Joshua Oppenheimer on shooting his postapocalyptic film The End in Ireland: ‘How would you tell your story to your grandchildren?’
The End, starring Bronagh Gallagher, was shot in Wicklow and seems about as far as you can get from the director’s disturbing documentaries
The Movie Quiz: How many Shakespeare adaptations has Kenneth Branagh directed?
Plus: Who are the stars of Disney’s live-action update of Snow White?
Flow review: Children will rewatch this piece of outsider art until the pixels wear out
This tiny Latvian film hammered the giant studios in the race for animated feature at the Oscars
Brief History of a Family review: Startlingly eerie debut finds new angles to a familiar genre
In this excellent Chinese drama, a mildly troubled son to a well-off couple brings the bright child of an abusive father home
Ludivine Sagnier: ‘This sexy bombshell had nothing to do with who I was. I felt confused’
Hollywood came calling after she starred in Swimming Pool but the actor had other ideas
Four new films to see this week: Black Bag, Sister Midnight, Opus, The Electric State
Steven Sodergergh’s starry espionage caper is sleek and stylish. Plus an inventive Indian caper, an oddball popstar horror, and a blandly expensive sci-fi bust on Netflix
Van Morrison’s Madame George remains a work of great poignancy
What did the old grump mean in Madame George about pitching pennies into the Boyne? We’re one step closer to reconnecting with his great artwork
The Movie Quiz: For what did Anora’s Sean Baker not win a gong at the Oscars?
Plus: Spot the film without a credit for Bono
Sister Midnight review: An endlessly inventive marriage of perfectly pitched comedy and deranged ambience
Radhika Apte plays an irrepressible oddball driven to the edge of sanity (and maybe beyond)
Black Bag review: Soderbergh’s spy flick starring Blanchett and Fassbender beats streaming rivals hands down
Those going in expectation of action will meet disappointment, while the rest of us will be clamouring for a sequel
The Russo brothers: ‘We made a movie for nothing and got discovered by a giant film-maker’
Joe and Anthony Russo on The Electric State, their new Netflix film; and their return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe
What follows the best-picture Oscar? Fame, fortune and perhaps even a Baggot Street nightclub
The Academy Award can help move a director to the top of the heap – or make everyone involved lose the run of themselves and deliver a catastrophic flop
The Movie Quiz: Where does Scarlett O’Hara live?
The upcoming Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning may be the last in the series. How many will that make?
Mickey 17 review: Bong Joon Ho’s fitful sci-fi satire is a rickety follow-up to the Oscar-winning Parasite
Robert Pattinson and the rest of the strong cast manage to make something fleetingly diverting of this jumbled concoction
On Falling review: This superb debut about a lonely warehouse picker is an astonishing fable of hidden miseries
Director Laura Carreira’s research into online retail fed into this deeply sinister but plausible world with whispers of sci-fi dystopia