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My Father’s Shadow review: An intimate family portrait and a deceptively sprawling portrait of Lagos
Akinola Davies jnr’s film quietly marries personal and national histories in Nigeria
Morfydd Clark: ‘Hamlet is about the suffering of many to make a few people very wealthy. That felt painfully relevant’
The Welsh actor on playing Ophelia in a new modern-day take, how bilingualism has shaped her, and the evergreen relevance of Shakespeare
Four new films to see this week: Is This Thing On?, Nouvelle Vague, Primate and Rabbit Trap
Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Zoey Deutch, Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 30th, 2026
Aisling Franciosi: ‘I’m doing exactly what I dreamed of doing when I was a kid’
The Dublin-born actor adds warmth and understated comedic flair to her role in James Sweeney’s Twinless
Rabbit Trap review: Folk horror that makes the ears twitch but raises few goosebumps
Though technically assured, this film set in the Welsh countryside in 1976 remains curiously hollow
Primate review: Johannes Roberts creature feature offers joyfully disposable entertainment
Nod to ethics gets left behind as rabid chimp runs riot among college kids
Four new films to see this week: The History of Sound, Mercy, No Other Choice and H Is for Hawk
Paul Mescal, Chris Pratt, Lee Byung-hun, Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 23rd, 2026
H Is for Hawk review: Sensitive, patient and exasperatingly still
Claire Foy and a bird of prey star in a study of grief stifled, displaced and occasionally stuffed in a woman-sized cardboard box
No Other Choice review: Park Chan-wook leans hard into slapstick in savage satire
Korean director remains ever the stylist but cartoonishness eclipses capitalist critique in this timely adaptation
No Other Choice director Park Chan-wook: ‘That is the challenge of cinema – how to communicate inner life without explaining it’
In the Korean auteur’s new film, the Squid Game star Lee Byung-hun ends up doing what capitalism did to him
Four new films to see this week: Rental Family, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, The Voice of Hind Rajab, Megadeth: Behind the Mask
Brendan Fraser, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell and Dave Mustaine feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 16th, 2026
European Film Awards 2026: Sentimental Value big winner at politically charged ceremony
Palestine features in several categories, while Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi speaks about oppression in his country
Megadeth: Behind the Mask review – Dave Mustaine thrashes it out about cancer, Cliff Burton and Metallica
One of the frankest frontmen in metal is in contemplative if occasionally irascible mood
The Voice of Hind Rajab review: A clear-headed chronicle of a Palestinian tragedy
The film’s spine is its use of the real audio recordings of the child of the title trapped in a car under Israeli fire in Gaza
Four new films to see this week: Hamnet, Giant, Oh, Canada and People We Meet on Vacation
Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Pierce Brosnan, Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 9th, 2026
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