John Malkovich cancels Israel trip over fabricated solidarity quote
The Wild Horse Nine actor had been due to appear on stage in The Music Critic in Tel Aviv – but pulled out over PR firm’s...
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Possible Love review – a tale of two couples is finely judged study of exploitation and friendship
Acclaimed Korean director Lee Chang-dong returns with an inspired account of an unhappy married couple befriended by a...
A remarkable documentary made by blind students: ‘We were stunned by the footage’
In Brailled It, the tension and stakes of the annual Braille Challenge are brought to the screen by three of the competitors For...
Faces of Death review – rework of notorious video nasty turns horror voyeurism into moral panic fable
A retelling of the 1978 ‘video nasty’ follows an online content moderator faced with steadily more appalling footage but reverts...
Nessun Dolore review – sketchy Roman fable of liberal white guilt
From the heart of Rome, and broadly in an Italian tradition of sentimentalist realism, film-maker Gianni Amelio brings us a...
Wild Horse Nine review: Malkovich and Rockwell head to Easter Island for McDonagh’s acid bromance
Venice film festival: Two men, some violence, much freewheeling chat: so far, so standard fare from the Oscar-winning...
By Any Means review – Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II drama provokes with horror of 1960s racism
Elegance Bratton’s civil rights drama in the Jim Crow south confronts you with almost unbearable brutality Black people officially won the...
Martin McDonagh says CIA has ‘done awful things all around the world’
The US’s history of intervening in democratic processes around the world deserves more attention in the light of current political developments,...
Falling House review – fierce tale of an Iranian prison guard holding his family hostage
Venice film festival: Mohsen Gharaei’s powerfully acted domestic drama watches as the failing patriarch attempts to contain family rebellion Iran is...
Tall tales: the 20 best giants in film – ranked!
20. The BFG (2016) Not a first-person-shooter BFG, alas, but one of Steven Spielberg’s worst films, reducing Roald Dahl’s story to digital pap....
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home review – Kirk, Spock and co on semi-intentionally hilarious save-the-whale mission
Our heroes travel back through time to San Francisco in 1986 so they can commune with aliens threatening future Earth – it’s preposterously good fun...
Lomu review – fascinatingly nuanced tribute to rugby’s first superstar
His destructive pace and power changed the game for ever, but behind the fame and ineffable exterior of this gentle giant was a life of chaos and...
Ink review – Danny Boyle turns the birth of the Sun into a lurid tabloid frenzy
Venice film festival Jack O’Connell is terrific as editor Larry Lamb in James Graham’s tale of Rupert Murdoch, Page 3 and the newspaper that...
Female film-makers still being squeezed out of industry, London film festival director says
Female film-makers are still being squeezed out of the industry as they progress beyond their debut films, the director of the London film festival...
Rupert Murdoch ‘very happy’ that Guy Pearce plays him in Fleet Street biopic Ink
Rupert Murdoch is “very happy” that he’s being portrayed by Guy Pearce in a new film about the origins of British tabloid the Sun, the Australian...
Mayday review – Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh set cold war bromance alight
An American fighter pilot teams up with a retired KGB officer for hijinks and hilarity in Soviet Russia Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh star in...
‘He’s a good man’: George Clooney defends Mark Ruffalo in Paramount-Warner Bros merger row
George Clooney has defended Mark Ruffalo’s right to criticise the proposed $111bn Paramount takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, saying he is concerned...
The Eyes Wide Shut conspiracy theory: did someone cut a crucial 20 minutes from Kubrick’s final movie?
Name: The Eyes Wide Shut conspiracy Age: The erotic psychological thriller Eyes Wide Shut starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman (married at the time,...
Was Paul Mescal being ‘not masculine enough’ the reason Gladiator II flopped?
Mescal’s nuanced performance in Ridley Scott’s belated sequel has been blamed by some for the film’s box office underperformance. May I suggest Jason...
Maggie Gyllenhaal says film industry has a ‘systemic problem’ with sexism
Maggie Gyllenhaal said there is a “systemic problem” that explains why only two female directors are in the running for the Golden Lion at the Venice...
Fall 2: Deadpoint review – silly seat-edge sequel can’t reach heights of the original
There was plenty of silliness but also plenty of suspense in 2022’s modestly successful don’t-look-down thriller Fall, a surprisingly well-made...
‘He was always a bit of a groundbreaker’: David Bowie enters a new dimension in ‘extended reality’ documentary
Hundreds of unseen images of the star feature at the Venice film festival, alongside virtual worlds exploring wildfires, wolves and the birth of...
