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    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      InterviewFilm
      Director Hlynur Pálmason on battling the elements for Godland: ‘Making a film threatens you’

      The Icelander overcame blizzards, volcanoes and a dead horse to tell the story of an itinerant — and ‘irritating’ — Danish priest

    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      Zach Braff sprinkles grief with cuteness in A Good Person

      Starring Florence Pugh, the director’s tale of loss and opioid addiction is candyfloss-sweet

    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      The Beasts film review — brilliantly written, superbly acted

      The story of a bitter feud in rural Galicia is told with great skill by director Rodrigo Sorogoyen

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      Allelujah — starry NHS hospital drama is less than scalpel-sharp

      Richard Eyre’s film of Alan Bennett’s play falters despite the presence of Judi Dench, Jennifer Saunders and Derek Jacobi

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      Boston Strangler — Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon brighten gloomy crime drama

      Matt Ruskin’s movie spotlights the journalists who did crucial investigative work on the 1960s murders

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      The Oscars 2023: all you need to know
      The end of the ‘Oscars movie’

      With Best Picture nominees ranging from the cheesy to the arty to the wildly wacky, this year is a watershed. Plus: vote on your favourites

    • Saturday, 4 March, 2023
      InterviewFilm
      Andy Serkis on the new ‘Luther’ film, more Tolkien and almost becoming a City trader

      The actor discusses playing a killer opposite Idris Elba and a possible return to Middle-earth: ‘If Peter Jackson’s in, I’m saying yes’

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      The Strays — Get Out comes to Suffolk in jagged horror debut

      Moments of social satire land well in a movie set in the world of private-school runs and garden party fundraisers

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      Creed III — Rocky spin-off series makes improbable comeback to glory

      Michael B Jordan directs and stars in superior sequel that pits Adonis Creed against a childhood friend who went astray

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      Film
      From triathlons to the Oscars — Lesley Paterson’s gruelling journey

      The screenwriter’s fight to get ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ made into a film is an epic tale in itself

    • Saturday, 25 February, 2023
      Film
      Glasgow Film Festival promises Paul Mescal’s latest and a trauma-haunted debut

      A rich line-up includes copious Scottish talent alongside offerings from France and Spain

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      Cocaine Bear — a transcendent power chord of dumbness

      Truth-based tale of an animal on a drug-fuelled rampage is gonzo-horror fun until the buzz wears off

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      Joyland — trans love story from Pakistan is an act of graceful defiance

      Saim Sadiq’s remarkable debut is a vivid study of repression that has been condemned in his homeland

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      What’s Love Got to Do with It? — cross-cultural romcom breaks no boundaries

      Screenwriter Jemima Khan draws on lived experience for a surface-skimming film starring Lily James and Shazad Latif

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      Broker film review — baby-trafficking tale finds room for the kind-hearted

      Japanese maestro Hirokazu Kore-eda lends his delicate touch to a genre-clashing movie about abandoned newborns

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      InterviewFilm
      Director Hirokazu Kore-eda on Broker, stolen babies — and the success of Korean films

      The film-maker talks about the importance of a toxic-free environment on set and representing people as they truly are

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania — Paul Rudd returns in good-natured B-movie sequel

      The likeable actor stars alongside Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Douglas and Kathryn Newton in a multiverse extravaganza

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      The Son — a mysteriously appalling new film from Florian Zeller

      The writer-director made the masterpiece ‘The Father’, which only makes his new film harder to watch

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      Nothing Lasts Forever — funny and caustic profile of a panicked industry

      From Manhattan to Botswana, Jason Kohn’s documentary probes how synthetics are threatening the trade

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      Women Talking — rage and reason in the face of ungodly acts

      Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley and Claire Foy star as Mennonite women told to forgive the men who raped them

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      The Oscars 2023: all you need to know
      Director Guillermo del Toro: ‘When dialogue is impossible, parable becomes more urgent’

      The Mexican film-maker on his deeply personal ‘Pinocchio’, which took 20 years to make and is now Oscar-nominated

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      Knock at the Cabin — compelling idea buried in shoddiness

      The latest film from the director of ‘The Sixth Sense’ is helped by its source material

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      EO — vivid meditation on power through the eyes of a donkey

      Director Jerzy Skolimowski dances mischievously with the unknowability of animals and the brutality of humans

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      The Whale — Brendan Fraser holds together a dislikeable drama

      Darren Aronofsky brings cold and glib direction to Samuel D Hunter’s adaptation of his own stage play

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      Saint Omer — courtroom drama without the gavel-banging clichés

      Alice Diop’s truth-based film about a woman who murdered her baby daughter is quietly groundbreaking

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