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Film

  • Ali Kalthami, director of Mandoob

    ‘I felt like the gates of something huge had opened’: Ali Kalthami on his subversive new Saudi thriller

    He has just made the highest-grossing Saudi film ever, about a delivery driver who muscles into illegal alcohol. But the edgy subject matter meant he had to fight to get it off the ground
  • Actor Johnny Depp portrays the character "Willy Wonka" in a scene from director Tim Burton's new film "Charlie and The Chocolate Factory" in this undated publicity photograph. The film opens in the United States July 15, 2005. NO SALES REUTERS/Peter Mountain/Warner Bros./Handout

    Walk on the weird side: Tim Burton’s movies – ranked!

  • Naomi Ackie stars as Frida and Channing Tatum in Blink Twice.

    Blink Twice review – Zoe Kravitz’s stylish yet scattered #MeToo thriller

  • Guillermo del Toro.

    ‘Something is in that room’: Guillermo del Toro disturbed by ‘ghosts’ in Scottish hotel

  • Reinventing the politics of hip-hop … Kneecap.

    Kneecap review – Irish-language hip-hop trio in fiercely riotous Belfast romp

  • MEGALOPOLIS 2024 de Francis Ford Coppola Adam Driver. Prod DB © American Zoetrope - Caesar Film<br>2X9X8NR MEGALOPOLIS 2024 de Francis Ford Coppola Adam Driver. Prod DB © American Zoetrope - Caesar Film film still

    Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis trailer withdrawn over fake quotes

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Reviews

  • Flickers of fear … Karen Martínez in Cadejo Blanco.

    Cadejo Blanco review – compelling performances in slow-burn drug gang thriller

  • The Mountain Within Me.

    The Mountain Within Me review – disabled heroes take on the Himalayas

  • Lorenza Mazzetti in Together With Lorenza Mazzetti.

    Together With Lorenza Mazzetti review – compelling final testament from overlooked director

  • Against the odds … The Home Game

    The Home Game review – sweet and heartwarming story of Iceland’s footballing underdogs

  • Widow Clicquot review – vine-whispering champagne-maker gets the biopic treatment

  • Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limits review – Czech Spider-Man climbs all the way to Olympics

  • Nothing But the Best review – raffish Alan Bates comedy is a time capsule of 60s London

  • Hell Hole review – creature feature is fracking fun

  • Hostile Dimensions review – goofy no-budget horror opens portal to a parallel world

  • Between the Temples review – Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane charm in quirky comedy

  • Noah’s Ark review – Old Testament’s got talent in biblical kids’ animation

  • Lore review – Brit-horror anthology tells its gruesome stories around the campfire

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News

  • Bill Skarsgård and FKA twigs in The Crow reboot. The film’s director, Rupert Sanders, has revealed he banned all firing guns from the set out of safety fears

    Guns banned from set of The Crow reboot after Brandon Lee’s death

  • woman with bun who is Jennifer Lopez and man with facial hair who is Ben Affleck

    Jennifer Lopez files for divorce from Ben Affleck after two years of marriage

  • entrance to walt disney world flanked by figures of minnie and mickey mouse

    Disney drops streaming waiver defense over woman’s allergy death at resort

  • Alain Delon with three dogs sitting next to a tree

    Alain Delon’s family refuse to put down dog actor wished to be buried with

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What to watch

  • Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun.

    Edinburgh film festival 2024: 12 of the best movies on show

  • 2007, ENCHANTED<br>AMY ADAMS Character(s): Giselle Film 'ENCHANTED' (2007) Directed By KEVIN LIMA 21 November 2007 SSP60647 Allstar/DISNEY **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of DISNEY 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 DISNEY is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Aliens, artists and Abscam: Amy Adams’ 20 best performances – ranked!

    The six times Oscar-nominated actor, who turns 50 this month, stars in comedy horror Nightbitch releasing in December. We look back at some of her best roles
  • 1985, COMMANDO<br>ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Character(s): John Matrix Film 'COMMANDO' (1985) Directed By MARK L. LESTER 04 October 1985 SSZ101431 Allstar/20THCENTURY FOX **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of 20THCENTURY FOX 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 20THCENTURY FOX is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Brawn, bazookas and killer bots: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s finest films – ranked!

    In anticipation of his 77th birthday, we appraise the monolithically musclebound Austrian’s action-packed oeuvre
  • Composite of screen shots from summer films

    From steamy summertime romances to spring-break chaos: the 20 best films about holidays

  • three side by side film stills

    From Twister to Titanic: writers on their favourite disaster movies

  • woman wearing white shirt and wings kisses man in knight's armor

    Shakespeare goes pop: the best of the Bard’s work updated on screen

  • 1959, NORTH BY NORTHWEST<br>EVA MARIE SAINT &amp; CARY GRANT Character(s): Eve Kendall &amp; Film 'NORTH BY NORTHWEST' (1959) Directed By ALFRED HITCHCOCK 17 July 1959 CT2771 Allstar/MGM (USA 1959) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of MGM 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 MGM is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Happy 100th birthday, Eva Marie Saint! Her best films – ranked

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Opinion

  • Jennifer Lopez,Ben Affleck<br>Jennifer Lopez, right, and Ben Affleck kiss upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'The Last Duel' during the 78th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

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

    Sian Cain
  • PURPLE NOON (aka Plein Soleil) 1959 Paris Film/Paritalia production with Alain Delon<br>E7X3BK PURPLE NOON (aka Plein Soleil) 1959 Paris Film/Paritalia production with Alain Delon

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

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Superbly intelligent … Gena Rowlands in Opening Night.

