Four new films to see this week: Highest 2 Lowest, The Cut, Sanatorium and Honey Don’t!
Denzel Washington, Orlando Bloom, Caitríona Balfe and Margaret Qualley feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 5th, 2025
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Highest 2 Lowest review: Spike Lee’s film about an old-school music mogul is never boring but lacks cohesion
Getting on board with the later stages of this film requires an almighty leap of faith
Cannes: 15 of the most unforgettable looks, from Pedro Pascal to Rihanna
Actors, musicians and models mostly adhered to the French film festival’s new ‘no nudity’ rule on the red carpet
Cannes 2025: Julian Assange makes for unlikely new star, walkouts at warts-and-all Shia LaBeouf film - and Brigitte Bardot is back
Cannes Diary: Plus reviews of Alpha, Highest 2 Lowest and Pillion
The Guide: The Ferryman, Jimmy Carr and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
January 25th–31st: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Mufasa director Barry Jenkins: I’ll say, ‘I was at the Oscars when they read out the wrong name.’ They’ll say, ‘Oh, you’re that guy!’
The film-maker’s big moment was almost eclipsed when La La Land, not Moonlight, was announced as best picture. Now his Lion King prequel is about to occupy Christmas
Cannes 2022: God’s Creatures starring Paul Mescal to premiere at upcoming festival
‘Special screening’ planned for offbeat horror film starring Kerry woman Jessie Buckley
Harry Wootliff: ‘That’s my genre – smart, strong women making bad choices’
The British film-maker on her new drama True Things and being true to herself
Angela Bassett on success, salaries and staying power: ‘I gotta find a new queen to play’
The Tina Turner actor on fairness in pay, film-making and why acting is still her first love
Confusion at Cannes as Spike Lee reveals Palme d’Or winner too soon
French director Julia Ducournau’s serial killer odyssey Titane wins top honour
Netflix: 10 of the best new shows to watch in May
Ewan McGregor as Halston and the return of Special are among the month’s highlights
He Got Game: ‘I pray that you understand why I pushed you so hard’
You need dark forces behind you to make it as a basketball star – in this case an obsessive dad
Judas and the Black Messiah: Daniel Kaluuya is transcendent in this thrilling picture
The story of the killing of a young Black Panther is flawed but fiercely muscular
Golden Globes 2021: Who should win, who will win and are any of them Irish?
Wolfwalkers, Brendan Gleeson and Normal People could win in the controversy-hit awards
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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