Four new films to see this week: Kontinental 25, Kenny Dalglish, Bugonia and Palestine 36
Hiam Abbass, Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, and Eszter Tompa feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 31st, 2025
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Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons on Bugonia: ‘I forget all the time that I won best actor at Cannes’
Yorgos Lanthimos’s careering, unsettling film lets Stone demonstrate her range, as her character tries every trick to win over Plemons’s twitching lunatic
Bugonia review: Mid-ranking Yorgosia that just about justifies its many indulgences
Taut, fabulous-looking chamber piece starring Emma Stone could survive staging in a pub theatre
At Venice film festival, it can be worth getting soaked to the underwear for a not very good movie
Jay Kelly, starring George Clooney, and After the Hunt, featuring Julia Roberts, were, respectively, pedestrian and dizzyingly incoherent
Zero Day review: Robert De Niro in his element as grouchy US president in fun Netflix technothriller
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Kinds of Kindness review: A pounding headache might be the only reward for your patience
Yorgos Lanthimos’s new triptych film features the talented Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and others, but it dissolves into a mess of half-decent ideas
‘The intimacy co-ordinators are kind of unshockable’: Emma Stone on her new film with Yorgos Lanthimos
If you thought their Oscar-winning collaboration Poor Things was unconventional, wait for the full-throttle madness of Kinds of Kindness
Killers of the Flower Moon review: Exquisitely mounted, impeccably finished and just a little worthy
You couldn’t exactly call the film fun, but it is an eminently responsible engagement with ugly American capitalism
Martin Scorsese: ‘One has to take chances. At this age, what else can I do?’
The veteran director wants Killers of the Flower Moon to show not just the trail of killings at the heart of its story but also the rich culture of the Osage Nation
Killers of the Flower Moon review: Scorsese’s new epic is long and sprawling, but the great man still has it
Cannes 2023: Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, the film rates high in the 21st-century Scorsese canon, but it asks for substantial patience
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Oscars 2022: Who should win, and who will win?
Ireland has its biggest haul of nominations since 2016, but has won few awards so far
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