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

  • This image released by Focus Features shows Izaac Wang in a scene from "DÌDI." (Focus Features via AP)

    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

  • Post your questions for Malcolm McDowell

  • Is Tyler Perry the most frustrating man in Hollywood?

  • Shelley Duvall was a sublime and subversive screen presence

    Peter Bradshaw

  • ‘I don’t think I have that in me’: what was Lena Dunham’s abandoned Polly Pocket movie actually going to involve?

    Stuart Heritage

  • We’re all feeling sequel fatigue – but Hollywood’s giving us Shrek 5

    Sian Cain
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Interviews

  • The Knife, Nnamdi Asomugha’s directorial debut, premiered at the 2024 Tribeca film festival.

    ‘I stumbled into this’: Nnamdi Asomugha on swapping the NFL for Hollywood

  • A man wearing a patterned shirt smiles and folds his hands together at an event

    James Cameron: ‘It’s harder to write sci-fi because we’re living in a sci-fi world’

    The blockbuster director talks his new docuseries, ideas for a potential new Terminator film and responds to Roland Emmerich’s claim that he’s ‘overbearing’
  • Rakie Ayola

    Actor Rakie Ayola: ‘Amazing things have happened this side of 40’

    The star of stage and screen on playing Persephone in Netflix’s bold take on Greek mythology, going viral and being uncool about awards
  • ‘I’m deeply neurotic and think it’s going to end tomorrow’: Morfydd Clark in dress by Erdem.

    ‘I seem to have this uncanny vibe about me’: actor Morfydd Clark on her eerie roles

  • Rory Kinnear.

    Rory Kinnear: ‘I congratulate everyone who is on the brink of baldness’

  • In this still from M: Son of the Century, the Fez El Duce, feature the fascist eagle, is put on the head of Benito Mussolini (plated by the actor Luca Marinelli).

    ‘I want the audience to be seduced’: Joe Wright on his Mussolini biopic

  • Elliot Page and Dominic Savage on the set of Close to You.

    ‘I get misgendered all the time’: Elliot Page on his return to acting on the big screen

Regulars

  • Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson in Alien: Romulus.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Alien: Romulus review – thrillingly gruesome new instalment gets a shot of young blood

  • 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

  • Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool & Wolverine.

    Week in geek
    Is this really the end of the line for Deadpool? Disney will never turn off the money tap

    Ben Child
  • a composite of four images from My Neighbour Totoro; Spirited Away; Mononoke and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… director Hayao Miyazaki, who speaks to the child in all of us

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You may have missed

  • Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson in Something’s Gotta Give.

    Lights, camera, comfy furnishings: why the ‘beige chic’ of Nancy Meyers is having a revival

  • Klitschko brothers

    ‘Then Zelenskiy called for him to go’: Kevin Macdonald on how his film about Kyiv’s ex-boxer mayor suddenly heated up

    The director was having trouble making his documentary about Vitali Klitschko and his brother Wladimir emotional and dramatic. But when the mayor was blamed for two bomb shelter deaths, everything changed
  • A still from Postman Pat: The Movie.

    ‘Sobbing in the aisles’: writers on their most memorable parent-kid film experiences

    Whether a terrifying Postman Pat, a mortifying sex scene, or a brush with button-phobia, our writers report on the family viewing they will never forget
  • Malcolm McDowell in Caligula, 1979.

    ‘There is an incredible hunger for it’: why classic films are making a comeback in cinemas

  • Grey Bees (2024) by Dmytro Moiseiev.

    Missile attacks and masterpieces: Mike Figgis on the bravery of a film festival under fire in Ukraine

  • A man surfing a barrel wave

    Crystal Voyager: the ultimate surfing film with a DIY spirit – and a Pink Floyd soundtrack

  • Deadpool inside a graphical egg design, on a red background

    Un oeuf is enough: have we had our fill of movie Easter eggs?

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Film genres

  • John Cena and Awkwafina in Jackpot! him aiming a pistol towards a muscly arm reaching in through a strong room door, awkwafina trying to push the door closed

    Action
    Jackpot! review – feeble Paul Feig action comedy maxes out on the mayhem

  • Noah's Ark

    Animation
    Noah’s Ark review – Old Testament’s got talent in biblical kids’ animation

  • Ali Kalthami, director of Mandoob

    Crime
    ‘I felt like the gates of something huge had opened’: Ali Kalthami on his subversive new Saudi thriller

  • A still from The Supremes at Earls All-You-Can-Eat

    Drama
    The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat review – female friendship saga falls flat

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