Thirty years after ‘Secrets & Lies’, she has reunited with director Mike Leigh to play a woman raging at the world
Adrien Brody stars in post-Holocaust architecture epic ‘The Brutalist’; Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Presence’ is a foray into supernatural horror; Mel Gibson directs action thriller ‘Flight Risk’; Timothée Chalamet shines as Bob Dylan in ‘A Complete Unknown’; Audrey Diwan’s ‘Emmanuelle’ is a knowing remake of the 1970s hit; ‘Vermiglio’ is a meticulously filmed Italian family drama — reviews by Danny Leigh and Jonathan Romney
Mark Wahlberg undertakes a hairy journey in a film from a leading light of Donald Trump’s new Hollywood task force
Lucy Liu and Chris Sullivan plays parents in a haunted-house horror with an unusual POV
‘Wicked’ and ‘The Brutalist’ in hot pursuit with 10 while ‘The Substance’ adds element of Hollywood satire
Adrien Brody brilliantly embodies an émigré architect new to America in Brady Corbet’s toweringly ambitious epic
The filmmaker thrived on questions, but interviewing him seemed pointless
The director discusses the immigrant experience, his own origins and why America needs a movie about a sympathetic rightwinger
The visionary director peered into the darkness and light of the American soul
Andrew Scott looks uncomfortable as the MI6 man on their trail while Glenn Close has fun as Diaz’s English mother
The star reunites with Robert Zemeckis and Robin Wright but this epoch-spanning saga of a living room is less fleet-footed
Maura Delpero’s female-led film meticulously evokes a small universe of harshness and comforts
Noémie Merlant stars as a bedhopping hotel inspector in Audrey Diwan’s stilted but knowing take on the 1970s hit
The young folk singer goes it defiantly alone — and goes electric — in a Hollywood biopic refreshingly free of niceties
Arrangements and pieces composed by prisoners are performed and contextualised in a rigorously researched Sky Arts documentary
After strikes and the pandemic, studios had hoped 2025 would mark a rebound. Then Los Angeles was set ablaze
‘Babygirl’ and a new ‘Emmanuelle’ portray female desire but struggle to avoid stock fantasy
Moore’s win is seen as a sign that Hollywood no longer pigeonholes female stars. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves
The anglophile American film director discusses his ultra-gothic, jumpscare-filled reworking of the ultimate vampire movie
The many misfortunes of a young Copenhagen woman are starkly painted in Magnus von Horn’s true-crime drama
Writer/director Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin star as American cousins touring Poland uncomfortably
Pablo Larraín’s focus on the great soprano’s fading final act strands her in a Parisian ‘Sunset Boulevard’
Victor Kossakovsky directs this strikingly filmed meditation on the history and significance of stone
Corporate hierarchies are upended and climaxes withheld in an erotic thriller of ideas as well as flesh
Lack of blockbusters, pandemic aftereffects and hard economic times blamed for 2024 slump
