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Notre Dame on Fire: Too soon

Notre Dame on Fire: Too soon

Film review: Jean-Jacques Annaud’s French disaster film feels too fresh to yield any surprises

Fri Jul 22 2022 - 00:00
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

Persuasion and The Gray Man streaming, The Railway Children Return and McEnroe on cinema release

Sun Jul 17 2022 - 06:00
Russo brothers: ‘There’s an inherent elitism in Anglo Cinema that is not interesting to us’

Russo brothers: ‘There’s an inherent elitism in Anglo Cinema that is not interesting to us’

Having directed four of the biggest movies of all time, Anthony and Joe Russo know what their audience wants — and how to reach it

Sat Jul 16 2022 - 05:00
McEnroe: Engaging chronicle of the softening of a superbrat

McEnroe: Engaging chronicle of the softening of a superbrat

The liveliest archive footage dates from McEnroe’s early punkish appearances on court

Fri Jul 15 2022 - 06:00
The Gray Man: High-octane hokum

The Gray Man: High-octane hokum

Film review: The Russo Bros return with Netflix’s biggest-budget movie to date, and it will make you pine for the relative complexity of Fast & Furious

Fri Jul 15 2022 - 06:00
Director Carrie Cracknell on Persuasion: ‘I always intended to absolutely honour the heart of the book’

Director Carrie Cracknell on Persuasion: ‘I always intended to absolutely honour the heart of the book’

Netflix has a new Jane Austen adaptation starring Dakota Johnson and Richard E Grant

Wed Jul 13 2022 - 05:30
Four new films to see this week

Four new films to see this week

The Sea Beast streaming, Thor: Love and Thunder, Brian and Charles and Futura on cinema release

Sun Jul 10 2022 - 06:00
Brian and Charles: A whimsical delight

Brian and Charles: A whimsical delight

Film review: English comedy about an inventor and his robot is like Wallace & Gromit without the clay

Fri Jul 08 2022 - 06:00
Futura: A vibrant, vital chronicle of young Italy

Futura: A vibrant, vital chronicle of young Italy

Film review: Documentary finds an alarming sense of uncertainty among its subjects

Fri Jul 08 2022 - 06:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Nitram, The Princess, Pompo: The Cinephile, Minions: The Rise of Gru

Sun Jul 03 2022 - 06:00
The massacre that ‘shifted everything in Australia ... It’s taboo to discuss it’

The massacre that ‘shifted everything in Australia ... It’s taboo to discuss it’

Justin Kurzel’s Cannes prizewinning film, Nitram, deals with an Australian tragedy — the Port Arthur Massacre

Sat Jul 02 2022 - 06:00
Brian and Charles — a debut feature from David Earl

Brian and Charles — a debut feature from David Earl

Ricky Gervais regular David Earl has co-written and starred in the summer’s most anticipated comedy

Sat Jul 02 2022 - 00:01
Pompo: The Cinéphile — A lively anime love letter to movie-making

Pompo: The Cinéphile — A lively anime love letter to movie-making

An attractive leading lady is overshadowed by the auteur’s hauteur

Fri Jul 01 2022 - 06:00
Minions: The Rise of Gru — Despicable mediocrity

Minions: The Rise of Gru — Despicable mediocrity

Film review: A series of skits that never threatens to congeal into anything resembling a plot

Fri Jul 01 2022 - 06:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekend

Four new films to see in cinemas this weekend

Elvis, The Black Phone, Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest, The Big Hit

Sun Jun 26 2022 - 06:00
Wim Wenders: Looking back through the rear-view mirror

Wim Wenders: Looking back through the rear-view mirror

The German film-maker on Paris, Texas; Bono; and a 50-year career as the IFI stages a retrospective

Sat Jun 25 2022 - 06:00
The Big Hit: Big-hearted Beckett production in a French prison

The Big Hit: Big-hearted Beckett production in a French prison

Film review: Prisoners wait for Godot in this irresistible yet undercooked film

Fri Jun 24 2022 - 06:00
The Black Phone: Spooky tale of child abduction and maligned spirits

The Black Phone: Spooky tale of child abduction and maligned spirits

Film Review: Ethan Hawke scares the kids in Blumhouse’s latest thriller

Fri Jun 24 2022 - 00:00
Daryl McCormack arrives as a leading man  — in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Daryl McCormack arrives as a leading man — in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

In this sex-positive movie, McCormack plays a smooth-talking sex worker hired by Emma Thompson’s character

Sat Jun 18 2022 - 06:00
Lightyear: There’s no buzz to this Toy Story spin-off

Lightyear: There’s no buzz to this Toy Story spin-off

A solid sci-fi concept gives way to bare adequacy and a perfunctory feel

Fri Jun 17 2022 - 05:00
Pleasure: Hard-hitting drama about LA’s dark porn underbelly

Pleasure: Hard-hitting drama about LA’s dark porn underbelly

Director Ninja Thyberg’s ironically titled film betrays a misogynistic and toxic industry

Fri Jun 17 2022 - 05:00
Jacqueline Lentzou: ‘I could not find a producer because most producers here are men and they would look at me as if an alien’

Jacqueline Lentzou: ‘I could not find a producer because most producers here are men and they would look at me as if an alien’

The up-and-coming Greek film-maker talks about unspoken love, Tarot cards, and why she doesn’t subscribe to the so-called Weird Wave

Tue Jun 14 2022 - 06:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Swan Song, All My Friends Hate Me, Earwig, Jurassic World Dominion

Sun Jun 12 2022 - 06:00
Elvis is back in the building

Elvis is back in the building

Baz Luhrmann on his very rhinestone, glitter-bomb version of The King

Sat Jun 11 2022 - 06:00
Swan Song: Death has seldom been so much fun

Swan Song: Death has seldom been so much fun

Udo Kier puts in a career-best turn in director Todd Stephens’s impeccable odyssey

