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    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Review
      Sundance Film Festival round-up — exquisite yearning, body horror and a hilarious hot mess

      Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Alexander Skarsgård star in two of the biggest movies in the line-up

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      Review
      Six films to watch this week

      ★★★★★ for Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical and richly insightful ‘The Fabelmans’; the toxic philanthropy exposed in ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ also rates ★★★★★; Jennifer Lopez stars in the unexpectedly funny ‘Shotgun Wedding’; Gerard Butler stars in adrenaline-pumping action movie ‘Plane’; Damien Chazelle’s ‘Babylon’ is an ambitious ode to 1920s Hollywood — reviews by Danny Leigh and Leslie Felperin

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      Shotgun Wedding — Jennifer Lopez pirate romcom is an unexpected blast

      Guests turn hostages in a consistently funny movie boosted by the presence of ‘White Lotus’ star Jennifer Coolidge

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      Plane — Gerard Butler flies out of a storm and into disaster

      A crash on a remote island in the Philippines is just the first calamity in this adrenalised action romp

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      All the Beauty and the Bloodshed — unmissable film on Nan Goldin vs the Sacklers

      Laura Poitras tells the photographer’s life story and chronicles her war on the makers of OxyContin

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      Interview
      Darren Aronofsky on his obesity drama The Whale: ‘When actors start, they all want to cry’

      The director talks frankly about making films that don’t spare the feelings of performers or audiences

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      Five stars for The Fabelmans — Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated memoir of his youth

      Michelle Williams is terrific in a richly insightful movie about the mysteries of parents and cinema

    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      Oscars 2023: Everything Everywhere All at Once maxes out with 11 nominations

      ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ and ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ to contend in nine categories each

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Interview
      Jerzy Skolimowski on his Cannes prizewinner EO: ‘Sometimes the donkey appears in my dreams’

      The veteran Polish film-maker returns to directing with the story of a donkey’s travels

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Residential
      Fantasy home: a homesteader’s life inspired by the movie, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 

      Our writer craves moments on the porch to reflect on the forging of a new life — without the anxiety or dread of an outlaw

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Review
      Bank of Dave — brash, feelgood affair

      An assertively genial comedy based on the true story of minibus dealership owner Dave Fishwick

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      Holy Spider — portrait of state-sanctioned misogyny

      Director Ali Abbasi’s disquieting film is a dark Iranian social history about a ‘serial killer society’

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      Babylon — Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie star in ambitious ode to Hollywood

      Damien Chazelle’s fourth film is an attention-grabbing hymn to silent movie history

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Review
      Dreaming Walls — ethereal film documents New York’s fabled Chelsea Hotel

      The movie is bound up with the hardy, long-term occupants still in situ at the legendary residence

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Sundance Film Festival returns in physical form pregnant with possibilities

      Early titles include a beguiling Moroccan mystery and the story of a cult New York video store

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Interview
      Laura Poitras on Nan Goldin and their film taking on the opioid crisis

      The director discusses the fight to expose the Sackler family’s ‘artwashing’ of a fortune built on addictive drugs

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      Stephen Bush
      Forget digital resurrection: let the dead stay dead

      Our obsession with recreating people on screen and in reality is doomed to failure

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      Interview
      Inside the Chelsea Hotel: ‘It has always been a mirror of what is happening outside’

      The makers of a new documentary on the hotel that was once an artists’ mecca that is now feeling the winds of change

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      Interview
      Screenwriter Tony Kushner on getting inside Steven Spielberg’s head with The Fabelmans

      The ‘inveterate Freudian’ discusses his dual role as the director’s collaborator and unofficial therapist, and why film-making is ‘in a genuine crisis’

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      Review
      Tár film review — Cate Blanchett is wildly magnetic in a film of rare greatness

      Todd Field’s dread-filled film about a conductor’s experience of cancel culture meets the zeitgeist head on

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      Review
      Enys Men — spooky art film is all show and no tell

      Mary Woodvine plays the unnamed protagonist in Mark Jenkin’s eerie second film

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      Review
      The Estate — black comedy bungles promising premise

      Dean Craig’s inheritance quest has a fine collection of comic actors struggling with poor material

    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      Interview
      The Quiet Girl making a noise at film festivals

      Director Colm Bairéad has turned his ‘burning desire’ to make this Irish-language story of an introspective child into an Oscar contender

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      Empire of Light — Olivia Colman ushers in melancholy ode to cinema

      Micheal Ward and Colin Firth co-star in Sam Mendes’s well-acted drama set in a faded English seaside town

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      Residential
      Fantasy home: a Knightsbridge flat inspired by the atypical student pad in the movie, The Souvenir

      Our writer covets the salubrious sanctuary of the film’s protagonist, who, like her, is a young woman trying to make it in the big city

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