Schmeichel review: Eric Cantona, Alex Ferguson and Gary Neville line out. But where’s Roy Keane?
Owen Davies’s engaging documentary portrait on the retired Danish footballer lacks a Keane edge
‘Eunice had a unique inner strength. It’s like a volcano that never spills’: Walter Salles on the Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here
The film, based on the real story of the forced disappearance of a dissident in 1970s Brazil, is a box-office sensation in its native Brazil despite right-wing calls for a boycott
Four new films to see this week
Latest Bridget Jones is both properly funny and unexpectedly poignant. Plus: drama of rootless Palestinians in Greece, eccentric adults-only Aussie animation, and Fugazi crowd-sourced concert doc
Memoir of a Snail review: A lovely, heartfelt creation from an Oscar-winning animator
Adam Elliot has created a dark, antipodean fable of divided siblings
We Are Fugazi from Washington, DC review: Fan-sourced film captures legendary US punks in all their glory
Even plucked from the archives, these are the best gigs you’ll see in 2025
To a Land Unknown director Mahdi Fleifel: ‘Getting a film made is a miracle. Getting a Palestinian film made is more than that’
Refugee-themed thriller offers a timely insight into the complex consequences of statelessness
Four new films to see this week
Engrossing drama about Munich Olympics hostage crisis. Plus long but twist Iranian thriller, Barry Keoghan in ersatz Irish western, and acceptable female boxing biopic
The Fire Inside review: The Olympic champion Claressa ‘T-Rex’ Shields deserves an Oscar-worthy biopic. This isn’t quite that
This Barry Jenkins-scripted sports drama has enough quality to please genre and sports enthusiasts but feels like an undercard fixture
September 5 review: Tightly assembled thriller revisits the Munich Olympics hostage crisis
The lack of geopolitical context is questionable, but the film-making is sound
A flogging and eight years in prison: The risks Mohammad Rasoulof ran to make the Oscar-nominated Seed of the Sacred Fig
The nail-biting thriller is one of the most-lauded films of the past year - and making it involved secret shoots as well as interrogation by Iranian authorities
Four new films to see this week
Mike Leigh’s latest drama is ‘desperately moving’. Plus evocative doc on Edna O’Brien, a clever spin on The Stepford Wives, and a lovely, low-key anime from Japan
Companion review: Sophie Thatcher is the scream queen to beat in this post-AI spin on The Stepford Wives
Docile, robot heroine becomes the victim in Drew Hancock’s playful horror comedy
The Colors Within review: The story of a socially awkward Catholic student and her friends
Naoko Yamada’s gentle animated drama has all of the yearning and discomfort of adolescence
Four new films to see this week
Astonishing epic The Brutalist practically groans with ambition. Plus lo-fi spooker Presence, heartfelt indie drama Parachute, and affectionate Naples portrait Posso Entrare?
This century’s The Godfather: How Brady Corbet made the staggering film The Brutalist
Aged 36, the auteur has already made three of the most remarkable films of the 21st century – including the one tipped to win this year’s best-picture Oscar