Fri Jun 10 2022 - 05:00
All My Friends Hate Me: A brilliant British horror-comedy of manners

All My Friends Hate Me: A brilliant British horror-comedy of manners

When old college chums gather in a country house in Devon, there’s misunderstood jokes, inappropriate pranks and fear

Fri Jun 10 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Men, I Am Zlatan, Olga, Bergman’s Island

Sun Jun 05 2022 - 06:00
I am Zlatan: Engaging portrait of a true football superstar

I am Zlatan: Engaging portrait of a true football superstar

This dramatisation of the Swedish footballer’s life will engage even non-fans

Fri Jun 03 2022 - 05:00
Bergman Island: Despite the name, this is no masterpiece

Bergman Island: Despite the name, this is no masterpiece

Study of tensions among film-makers is a misfire

Fri Jun 03 2022 - 05:00
Lucile Hadzihalilovic: ‘I grew up in south Morocco ... there was not a lot of access to the cinema’

Lucile Hadzihalilovic: ‘I grew up in south Morocco ... there was not a lot of access to the cinema’

Filmmaker discusses her new, unusual, project Earwig and working with her partner

Thu Jun 02 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Top Gun: Maverick, The Bob’s Burgers Movie, Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s), Between Two Worlds

Sun May 29 2022 - 06:00
Cannes 2022: Taylor Swift dodges a bullet by missing her boyfriend’s premiere

Cannes 2022: Taylor Swift dodges a bullet by missing her boyfriend’s premiere

Tara Brady frockwatches and sees the festival’s best and most forgettable films

Fri May 27 2022 - 12:34
Between Two Worlds: Juliette Binoche scrubs toilets, problematically

Between Two Worlds: Juliette Binoche scrubs toilets, problematically

Well-meaning film can’t overcome its queasy premise and contradictions

Fri May 27 2022 - 05:00
Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s) – Interesting but superficial

Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s) – Interesting but superficial

Documentary has a wealth of materials but gets no closer to revealing the person

Fri May 27 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Four new films to see in cinemas this week

The Innocents, Benediction, a-ha: The Movie, The Road Dance

Sun May 22 2022 - 06:00
Top Gun producer Jerry Bruckheimer: ‘We thought we had the biggest flop in the world’

Top Gun producer Jerry Bruckheimer: ‘We thought we had the biggest flop in the world’

It took three decades getting the sequel off the ground. It’s a story full of twists and turns and tailspins

Sat May 21 2022 - 05:00
A-ha: The Movie – entertaining take on troubled Norwegian trio

A-ha: The Movie – entertaining take on troubled Norwegian trio

Portrait of synthpop stars is no Some Kind of Monster, but enjoyable nonetheless

Fri May 20 2022 - 05:00
The Innocents: Be very afraid of the children

The Innocents: Be very afraid of the children

Film review: A sense of psychic dread pervades this paranormal drama

Fri May 20 2022 - 05:00
Françoise Lebrun: ‘I’m just an actor. I can only interpret’

Françoise Lebrun: ‘I’m just an actor. I can only interpret’

Star of La Maman et La Putain on her role in Gaspar Noé’s film about age and Alzheimer’s

Mon May 16 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Four new films to see in cinemas this week

An Cailín Ciúin, Vortex, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Drover’s Wife

Sun May 15 2022 - 06:00
Calam Lynch, the Cusack acting dynasty’s brightest new star

Calam Lynch, the Cusack acting dynasty’s brightest new star

The Bridgerton actor on his famous family and his new role in Terence Davies’s Benediction

Sat May 14 2022 - 05:00
Vortex: Gaspar Noé’s hardest-hitting film to date

Vortex: Gaspar Noé’s hardest-hitting film to date

The enfant terrible’s study of dementia is as disturbing as any of his earlier films

Fri May 13 2022 - 05:00
Everything Everywhere All at Once review: Wacky adventures in the multiverse

Everything Everywhere All at Once review: Wacky adventures in the multiverse

Michelle Yeoh sparkles in much-anticipated comic sci-fi

Wed May 11 2022 - 10:51
Making An Cailín Ciúin: ‘An Irish-language film going toe to toe with world cinema was special’

Making An Cailín Ciúin: ‘An Irish-language film going toe to toe with world cinema was special’

Colm Bairéad’s film of Claire Keegan’s story is part of a new wave of cinema in Irish

Sat May 07 2022 - 05:00
Wild Men: Masculinity in an absurdist crisis

Wild Men: Masculinity in an absurdist crisis

Film review: Thomas Daneskov’s amusing Danish comedy caper accentuates the ridiculous

Fri May 06 2022 - 05:00

Wake Up Punk: Railing against the commodification machine

Film review: Lively, ragged documentary bemoans sad fate of once-spiky movement

Fri May 06 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Four new films to see in cinemas this week

Downton Abbey: A New Era, The Velvet Queen, Casablanca Beats, The Lady of Heaven

Sun May 01 2022 - 06:00
Casablanca Beats film review: A messy but vibrant street musical

Casablanca Beats film review: A messy but vibrant street musical

While the teacher remains unknowable his charges are open books begging to be read

Fri Apr 29 2022 - 05:00
The Velvet Queen is quite unlike any other wildlife film

The Velvet Queen is quite unlike any other wildlife film

Cannes prizewinner features trio’s search for the regal snow leopard of the title

Fri Apr 29 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas and stream this week

Four new films to see in cinemas and stream this week

Happening, Playground, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Ennio

Sun Apr 24 2022 - 06:00
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