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Film

  • Close-up of woman and daughter

    Janet Planet review – mother-daughter relationship unfolds in dreamy summer haze

    Julianne Nicholson stars in playwright Annie Baker’s languidy charming and tasteful debut feature about a girl’s increasingly fraught holiday at home
  • man in a red and demin jacket and glasses

    Is Tyler Perry the most frustrating man in Hollywood?

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Reviews

  • Looks like they’ve made it … Alex James and Damon Albarn in Blur: To the End.

    Blur: To the End review – sentimental journey for four likely lads on their way to Wembley

  • A still from Shayda, a 2023 film directed by Noora Niasari

    Shayda review – an exciting new voice in Australian cinema has arrived

  • Black man sitting at table looks down as Black woman looks at him

    Divorce in the Black review – Tyler Perry’s dull drama is his worst to date

  • Night fever … Lee Sun-kyun and Jung Yu-mi in Sleep.

    Sleep review – marriage unravels in gleeful Korean somnambulist psycho-chiller

  • Despicable Me 4 review – Gru goes into witness protection to keep Minion magic alive

  • Hundreds of Beavers review – Gold Rush-style spoof silent comedy fires gags at warp speed

  • The Commandant’s Shadow review – family of Auschwitz commander bring healing to death-camp survivor

  • Eno review – stimulating and cerebral look at the high priest of art-tech experimentalism

  • Longlegs review – Nicolas Cage is a miscast killer in misfiring hokum

  • In a Violent Nature review – horror unplugged is quietly gruesome

  • Schlitter: Evil in the Woods review – tightly crafted horror turned DIY torture tutorial

  • Agent of Happiness review – Bhutan surveyors attempt to analyse joy

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News

  • On the set of Craig's Wife (1936), left to right: film editor Viola Lawrence, star Rosalind Russell, screenwriter McCall and director Dorothy Arzner.

    Credit at last for female screenwriter airbrushed from Hollywood history

  • BFFs … Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman at the UK Press Conference for Deadpool & Wolverine.

    ‘His skincare regime alone would bankrupt you’: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman bring banter and bromance to London

  • Riz Ahmed in Dammi

    ‘Identity is more unstable than ever’: Riz Ahmed on new short film Dammi

  • 1980, THE SHINING<br>SHELLEY DUVALL Character(s): Wendy Torrance Film 'THE SHINING' (1980) Directed By STANLEY KUBRICK 23 May 1980 SBB4889 Allstar/WARNER BROS. **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of WARNER BROS. 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 WARNER BROS. is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Shelley Duvall, star of The Shining and Annie Hall, dies aged 75

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What to watch

  • 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

    Born on 4 July, one of the last true stars of Hollywood’s golden age celebrates her centenary next week. We look back at the landmark roles of a 75-year career
  • Civil War, Furiosa, The Fall Guy

    ‘Sexy, sweaty and surprising – with a really big ending’: readers’ best films of 2024 so far

    From jazzy anime to an unfilmable sci-fi epic, a poignant film without dialogue and the silliest LGBTQ+ movie you’ll ever see
  • CHINATOWN<br>FAYE DUNAWAY &amp; JACK NICHOLSON ARTWORK Film 'CHINATOWN' (1974) Directed By ROMAN POLANSKI 20 June 1974 SSS73474 Allstar Collection/PARAMOUNT **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. For Editorial Use Only.

    Chinatown at 50: has there been a greater screenplay since?

  • Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic, Simba in The Lion King and Nancy Allen in Blow Out.

    ‘It always destroys me’: our writers on their saddest movie deaths

  • Terry Jones as Mr Creosote in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.

    Fantasia to Flesh and Fantasy, the Coens to Cavalcanti: anthology films – ranked!

  • Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse in Back to Black and Dev Patel in Monkey Man.

    The best films of 2024 in the UK so far

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Opinion

  • Unoriginal sins: why does Russell Crowe keep making exorcism movies?

    Stuart Heritage

  • Anouk Aimée: an entrancing 60s movie icon with an air of glamorous unknowability

    Peter Bradshaw

  • After the Winnie-the-Pooh slasher, now there’s a Mickey Mouse horror movie. This is not necessarily a bad thing

    Stuart Heritage

  • Netflix released Takashi Miike’s new film without telling anyone. Please stop doing this!

    Stuart Heritage

  • Alien? Mission: Impossible? Toy Story? What is the greatest movie franchise ever?

  • Super Size Me was a terrific cheeky stunt – small wonder Morgan Spurlock never matched it

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Sorry Seth Rogen, but if cinemas are the new museums, the movies really are in trouble

    Stuart Heritage

  • Roger Corman: cinema's pulp genius whose talent to shock was rocket fuel

    Peter Bradshaw
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Interviews

  • Danny Dyer wears a polo shirt by Mr P (mrporter.com).

