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Four new films to see this week: Toy Story 5, Nino, Familiar Touch and Lesbian Space Princess
Tom Hanks, Joan Cusack, Théodore Pellerin and Kathleen Chalfant feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of June 19th, 2026
Toy Story 5 review: Pixar’s founding franchise is getting squeaky around its middle-aged joints
Good gags are plentiful but the sense of a finger wagging throughout can’t help but temper the fun
The Movie Quiz: Which Toy Story do we reach next week?
Plus: What is, at time of quizzing, the highest grossing film of 2026?
Steven Spielberg’s best films, in reverse order
As Disclosure Day arrives in cinemas, we rate each of the director’s 34 movies so far
Moonstruck: A geologist’s playground, an elite retreat or a staging post to a new frontier?
From megalithic art to science fiction, Earth’s sole natural satellite has compelled us, scared us and been the site of our fantasies
The Movie Quiz: Who has not been played by Tom Hanks?
Plus: Who is about to follow in the footsteps of Christopher Lee, Peter Boyle and Robert De Niro?
Séamas O’Reilly: Apple TV+ has Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks and God, but is anybody watching?
Foundation is genre storytelling at its richest, while Murderbot is smart-as-a-tack pulp sci-fi
Benicio Del Toro: ‘I do movies that are more than just shooting and killing’
Benicio Del Toro and Michael Cera speak about their roles in Wes Anderson's latest film
The Phoenician Scheme review: Beautiful to look at, but like a museum vase – pretty, pristine and hollow
Wes Anderson’s film, starring Benicio Del Toro and Mia Threapleton, makes little advance on the director’s recent airless productions
Cannes 2025: Will Paul Mescal scoop an award, how will Bono’s film go down, and 10 other questions
The Cannes film festival is back at the centre of the movie world thanks to recent Oscars success
Cannes film festival 2025: Bono, Paul Mescal and Element Pictures to fly flag for Ireland
Documentary based on U2 frontman’s memoir will premiere in Cannes, while Paul Mescal will attend for The History of Sound
Amy Adams: ‘There is so much women normalise in relation to pain and sacrifice’
In Nightbitch, Marielle Heller’s new film, the star plays a woman crushed by childrearing. It’s not the only pressure women are under, she says
How coastal erosion is changing beach made famous in Saving Private Ryan
Curracloe is one of many beaches in the southeast being altered dramatically by climate change
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