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Movies

  • Clandestina

    Clandestina review – artists fighting fascists in Portugual in the 1950s – and the present day

    The words of artist-activist Margarida Tengarrinha ground Maria Mire’s feature debut, which evokes a lineage of political dissent through ambiguous visual sequences
  • PURPLE NOON (aka Plein Soleil) 1959 Paris Film/Paritalia production with Alain Delon<br>E7X3BK PURPLE NOON (aka Plein Soleil) 1959 Paris Film/Paritalia production with Alain Delon

    Mesmeric and beautiful, Alain Delon was one of cinema’s most mysterious stars

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Alain Delon on the set of Le Samourai

    Alain Delon: a life in pictures

  • women in ballgowns stand on stage with silhouettes of disney princesses above them

    Honey, I lost the kids: is generation Z done with Disney?

  • ‘I’m deeply neurotic and think it’s going to end tomorrow’: Morfydd Clark in dress by Erdem.

    ‘I seem to have this uncanny vibe about me’: actor Morfydd Clark on her eerie roles

  • Colman Domingo in Sing Sing.

    Edinburgh film festival 2024
    Sing Sing review – Colman Domingo is larger than life in big-hearted prison musical

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Reviews

  • Zhu Yilong in Only the River Flows.

    Only the River Flows review – accomplished Chinese noir is intriguing and ingenious thriller

  • The Alien attacking a woman in the dark

    Alien: Romulus review – grungy, back-to-basics instalment goes over same old ground

  • A clip from the film Hollywoodgate

    Hollywoodgate review – a fascinating insight into the Taliban’s insular world

  • Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg in The Union.

    The Union review – Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg heat up Netflix action flick

  • Klitschko: More Than a Fight review – Kyiv’s mayor confronts Zelenskiy in eye-opening Ukraine war film

  • Black Dog review – fine lead performances power British road movie on a satisfying path

  • Lone Star review – John Sayles’s powerful crime drama is an extraordinary relic of 90s film-making

  • Jackpot! review - Awkwafina and John Cena strapped into stunt-heavy action comedy

  • Coraline review – delightfully creepy coming-of-age fantasy offers more than just scares

  • The Hypnosis review – watch-through-your-hands squirmfest as woman loses inhibitions

  • Swan Song review – ‘punk rock’ ballet film goes behind-the-scenes to get show afloat

  • A Life Like Any Other review – wonderfully moving look back at a mother’s resilience

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News

  • On the set of Le Samourai<br>French actor Alain Delon on the set of Le Samourai, written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. (Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

    French film star Alain Delon dies aged 88

  • A man holds flowers as he leaves the entrance of Alain Delon’s property in Douchy

    Alain Delon: how family feud brought Shakespearean tragedy to final years

  • Actor Gena Rowlands at the Academy Awards in 2016

    Gena Rowlands, star of A Woman Under the Influence and Gloria, dies at 94

  • Part of last year’s offering in Edinburgh.

    ‘Rebuilt from scratch’: how Edinburgh international film festival got back on its feet

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What to watch

  • Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun.

    Edinburgh film festival 2024: 12 of the best movies on show

  • 2007, ENCHANTED<br>AMY ADAMS Character(s): Giselle Film 'ENCHANTED' (2007) Directed By KEVIN LIMA 21 November 2007 SSP60647 Allstar/DISNEY **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of DISNEY and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To DISNEY is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Aliens, artists and Abscam: Amy Adams’ 20 best performances – ranked!

    The six times Oscar-nominated actor, who turns 50 this month, stars in comedy horror Nightbitch releasing in December. We look back at some of her best roles
  • 1985, COMMANDO<br>ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Character(s): John Matrix Film 'COMMANDO' (1985) Directed By MARK L. LESTER 04 October 1985 SSZ101431 Allstar/20THCENTURY FOX **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of 20THCENTURY FOX and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To 20THCENTURY FOX is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Brawn, bazookas and killer bots: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s finest films – ranked!

    In anticipation of his 77th birthday, we appraise the monolithically musclebound Austrian’s action-packed oeuvre
  • Composite of screen shots from summer films

    From steamy summertime romances to spring-break chaos: the 20 best films about holidays

  • three side by side film stills

    From Twister to Titanic: writers on their favourite disaster movies

  • woman wearing white shirt and wings kisses man in knight's armor

    Shakespeare goes pop: the best of the Bard’s work updated on screen

  • 1959, NORTH BY NORTHWEST<br>EVA MARIE SAINT &amp; CARY GRANT Character(s): Eve Kendall &amp; Film 'NORTH BY NORTHWEST' (1959) Directed By ALFRED HITCHCOCK 17 July 1959 CT2771 Allstar/MGM (USA 1959) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of MGM and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To MGM is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Happy 100th birthday, Eva Marie Saint! Her best films – ranked

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Opinion

  • Superbly intelligent … Gena Rowlands in Opening Night.

    Gena Rowlands: the fiercest, most incandescent star of US indie cinema

  • This image released by Focus Features shows Izaac Wang in a scene from "DÌDI." (Focus Features via AP)

    Dìdi is a rare thing: a genuinely great film about the internet

    Adrian Horton
  • film still of a man and a woman standing in a living room

    ‘Hold on to your seats’: how much will AI affect the art of film-making?

  • Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in Deadpool & Wolverine.

    Deadpool’s obnoxious gay panic humour is a tiresome schoolyard taunt

    Guy Lodge

  • Difficult, fearsome, aggressive: the Faye Dunaway documentary is unusually frank

    Pamela Hutchinson

  • Post your questions for Malcolm McDowell

  • Is Tyler Perry the most frustrating man in Hollywood?

  • Shelley Duvall was a sublime and subversive screen presence

    Peter Bradshaw

  • ‘I don’t think I have that in me’: what was Lena Dunham’s abandoned Polly Pocket movie actually going to involve?

    Stuart Heritage

  • We’re all feeling sequel fatigue – but Hollywood’s giving us Shrek 5

    Sian Cain

  • Donald Sutherland was an irreplaceable aristocrat of cinema

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Unoriginal sins: why does Russell Crowe keep making exorcism movies?

    Stuart Heritage
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Interviews

  • Rakie Ayola

    Actor Rakie Ayola: ‘Amazing things have happened this side of 40’

  • Rory Kinnear.

    Rory Kinnear: ‘I congratulate everyone who is on the brink of baldness’

    He was sworn to secrecy on Bond and is about to take on a fan-favourite character in The Rings of Power. But, for all the blockbuster roles, the British actor is a very sensible star
  • In this still from M: Son of the Century, the Fez El Duce, feature the fascist eagle, is put on the head of Benito Mussolini (plated by the actor Luca Marinelli).

    ‘I want the audience to be seduced’: Joe Wright on his Mussolini biopic

    Atonement director hopes viewers get swept along by M: Son of the Century as ‘to demonise these characters absolves us of moral responsibility’
  • Elliot Page and Dominic Savage on the set of Close to You.

    ‘I get misgendered all the time’: Elliot Page on his return to acting on the big screen

  • Shah Rukh Khan, in a white top and dark glass, arms held wide, poses for the crowd on his balcony at his home in Mumbai last year.

    ‘My dream was to have a six-pack and a gun’: Shah Rukh Khan on being ‘king’ of Bollywood

  • ‘Anti-genre narrative’ … Zhu Yilong as Ma Zhe in Only the River Flows.

    ‘You have to eliminate a stereotype’: director Wei Shujun on Chinese noir Only the River Flows

  • Teri Hatcher.

    Teri Hatcher: ‘Would I beat you at pool? It depends on how much we are drinking’

Regulars

  • Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson in Alien: Romulus.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Alien: Romulus review – thrillingly gruesome new instalment gets a shot of young blood

  • Will Smith in I Am Legend, WALL·E. and Anya Taylor-Joy in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and the best post-apocalyptic films

  • Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool & Wolverine.

    Week in geek
    Is this really the end of the line for Deadpool? Disney will never turn off the money tap

    Ben Child
  • a composite of four images from My Neighbour Totoro; Spirited Away; Mononoke and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… director Hayao Miyazaki, who speaks to the child in all of us

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You may have missed

  • Klitschko brothers

    ‘Then Zelenskiy called for him to go’: Kevin Macdonald on how his film about Kyiv’s ex-boxer mayor suddenly heated up

  • A still from Postman Pat: The Movie.

    ‘Sobbing in the aisles’: writers on their most memorable parent-kid film experiences

    Whether a terrifying Postman Pat, a mortifying sex scene, or a brush with button-phobia, our writers report on the family viewing they will never forget
  • Malcolm McDowell in Caligula, 1979.

    ‘There is an incredible hunger for it’: why classic films are making a comeback in cinemas

    From Caligula to Forrest Gump and My Neighbour Totoro, rereleases are hitting the big screen once again – and are proving lucrative at the box office
  • Grey Bees (2024) by Dmytro Moiseiev.

    Missile attacks and masterpieces: Mike Figgis on the bravery of a film festival under fire in Ukraine

  • A man surfing a barrel wave

    Crystal Voyager: the ultimate surfing film with a DIY spirit – and a Pink Floyd soundtrack

  • Deadpool inside a graphical egg design, on a red background

    Un oeuf is enough: have we had our fill of movie Easter eggs?

  • Sasquatch Sunset.

    The silence is deafening: why this year’s environmental films are nonverbal

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Film genres

  • John Cena and Awkwafina in Jackpot! him aiming a pistol towards a muscly arm reaching in through a strong room door, awkwafina trying to push the door closed

    Action
    Jackpot! review – feeble Paul Feig action comedy maxes out on the mayhem

  • Other Mother (left, Teri Hatcher) and Coraline (Dakota Fanning) in Henry Selick's Coraline.

    Animation
    Coraline review – delightfully creepy coming-of-age fantasy offers more than just scares

  • Yilong Zhu in Only the River Flows.

    Crime
    Only the River Flows review – stylishly enigmatic Chinese crime drama

  • Clandestina

    Drama
    Clandestina review – artists fighting fascists in Portugual in the 1950s – and the present day

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