Minions: The Rise of Gru — Despicable mediocrityFilm review: A series of skits that never threatens to congeal into anything resembling a plotFri Jul 01 2022 - 06:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekendElvis, The Black Phone, Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest, The Big HitSun Jun 26 2022 - 06:00
Wim Wenders: Looking back through the rear-view mirrorThe German film-maker on Paris, Texas; Bono; and a 50-year career as the IFI stages a retrospectiveSat Jun 25 2022 - 06:00
The Big Hit: Big-hearted Beckett production in a French prisonFilm review: Prisoners wait for Godot in this irresistible yet undercooked filmFri Jun 24 2022 - 06:00
The Black Phone: Spooky tale of child abduction and maligned spiritsFilm Review: Ethan Hawke scares the kids in Blumhouse’s latest thrillerFri Jun 24 2022 - 00:00
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 characterSat Jun 18 2022 - 06:00
Lightyear: There’s no buzz to this Toy Story spin-offA solid sci-fi concept gives way to bare adequacy and a perfunctory feelFri Jun 17 2022 - 05:00
Pleasure: Hard-hitting drama about LA’s dark porn underbellyDirector Ninja Thyberg’s ironically titled film betrays a misogynistic and toxic industryFri 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’The up-and-coming Greek film-maker talks about unspoken love, Tarot cards, and why she doesn’t subscribe to the so-called Weird WaveTue Jun 14 2022 - 06:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekSwan Song, All My Friends Hate Me, Earwig, Jurassic World DominionSun Jun 12 2022 - 06:00
Elvis is back in the buildingBaz Luhrmann on his very rhinestone, glitter-bomb version of The KingSat Jun 11 2022 - 06:00
Swan Song: Death has seldom been so much funUdo Kier puts in a career-best turn in director Todd Stephens’s impeccable odysseyFri Jun 10 2022 - 05:00
All My Friends Hate Me: A brilliant British horror-comedy of mannersWhen old college chums gather in a country house in Devon, there’s misunderstood jokes, inappropriate pranks and fearFri Jun 10 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekMen, I Am Zlatan, Olga, Bergman’s IslandSun Jun 05 2022 - 06:00
I am Zlatan: Engaging portrait of a true football superstarThis dramatisation of the Swedish footballer’s life will engage even non-fansFri Jun 03 2022 - 05:00
Bergman Island: Despite the name, this is no masterpieceStudy of tensions among film-makers is a misfireFri Jun 03 2022 - 05:00
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 partnerThu Jun 02 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekTop Gun: Maverick, The Bob’s Burgers Movie, Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s), Between Two WorldsSun May 29 2022 - 06:00
Cannes 2022: Taylor Swift dodges a bullet by missing her boyfriend’s premiereTara Brady frockwatches and sees the festival’s best and most forgettable filmsFri May 27 2022 - 12:34
Between Two Worlds: Juliette Binoche scrubs toilets, problematicallyWell-meaning film can’t overcome its queasy premise and contradictionsFri May 27 2022 - 05:00
Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s) – Interesting but superficialDocumentary has a wealth of materials but gets no closer to revealing the personFri May 27 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekThe Innocents, Benediction, a-ha: The Movie, The Road DanceSun May 22 2022 - 06:00
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 tailspinsSat May 21 2022 - 05:00
A-ha: The Movie – entertaining take on troubled Norwegian trioPortrait of synthpop stars is no Some Kind of Monster, but enjoyable nonethelessFri May 20 2022 - 05:00
The Innocents: Be very afraid of the childrenFilm review: A sense of psychic dread pervades this paranormal dramaFri May 20 2022 - 05:00
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’sMon May 16 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekAn Cailín Ciúin, Vortex, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Drover’s WifeSun May 15 2022 - 06:00
Calam Lynch, the Cusack acting dynasty’s brightest new starThe Bridgerton actor on his famous family and his new role in Terence Davies’s BenedictionSat May 14 2022 - 05:00
Vortex: Gaspar Noé’s hardest-hitting film to dateThe enfant terrible’s study of dementia is as disturbing as any of his earlier filmsFri May 13 2022 - 05:00
Everything Everywhere All at Once review: Wacky adventures in the multiverseMichelle Yeoh sparkles in much-anticipated comic sci-fiWed May 11 2022 - 10:51
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 IrishSat May 07 2022 - 05:00
Wild Men: Masculinity in an absurdist crisisFilm review: Thomas Daneskov’s amusing Danish comedy caper accentuates the ridiculousFri May 06 2022 - 05:00
Wake Up Punk: Railing against the commodification machineFilm review: Lively, ragged documentary bemoans sad fate of once-spiky movementFri May 06 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekDownton Abbey: A New Era, The Velvet Queen, Casablanca Beats, The Lady of HeavenSun May 01 2022 - 06:00
Casablanca Beats film review: A messy but vibrant street musicalWhile the teacher remains unknowable his charges are open books begging to be readFri Apr 29 2022 - 05:00
The Velvet Queen is quite unlike any other wildlife filmCannes prizewinner features trio’s search for the regal snow leopard of the titleFri Apr 29 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas and stream this weekHappening, Playground, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, EnnioSun Apr 24 2022 - 06:00
‘Music and dancing is like oxygen...It’s super important’Casablanca Beats is a mash-up docu-drama and hip-hop musical set in a Moroccan suburbSat Apr 23 2022 - 00:00
Playground review: Powerful depiction of school bullyingClautrophobic setting intensifies the sense of dreadFri Apr 22 2022 - 05:00
Ennio review: Warm portrait of cinema’s greatest maestroTributes become repetitive but there’s much to enjoy in this documentary about Ennio MorriconeFri Apr 22 2022 - 05:00
‘It was a novel that was read by everyone’The 10th anniversary tour of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, adapted from the novel by Mark Haddon, comes to Dublin’s Bord Gáis EnergyThu Apr 21 2022 - 06:00
‘Illegal abortions are not an old story for many women’Audrey Diwan on her new film, Happening, based the 2000 memoir by celebrated French writer Annie ErnauxTue Apr 19 2022 - 00:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekRobert Eggers’s The Northman, Bullock & Tatum in The Lost City, Small Body, BenedetaSun Apr 17 2022 - 06:00
Benedetta: Absurd, bodice-ripping nunsploitation flickReview: Paul Verhoeven has made an explicit, curiously unsexy version of Carry On, SisterFri Apr 15 2022 - 05:00
Small Body: Don’t miss this lush productionCeleste Cescutti leads largely unprofessional cast with a fierce performanceFri Apr 15 2022 - 05:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekThe Outfit, Fantastic Beasts 3, Compartment No 6, All I Can SaySun Apr 10 2022 - 06:00
All I Can Say: Moving portrait of a 1990s rock’n’roll casualtyDocumentary does fine job of sifting through footage of Blind Melon singer Shannon HoonFri Apr 08 2022 - 05:00
Compartment No 6: Strangers bond on a trainCannes award-winner follows unlikely friendship in post-Soviet RussiaFri Apr 08 2022 - 05:00
‘I had to plan to give birth in five hospitals on the way to Cannes’Croatian filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic on success and sexismMon Apr 04 2022 - 00:00
Four new films to see in cinemas this weekTrue Things, Morbius, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, The Bad GuysSun Apr 03 2022 - 06:00
