50 films to see in 2025, from Babygirl to You’re Cordially Invited
Nicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay Saipan
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Sissy Spacek: ‘Weinstein did some unsavoury things. He could never look at me after that’
The star of Carrie, Badlands and Coal Miner’s Daughter on her decades-long career
Mark Rylance on theatre, film and his family’s tragedy: ‘For me, love is stronger than death’
The actor’s beloved stepdaughter, Nataasha van Kampen, died aged 28 in 2012
Film-maker Jim Cummings: The Hollywood that built Harvey Weinstein is still there
Cummings’s breakthrough style he calls ‘backyard Pixar’ is shaking up the film industry
Kevin Barry’s Spotify playlist: ‘State of Independence by Donna Summer always ended the night’
Check out the Night Boat to Tangier author’s playlist of songs he’s been listening to lately
Aidan Turner: ‘That photograph. Yeah. It took away from the work’
Poldark-turned-Leonardo da Vinci actor on ballroom dancing, hazmat suits and a thirst for stout
The Dig: Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes shine, but then things get a bit muddy
Film review: This wartime drama is Oscars material until a dull subplot gets in the way
From Saoirse Ronan’s Ammonite to Spielberg’s West Side Story, 50 films to watch in 2021 (we hope)
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year
Ennio Morricone, genius: ‘I didn’t know I was doing anything new or revolutionary’
Late composer was among tiny handful of film scorers whose work is instantly recognisable
Bong Joon Ho: ‘Even among ourselves we wonder why Korean cinema exploded’
His movie Parasite is bookies’ favourite – ahead of The Irishman and Joker – for a best film Oscar
August Diehl: ‘Acting with Malick you are part of a band making music’
German actor on preparing for A Hidden Life with the unconventional director
Cannes 2019: This year’s first five-star film, plus a lonely, whimpering Palm Dog
Cannes diary: Robert Pattinson stars in The Lighthouse; and a crowded market for mutts
Cannes 2019: Thierry biffs back the beamers – and gives us brilliant bags
Cannes diary: Gender parity, populist politics, freebies and zombies. It’s all go already
Cannes 2019: Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die gets festival off to glittering start
Star-studded cast of Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton and Chloë Sevigny light up red carpet
Cannes 2019: A busload of auteurs and pizzazz aplenty
Time will tell about the quality of the films – but the programme does not disappoint
Bruno Ganz, actor who played Hitler in ‘Downfall’, dies aged 77
Actor, who was diagnosed with cancer, was a key figure in German cinema
It’s indulgent, disordered and wildly up itself. But you shouldn’t miss it
‘The Other Side of the Wind’ is just part of the Orson Welles flotilla docked at Netflix Cove
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: ‘I wanted a dinosaur that would be very scary’
Director JA Bayona has more dinosaurs than any previous instalment and the most dangerous beastie to date
Beast: A psychosexual thriller with a touch of Hitchcock
Review: Killarney-born Jessie Buckley plays dark version of Little Red Riding Hood
Simon Fitzmaurice: ‘Inherently stubborn’ film-maker and family man
A crippling disease did not stop him making films or having children. He has died aged 43
Can Michael Fassbender rescue his terrible year?
The Irish actor has had 12 months of terrible films, in an otherwise sparkling career
Colin Farrell on film: The five career highs of a home-grown hero
This five-course feast takes us from his debut in Tigerland to the darkly comic The Lobster
A revolting orgy of indulgence laced with brilliance of so many images
Despite the Night review: Philippe Grandrieux’s film takes us to pretentious parties and horrible porn shoots
Rooney Mara: ‘Doing the Irish accent was terrifying’
The star of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ on Jim Sheridan's ‘The Secret Scripture’ and how her friend Cate Blanchett helped her get cast in sexual abuse drama ‘Una’
Song to Song: Terrence Malick’s worst film yet
This incoherent muddle of falling leaves, cameos and tracking shots has nowhere to go
A bloodless coup: The clean fight in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk
The auteur’s war film is stunning, but its heroic approach reflects an industry still uncomfortable with the bloody reality of the second World War
Dunkirk review: No guts but plenty of glory in Nolan’s heavy calibre war film
The greatest spectacle of the summer puts all others to shame
'My stepfather always told me you can’t trust anyone but family'
Trey Edward Shults has a gift for imagining the worst and his latest film is a horror in tune with these dystopian times
David O’Reilly: This Irish game-maker’s theory about ‘Everything’
The Irish animator’s new video game is a mind-blowing journey into philosophy where you can be almost anything
Jessica Chastain: ‘It was a very difficult upbringing’
The star of ‘The Help’ and now ‘Miss Sloane’ is taking on inequality in Hollywood and beyond
Paul Thomas Anderson on adapting Pynchon, directing Day-Lewis and keeping the melancholy at bay
The director of ‘Inherent Vice’ sits down with Donald Clarke to discuss the pressure of being called ‘America’s greatest film-maker’
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