    ‘It’s been a mad old journey’: Danny Dyer on family, royalty and his tough guy image

  • Jane Seymour sitting in a plush yellow gold cocoon chair

    Jane Seymour: ‘I’ve remained friends with my third and fourth husbands’

    The actor, 73, on her mother’s concentration camp experience, school dinners, Me Too, and her four ex-husbands
  • DO NOT USE BEFORE JULY 13 2024. Emma Corrin shot by Christina Ebenezer in London, June 2024, for Guardian Saturday magazine. Styling: Ali & Aniko Hair: Daniel Martin Make up: Gina Kane Set Design: George Lewin Dress by Molly Goddard, earrings and ring by Cartier

    ‘I’m starting to doubt everything’: Emma Corrin on Diana, being a Marvel villain, and an existential crisis

    The actor is on the brink of megastardom thanks to a new role as a bald baddie, starring alongside Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds – so why all the self-doubt?
  • Director Levan Akin.

    ‘I saw In Bed with Madonna 50 times. I’d never seen guys kissing before’: Levan Akin on formative films, trans rights and usurping his heroes

  • (l-r) Dorottya Zurbó, Amber Kumar Gurung, Guna Raj Kuikel, and Arun Bhattarai.

    ‘Are you rich in goats?’: chronicling the extraordinary work of Bhutan’s ‘happiness surveyors’

  • Alicia Witt, 2024

    ‘The catharsis was profound, but I’ll never watch it’: Alicia Witt on facing her demons on film

  • The XXX factor … Mia Goth and Ti West.

    ‘If my babysitter’s evil, I’m screwed!’: horror director Ti West on outraging the moral majority

Regulars

  • Maika Monroe in profile as a bedraggled looking Agent Lee Harker in Longlegs, screaming in a car in a dull, grey forest setting

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Longlegs review – Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage grip in brooding horror thriller

  • L-r: Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink, Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in Ghost and Rob Lowe in Behind the Candelabra.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best of the Brat Packers

  • Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine

    Week in geek
    Deadpool & Wolverine sneak preview hints at a snarky satire on Marvel’s multiverse

    Ben Child
  • From left: Willem Dafoe in Kathryn Bigelow’s debut feature, The Loveless (1981); her Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker (2008); Jessica Chastain in political thriller Zero Dark Thirty (2012).

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… Kathryn Bigelow, a stylish ruffler of feathers

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You may have missed

  • (l-r) Dorottya Zurbó, Amber Kumar Gurung, Guna Raj Kuikel, and Arun Bhattarai.

    ‘Are you rich in goats?’: chronicling the extraordinary work of Bhutan’s ‘happiness surveyors’

  • woman with tattoos on her hands covers her face with her hands

    ‘How do we stop this?’ Inuit woman unpacks trauma of being twice colonized

    New documentary Twice Colonized follows human rights lawyer Aaju Peter as she looks back at how both she and her homeland were colonized by Europe
  • man dressed in costume with a crown photographed in blue-ish light

    ‘Opened my whole world up’: inside Oscar-tipped prison theater drama Sing Sing

    An acclaimed movie spotlights a program offering a world of creativity to those living in a New York maximum security prison
  • white woman wearing white suit gestures at white woman wearing patterned shirt as a white man wearing a black suit and bowtie looks on

    Rude awakening: when movies change their original NSFW titles

  • A mystical creature with horns looks menacingly at Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

    Will The Rock’s Red One be the worst Christmas movie ever?

  • Keira Knightley and Donald Sutherland in Pride and Prejudice (2005).

    ‘I can see him now. I will see him forever’: Donald Sutherland remembered by Keira Knightley, Elliott Gould, Ralph Fiennes and more

  • Tim Roth in Made in Britain.

    ‘Quite a scrap’: David Leland on the fight that Tim Roth started to get cast in Made in Britain

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Film genres

  • Sasha Lane as Lily and Glen Powell as Tyler in Twisters.

    Action
    Twisters review – Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones find whirlwind romance in weather-hacking 90s sequel

  • Honey badger plays with baby Gru Jr in Despicable Me 4.

    Animation
    Despicable Me 4 review – Baby Gru Jr enlivens another brush with villainy

  • On the road … Richard Roundtree and June Squibb in Thelma.

    Crime
    Thelma review – June Squibb is marvellous in sweet mobility scooter revenge caper

  • Close-up of woman and daughter

    Drama
    Janet Planet review – mother-daughter relationship unfolds in dreamy summer haze

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