Late Fame review – Willem Dafoe superb as ever as twilight-years bohemian getting a second chance
Samy Burch’s adaptation of an Arthur Schnitzler novella sees Dafoe’s ageing poet embraced by a younger cohort of capricious hipsters. It’s smart,...
Oasis, auteurs and seven hours of Bertolucci: 12 unmissable movies from Venice film festival
Ink Danny Boyle’s movie, adapted by James Graham from his own play, is a primal scene of modern Britain and its agonies over class, culture and...
Ukrainian film-maker criticises EU after it cuts Venice Biennale funding over Russia controversy
One of Ukraine’s most acclaimed film-makers has criticised the European Commission’s decision to cut off funds to the Venice Biennale over the...
The Runner review – Gal Gadot stumbles through derivative high-speed, low-rent thriller
A string of London locations can’t save Amazon’s overly familiar B-movie dragged down by another ineffective performance by the Wonder Woman star...
Todd Haynes and Wallace Shawn among signatories of letter backing Mark Ruffalo amid antisemitism charge
A collective of more than 170 prominent Jewish artists – including Todd Haynes, Joel Coen, Miranda July, Hannah Einbinder, Wallace Shawn and Naomi...
‘Not just Hollywood crap’: Mike Leigh on the East End communist who brought world cinema to the UK
A new season at the BFI celebrates Contemporary Films and its founder Charles Cooper, who bet on Britain taking to Ingmar Bergman, Yasujiro Ozu,...
‘Led us down such a dark path’: documentary explores how 9/11 changed America
Twenty-five years on, memory is giving way to history. Soon the US will cross the point where half its population were born after 11 September 2001...
Super Nature review – crowd-sourced Super 8 film is a triumphant collage of hope for the natural world
Film-maker Ed Sayers’ project gathered footage from collaborators all over the world, cleverly edited to combine human and animal contributions This...
Summer box office 2026: what can we learn from the hits and misses?
As the world continued to burn and temperatures reached worrying highs, most of us decided to take refuge in the cinema this summer. It provided some...
The Extractor review – Indonesian hostage-rescue thriller has surprising thread of gentleness at its core
Can an elite team of soldiers rescue a band of innocent hostages from a bunch of mean old terrorists? Yes, probably, since there are few (if any)...
Beveridge revisited: Simon Callow film celebrates the radical co-founder of Britain’s welfare state
A new film that addresses issues fundamental to the new prime minister’s declared mission will star Simon Callow as a historical British political...
Onslaught review – super soldier slasher doesn’t go hard enough
There’s a committed performance from a spunky Adria Arjona in the Guest director Adam Wingard’s decent B-movie but it’s missing some sharper weaponry...
Parasomnia review – sleep-schedule horror conjures up a succubus on the loose in waking nightmare
Debut director James Ross II shows promise in this gore fest, but the fear factor suffers from an overly complex plot Sleep has been part of the...
‘Sometimes you just need a good cry’: why Little Women is my feelgood movie
I have an ongoing argument with some friends about how I refuse to watch Interstellar again, despite considering it a beautiful and well-crafted...
Bel review – the powerful life force and haunting absence of a traumatised singer-songwriter
Beldina Odenyo alchemised the pain of exile, loss and racism into music as Heir of the Cursed before her death in 2021, as this attentive tribute...
The Black Garden review – haunting study of growing up in war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh
Alexis Pazoumian’s documentary follows Samvel and Avo, two preteen boys whose lives will be unavoidably scarred by brutal conflict After the Soviet...
Big tech goes to Hollywood: is Silicon Valley ready for a silver-screen reckoning?
Its moguls are ripe subjects for drama, and there is huge anticipation for forthcoming features The Social Reckoning and Artificial. But other...
Rob Reiner’s son Jake gives first interview after parents’ deaths: ‘I will never understand why this happened’
Jake Reiner has given his first interview since the killing of his parents, the film-maker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, saying: “I...
‘I don’t care if I look good’: French heartthrob Louis Garrel on fashion, fatherhood and his radically dorky new role
The star has long been French cinema’s favourite tousle-haired Adonis, which makes his latest performance – as a schlubby, stay-at-home dad – all the...
Memo to Ridley Scott: no one needs more Alien: Covenant movies – get the franchise back to stalk’n’slash
If any science-fiction saga looked beyond recovery, it was the Alien franchise. For the 38 years that followed James Cameron’s Aliens, film-makers...
