and Palestinian’s remarkable relationship

  • Danielle Deadwyler and John David Washington in The Piano Lesson.

    The Piano Lesson review – Washington family get stuck into August Wilson’s powerful play

  • Piece By Piece review – heartfelt biopic of Pharrell Williams’s life … in Lego

  • Holiday Twist review – could this be the worst Christmas movie ever?

  • Skincare review – Elizabeth Banks horror thriller is a thing of beauty

  • Red One review – bronto-head Dwayne Johnson weighs down Santa kidnap comedy

  • A Sudden Case of Christmas review – Danny DeVito plays it safe in mushy festive fare

  • I’m Charlie Walker review – stereotype-busting sort-of true story of a trucker and an oil spill

  • Meet Me Next Christmas review – Netflix kicks off season with passable romcom

  • Bookworm review – father-daughter heartwarmer casts a spell on failed magician Elijah Wood

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News

  • 1992, CANDYMAN<br>TONY TODD Character(s): The Candyman Film 'CANDYMAN' (1992) Directed By BERNARD ROSE 11 September 1992 CTU82703 Allstar/COLUMBIA (USA 1992) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of COLUMBIA and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To COLUMBIA is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Tony Todd, star of Candyman, dies aged 69

  • Film still: QUEER - Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey Credits Yannis Drakoulidis

    Turkish film festival scrapped over Daniel Craig gay drama censorship

  • two people battle with red and blue lightsabers

    New Star Wars trilogy in the works from Lucasfilm and X-Men writer

  • Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky

    Chris Hemsworth criticised over tourism ad promoting Abu Dhabi despite ‘notorious’ human rights violations

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What to watch

  • Judy Garland with the scarecrow, the tin man and the lion on the yellow brick road in the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz.

    ‘It’s the damnedest thing I’ve ever seen’: 10 film flops that became classics – ranked!

  • composite image of woman holding axe, person waering black hat screaming, person with long fingernails, and person with head against window blinds

    ‘Genuinely disturbing’: Guardian writers on their scariest horror villains

    For Halloween, critics pick their most nightmarish baddies, from Count Orlok in Nosferatu to Annie Wilkes in Misery
  • See ya, suckers … Nosferatu.

    Vampires, satanists and mad scientists: the evolution of horror in 10 revolutionary films

    Recent releases like Terrifier 3 show that the business of scaring cinema audiences is in rude health. But such horror flicks are standing on the blood-soaked shoulders of giants
  • film still of man in baggy coat with a gun

    The Terminator at 40: did James Cameron see into the future?

  • Clockwise from top left:

    Streaming: The Substance and the best body horror for Halloween

  • Paul Mescal stars as Lucius in Gladiator II.

    Are you not entertained? The XVIII best films about the Romans – ranked!

  • Angelina Jolie in Maria.

    Almodóvar in English, McQueen at war and Jolie on song: Peter Bradshaw’s picks of the London film festival

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Opinion

  • Screengrab: Andrew Garfield and Elmo Explain Grief. Sesame Workshop

    ‘I miss her a lot’: Andrew Garfield telling Elmo about grief was his best work yet

    Stuart Heritage
  • Horrible History and Horrible Histories comp

    Good news: there’s a new Horrible History DVD boxset out. Bad news: your children may not find it funny

    Stuart Heritage
  • Macho

    Want to understand Donald Trump? Then watch macho 80s action movies

    Tom Breihan
  • RUGRATS, Angelica, twins, Chuckie, Tommy, 1991-present<br>HDB74D RUGRATS, Angelica, twins, Chuckie, Tommy, 1991-present

    A live-action version of Rugrats with CGI babies sounds nightmarish … and kind of interesting

    Stuart Heritage

  • Daniel Day-Lewis’s return to acting is welcome news – but being directed by his son might prove tricky

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Whisky growl, granite jaw and unflappable charisma: Kris Kristofferson was perfect as a lover or a fighter

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Will Ferrell’s Netflix doc Will & Harper is flawed but vital viewing for cis people

    Veronica Esposito

  • Is The Substance brilliant feminist critique or a soulless mess?

