Monster director Hirokazu Kore-eda: ‘The eyes of children offer a clearer view of the world than the eyes of adults’Whether in Nobody Knows, Shoplifters or Like Father, Like Son, the Japanese auteur can dramatise children’s inner lives like no other film-makerWed Mar 13 2024 - 03:15
Four new films to see this weekDo Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Copa 71, Origin, High & Low: John GallianoSun Mar 10 2024 - 10:13
High & Low: John Galliano review – Designer documentary is no puff piece but it doesn’t quite elicit the answers it seeksIntriguing film about the British fashion icon ultimately fails to get to the bottom of racist and anti-Semitic remarks that got him firedFri Mar 08 2024 - 05:00
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World review: a mischievous, scathing, sprawling provocationDay-in-the-life portrait of an overworked production assistant has won an impressive haul of awardsThu Mar 07 2024 - 05:00
Copa 71: ‘These women were gaslit. Imagine playing a sport at the highest level and then being told, that didn’t exist’Two decades before the first Fifa Women’s World Cup, six teams competed in front of huge crowds in Mexico City in an almost-forgotten tournamentWed Mar 06 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekDune: Part Two, Lisa Frankenstein, Spaceman, Four DaughtersSun Mar 03 2024 - 05:00
Four Daughters review: Riveting Oscar-nominated documentary deconstructs a global news storyA Tunisian matriarch and her four daughters – two of them played by actors – delve into their troubled pastFri Mar 01 2024 - 05:00
Spaceman review: Adam Sandler journeys into a trippy interstellar cloud with a giant Nutella-loving alien spiderJohan Renck’s film turns out to ponderous, however, eschewing journey and destination in favour of the symbolicThu Feb 29 2024 - 05:00
Red Island director Robin Campillo: ‘In France we did not process the colonial experience of Madagascar so well. This was a forgotten story’The man behind 120 BPM has made a film about his experiences as the child of a ‘very right-wing’ French military father in the former colonyWed Feb 28 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekWim Wenders’s Tokyo-set Perfect Days, plus Memory, Wicked Little Letters and The Moon ThievesSun Feb 25 2024 - 05:00
Dune: Part 2 director Denis Villeneuve – ‘I loved the idea of divers in the desert’Second instalment zones in on the story of Paul, played by Timothée Chalamet, and ChaniSat Feb 24 2024 - 05:15
The Moon Thieves review: Cantopop stars can look out of place in this chaotic horology heistMembers of the band Mirror make up youthful ensemble in this throwaway entertainmentThu Feb 22 2024 - 05:00
Memory review: Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard are outstanding in Michel Franco’s newest provocationFranco leaves several smoking guns to add to the ethical and narrative knottinessThu Feb 22 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekBob Marley: One Life, Madame Web, The Promised Land, The Taste of ThingsSun Feb 18 2024 - 05:00
Jessica Chastain: ‘I like the unlikeable characters. The world is not black and white’‘With acting, if there’s nothing at stake, then is it worth doing?’ asks the Oscar winnerSat Feb 17 2024 - 05:30
The Promised Land: Nordic demi-western is powered along by Mads Mikkelsen’s rugged charisma Mads Mikkelsen is a formidable retired army captain of low birth seeking title and legitimacy by colonising the punishing, barren heath of JutlandThu Feb 15 2024 - 05:00
The Taste of Things: Gastroporn doesn’t come more XXX-rated than this insanely pretty, airily vacant French fancyComme ci, comme ça: why was this slight film with its ludicrously gleaming kitchen chosen ahead of Anatomy of a Fall for France’s predictably unsuccessful Oscar bid?Wed Feb 14 2024 - 05:00
Film-maker Guy Maddin: ‘My first feature probably had a walkout rate of 60%’The Canadian director, who is the subject of a retrospective at this month’s Dublin International Film Festival, on his experimental approach to moviesMon Feb 12 2024 - 05:15
‘The Irish were always playing Bob Marley’: One Love star Kingsley Ben-Adir on growing up with the reggae iconBob Marley’s music is ‘a spiritual thing’, says the actor, who took the lead role in Reinaldo Marcus Green’s biopic at the request of the Jamaican star’s familySun Feb 11 2024 - 05:15
Four new films to see this weekOccupied City, The Settlers, The Iron Claw, Double BlindSun Feb 11 2024 - 05:00
Mads Mikkelsen: ‘I try to jump into a character as fast as I can and leave as fast as I can’Danish actor on his latest film The Promised Land, Hollywood and perceptions of fame, shooting in cold weather, Nicolas Winding Refn, Bruce Lee and how he originally trained as a dancerSat Feb 10 2024 - 05:15
The Settlers: A masterfully staged film styles Chile’s genocidal past as a spaghetti western to chilling effectThere are no good guys in Felipe Gálvez Haberle’s directorial debut about a murderous colonial mission at the turn of the centuryFri Feb 09 2024 - 05:00
The Iron Claw: Wild true story makes for darkly tragic, completely gripping old-school TV movieTrue story of the Von Erich wrestling clan is a tale of corrosive masculinity and suffocating parental pressureThu Feb 08 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekFive stars for astonishing drama The Zone of Interest. Plus multi-Oscar-nominated American Fiction, Japanese anime Blue Giant, and silly but fun comedy-thriller ArgylleSun Feb 04 2024 - 05:00
American Fiction review: Jeffrey Wright gives a knockout performance in this edgy, Oscar-nominated comedyCord Jefferson marries broad humour with affecting familial dysfunction and biting observations on raceThu Feb 01 2024 - 05:10
Blue Giant: This big-screen experience is as improbably close to watching a live performance as animation can getCarefully calibrated soundtrack composed by celebrated jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara steals the showWed Jan 31 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekAll of Us Strangers, The Color Purple, Samsara, Padre PioSun Jan 28 2024 - 05:00
Padre Pio: A breathtakingly intense Shia LeBeouf lifts Abel Ferrara’s messy historyThe fiercely committed actor lived in a Capuchin monastery and reportedly converted to Catholicism during productionFri Jan 26 2024 - 05:00
The Color Purple: Polished musical looks pretty and sounds fabulous without ever blazing up the screenThis too often feels like a retread of the Spielberg film with occasional song interruptionsThu Jan 25 2024 - 05:00
Samsara director Lois Patiño: ‘I had this radical idea of watching a film with your eyes closed’The Spanish film-maker has come as close as anyone could to a movie adaptation of the Tibetan Book of the DeadMon Jan 22 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week: Mean Girls, The Holdovers, The End We Start From, The KitchenFrom big-screen translation of the stage musical based on the 2004 high-school classic to a terrifying vision of neoliberal blighted London in the 2040sSun Jan 21 2024 - 05:00
American Fiction star Jeffrey Wright: ‘We are not good at conversations about race’ The Oscar-tipped star of American Fiction was steeped in storytelling as a child. But he also puts his success down to an Irish theatre directorSat Jan 20 2024 - 05:15
The Kitchen: Urban grit with spectacular sci-fi trimmings in Daniel Kaluuya’s directorial debutThis is a terrifying vision of neoliberal blighted London in the 2040sFri Jan 19 2024 - 05:00
The End We Start From review: Jodie Comer shines as a new mother surviving in apocalyptic circumstancesDirector Mahalia Belo’s savvy debut is enhanced by a gifted castThu Jan 18 2024 - 05:00
‘Werner Herzog lives every day like he wants his life to be an adventure’ Thomas von Steinaecker goes deep beneath the skin of the much-mythologised German film-maker in his documentary Radical DreamerTue Jan 16 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this week: Poor Things, The Beekeeper, Freaks vs the Reich, LiftPoor Things, The Beekeeper, Freaks vs the Reich, LiftSun Jan 14 2024 - 05:00
Freaks vs the Reich review: Superpowered circus acts take on the Nazis in this historical monster mashDespite its premise, this carnivalesque alternate history is closer in tone to Hellboy than throwaway Syfy-channel NaziploitationFri Jan 12 2024 - 04:57
The Beekeeper review: Jason Statham strolls into armies of enemies like an annoyed man taking out overflowing binsA film about explosions and bad guys getting their comeuppance is a good fit for the action veteran, dodgy accent asideThu Jan 11 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekEmpathetic take on well-known Andean crash survivors story Society of the Snow, plus Anthony Hopkins in fine historical drama One Life, fun documentary Scala!!!, and uneven comedy-drama Good GriefSun Jan 07 2024 - 05:00
Good Grief: Dan Levy’s bereavement comedy doesn’t quite come togetherThe script cannot quite reconcile grief with the film’s romcom ambitions, but a promising first filmThu Jan 04 2024 - 05:00
‘The Scala made sleaze romantic. That cinema was a refuge from suburbia’Founded by Crying Game producer Stephen Woolley, the London club helped change attitudes to cinemaWed Jan 03 2024 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekFive stars for Sofia Coppola’s perceptive Priscilla biopic but only two for Michael Mann’s plodding Ferrari. Plus: Ben Kingsley in a charming ET for geezers and John Cena in a rotten action comedySun Dec 31 2023 - 05:00
50 films to see in 2024: From All of Us Strangers to Gladiator 2Against all odds – and the best efforts of studio executives – 2024 is going to be a fantastic year for cinemaSat Dec 30 2023 - 06:15
Jules: This sci-fi adventure feels like ET for older peopleThis pleasant dramedy is jollied along by its talented veteran ensemble and the odd narrative curveballFri Dec 29 2023 - 05:00
Ferrari: Even Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz can’t save this dull mech-bro biopicFerrari, as adapted from Brock Yates’ 1991 biography, Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine, has been knocking around Hollywood for decadesTue Dec 26 2023 - 05:00
Four new films to see this weekSpiritual Japanese animation The Boy and the Heron and exemplary documentary on fearless photographer Trish Murtha. Plus: misfired sports biopic Next Goal Wins and dull Star Wars clone Rebel MoonSun Dec 24 2023 - 05:00
Tish: Each photograph Tish Murphy took was an act of solidarity, the antithesis of ‘poverty porn’Paul Sng’s exemplary documentary chronicles the life and work of the late photographerFri Dec 22 2023 - 05:00
Society of the Snow: A rugby team’s flight crashes in the Andes. The survivors are forced into cannibalism. This is the best screen account yetTechnically, it’s a marvel: the cinematographer Pedro Luque finds variations in the snowbound predicamentFri Dec 22 2023 - 05:00
The Boy and the Heron: Studio Ghibli pioneer Hayao Miyazaki bids farewell with a masterpieceThe Japanese director has threatened to retire twice, most recently after the 2013 release of The Wind Rises, a film that felt like a definitive farewellWed Dec 20 2023 - 05:00
‘People assume I was having play dates with Lily Allen and Peaches Geldof. We didn’t know anyone in show business’Leo Leigh grew up in the film world. In Sweet Sue, his first feature, his approach to movie-making has produced one of the year’s most complex female charactersWed Dec 20 2023 - 05:00