    Adrian Horton

  • Maggie Smith was the grandest of grandes dames – and a true cinematic superstar

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Why reaction to Lionsgate’s AI film deal reminds me of the Campaign for Real Ale

    Peter Bradshaw

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

    Stuart Heritage

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

    Joel Snape
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Interviews

  • Liz Hurley courtesy Debenhams (C)2024 - DAN KENNEDY

    Elizabeth Hurley: ‘If I were Queen, I’d outlaw air fresheners in cars and ban prison for white-collar criminals’

  • Film still: Memories of a Burning Body - Substance Films. Directed by Antonella Sudasassi Furniss Publicity Image

    ‘I had two kids and didn’t know what an orgasm was’: the Costa Rican film giving grandmothers a voice

    Costa Rican director Antonella Sudasassi Furniss explains why her docu-fiction about the sexual lives of an earlier generation of women is also a story for today
  • David Stratton at his desk

    David Stratton on a life reviewing films – and the one TV show he thinks is ‘pretty damn good’

    The 85-year-old critic has finished his huge history of Australian cinema from 1990 to 2020 – which involved rewatching 650 films. So which beloved classic has he changed his mind about?
  • Anne-Marie Duff shot for OM

    ‘The flaws are the sexy bits’: Anne-Marie Duff on courage, curiosity and the rare gifts of ageing

  • Rufus Hound

    Sunday with Rufus Hound: ‘We’ll throw each other around for hours on end’

  • Keke Palmer

    ‘I am the industry!’: Keke Palmer on being Hollywood’s queen of content

  • Alan Bennett.

    Alan Bennett at 90: ‘What will people think? I don’t care any more’

Regulars

  • Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong walking along together.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    The Apprentice review – Jeremy Strong is the Trump card in measured biopic of the Donald

  • Kneecap, Patti Cake$, Straight Outta Compton and Bobi Wine Photographs by Curzon, Alamy, AP and AFP/Getty

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Kneecap and the best hip-hop movies

  • Daenerys Targaryen admires her handiwork in the conclusion of Game of Thrones.

    Week in geek
    A Game of Thrones movie may be coming – but do we really need it?

  • E.T; Schindler's List; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Jaws

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… composer John Williams, master of unforgettable blockbuster soundtracks

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You may have missed

  • Still from The Colour of Pomegranates (1969).

    Llama drama and fresco textures: unseen scenes from The Colour of Pomegranates – in pictures

  • ‘We did our stares when we went out to buy milkshakes’ … Danielle Keaton, centre front, in Village of the Damned, directed by John Carpenter.

    ‘After the shoot, we had a party in a slaughterhouse’: horror movies’ creepiest kids reveal all

    What’s it like to be the spine-chilling child in a scary film? In a Halloween special, we speak to the girl who played a demonic telepath in Village of the Damned – and the star of homicidal-virus shocker The Children
  • Creepy grinning robot gnome marches out of the shed while Wallace looks on with pride and Gromit with alarm

    Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl review – first they came for the trousers. Then they came for the robot gnome

    Feathers McGraw is back and implacably frightening as ever in Aardman’s latest, belated outing for everyone’s favourite cheese eating duo
  • 'The Hunters' photocall, The Four Seasons Hotel, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, USA - 19 Feb 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Magnus Sundholm/REX/Shutterstock (10562073d) Al Pacino 'The Hunters' photocall, The Four Seasons Hotel, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, USA - 19 Feb 2020

    ‘Say hello to my little pen’: 14 things we learned from Al Pacino’s memoir

  • Hugh Grant arriving at the high court in London on 27 April 2023 for the hearing about the Sun hacking his phone.

    No more Mr Nice Guy: how Hugh Grant transformed himself into an edgy national treasure

  • film still of man and a woman outside on a street

    The terrifying true story behind Woman of the Hour: ‘He was born with half a soul’

  • Christopher Reeve with his partner Gae and their children, Alexandra and Matthew, in 1984

    Christopher Reeve’s kids on love, loss and his life-changing accident: ‘He celebrated every single thing we did’

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Film genres

  • Chris Evans and Dwayne Johnson in Red One.

    Action
    Red One review – bronto-head Dwayne Johnson weighs down Santa kidnap comedy

  • Pharrell Williams in Piece by Piece

    Animation
    Piece By Piece review – heartfelt biopic of Pharrell Williams’s life … in Lego

  • Emilia Pérez.

    Crime
    Emilia Pérez to Dune: Part Two – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

  • Emilia Pérez.

    Drama
    Emilia Pérez to Dune: Part Two – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

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