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  • Studio portrait of Michele Austin

    Q&A
    Actor Michele Austin: ‘Mike Leigh has a wicked sense of humour’

    The co-star of Leigh’s latest film, Hard Truths, on ​h​er bond with the director, portraying mental health issues and ​why she’s loving the awards circuit
  • Saleh Bakri and Cherien Dabis appear in All That's Left of You by Cherien Dabis, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

    Sundance 2025
    All That’s Left of You review – deeply moving epic of Palestinian intergenerational trauma

  • ‘I don’t like seeing anything of myself in my performances’: Felicity Jones.

    Felicity Jones
    Felicity Jones: ‘I try not to look in the mirror too much’

  • Film still: Sky Force (2025) Bollywood film.

    Review
    Sky Force – Akshay Kumar stands tall in threadbare air-war flagwaver

  • Movie still of woman lying on beach

    Sundance 2025
    If I Had Legs I’d Kick You review – Rose Byrne is a knockout in anxious dark comedy

  • John Magaro, Molly Belle Wright, and Wyatt Solis appear in Omaha by Cole Webley, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival

    Sundance 2025
    Omaha review – John Magaro leads lean but affecting family drama

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News

  • A still from 2000 Meters to Andriivka.

    ‘Everything is trying to kill you’: harrowing Ukraine film gets standing ovation at Sundance

  • a man and a woman in fantastical costumes

    Nosferatu’s Robert Eggers to direct sequel to 1986’s Labyrinth

  • FILE - Oscar statuettes appear backstage at the Oscars in Los Angeles on Feb. 26, 2017. Nominations for the 2024 Oscars will be announced on Tuesday, Jan. 23. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File)

    Oscars nominations 2025: the full list

  • Ready to roll … Martin Scorsese with Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of Killers of the Flower Moon.

    Long-delayed DiCaprio/Scorsese serial killer film Devil in the White City back on track

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Reviews

  • Thrilling directness … Alessandro Nivola and Adrien Brody in The Brutalist.

    The Brutalist – epic Adrien Brody postwar architectural drama stuns and electrifies

  • Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen in Nosferatu.

    Nosferatu – Robert Eggers’s respectful homage to a vampire horror classic

    The second remake of FW Murnau’s unofficial Dracula adaptation is handsomely shot and stylised, with a forbiddingly gruesome monster, but walks the line between self-conscious and scary
  • Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson in Babygirl.

    Babygirl – Nicole Kidman overwhelmed by lust as CEO having torrid and toxic affair

    Halina Reijn’s film about a company executive’s carnal adventure with her intern is expertly done but suspect at its core, despite Kidman’s bold performance

  • A Complete Unknown – Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan is an electric revelation

  • Hard Truths – a Mike Leigh classic of day-to-day disillusionment and courage

  • The Fire Inside – blazing boxing drama packs a serious punch

  • Mufasa: The Lion King – storytelling takes pride of place in punchy origin tale

  • Sonic the Hedgehog 3 – Jim Carrey supplies laughs and energy for hedgehog threequel

  • Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead novel becomes intensely moving story of a racist reform school

  • September 5 – taut media procedural revisits Munich Olympics

  • Kraven the Hunter – Russell Crowe busts up laborious superhero yarn

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Video & audio

  • Portrait of Andrew Lloyd with visual effect

    The man who caught his catfish; actor Kaya Scodelario on Skins, scares and sex scenes; and Philippa Perry on coping with the climate crisis – podcast

  • Photograph: Emily Badescu/The Guardian

    S8, Ep6: Richard E Grant, actor

    Joining Grace this week on Comfort Eating is actor Richard E Grant
  • Still of Al Pacino holding a gun in a black and white still from The Guardian

    Al Pacino tells the inside story of The Godfather, and Marina Hyde on Keir Starmer, the unforced error machine – podcast

    It’s hard to think of anyone who has squandered so much electoral capital, so quickly, for so little: Marina Hyde reflects on Keir Starmer’s first 100 days; and when Al Pacino bagged the lead role in The Godfather, he couldn’t believe his luck: in an exclusive extract from his new book, he recalls the making of the film that changed his life…
  • Mohamed al Fayed with Michael Cole leaving the High Court, London, following a preliminary hearing for the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed

    Marina Hyde on Al Fayed and Diddy’s enablers, the hidden life of Elizabeth Taylor, and Philippa Perry on embracing anger – podcast

  • James Earl Jones starred in a number of films, gave voice to legendary characters and won two Tony awards in a career that spanned more than six decades

    2:20

    A look back at the formidable career of James Earl Jones – video obituary

  • Alain Delon was an icon of 20th century cinema who lent his beautifully chiselled features to parts that included cops, hitmen and romantic leads, working for some of France’s greatest directors

    1:58

    Alain Delon: a look back at the actor's prolific career – video

  • Ben McKenzie being interviewed on stage

    The OC star Ben McKenzie on how crypto took over Hollywood – podcast

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Opinion

  • Joan Plowright in Tea With Mussolini.

    ‘A nice little cameo that Judi Dench hasn’t got her paws on’: Joan Plowright’s screen career blossomed with age

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Miffed? … Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone.

    You’re really spoiling us: Trump miscasts Gibson, Stallone and Voight by making them mere ambassadors

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Metaphysical murder … Sheryl Lee and Kyle Maclachlan in 1992’s Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me.

    David Lynch: the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstream

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Ralph Fiennes stars as Cardinal Lawrence in director Edward Berger's CONCLAVE, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features. © 2024 All Rights Reserved.

    Baftas 2025: Conclave leads a pack of underdog tales – and Kneecap may already have won

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Ignore all the fresh horrors of reality … two School of Rock co-stars just got married!

    Stuart Heritage

  • More fizzle than pop: the limits of Nicole Kidman’s erotic drama Babygirl

    Adrian Horton

  • The Brutalist is anointed – but key hopefuls locked out at curveball Golden Globes

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Ridley Scott is a genius film-maker who can do anything – even start a political crisis in Malta

    Stuart Heritage

  • Can’t-do attitude: why the real horror of Nightbitch is weaponised incompetence

    Chloe Laws

  • Golden Globes 2025: a lively list guaranteed to get under President-elect Trump’s skin

    Peter Bradshaw

  • ‘A dancer dances, even with replaced hips and scoliosis’: only one actor can play Liza Minnelli

    Stuart Heritage

  • Wicked’s green skin trigger warning may feel silly – but not as silly as those crying woke

    Stuart Heritage
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Interviews

  • Asa Butterfield

    ‘I was 25 and done with playing a teenager’: Asa Butterfield on Sex Education, stage fright and his ‘terrifying’ one-man play

  • Mohammad Rasoulof.

    Iranian Oscar nominee Mohammad Rasoulof: ‘After my arrest, I told myself: don’t hold back’

    His new film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, is up for an Academy award – but the film-maker had to direct it from his sofa. Even under sentence of arrest and flogging, he won’t be silenced, he says
  • Ruslan crouching down and hugging a dog

    ‘I was careful not to exploit the tears or the drama’: the director of Oscar-tipped Once Upon a Time in Ukraine on her powerful documentary

    As Donald Trump says he wants a speedy end to the war, Betsy West wonders what form that will take, as her film offers a platform to the children caught up in the conflict
  • Brooke Shields shot for OM in NY

    ‘Stuff happens and it sucks’: Brooke Shields on abuse, ageing and telling her own story

  • ‘I accidentally got into acting – I’m still not sure how’ … Billy Bob Thornton.

    Billy Bob Thornton: ‘I didn’t want Johnny Cash to catch me looking in his fridge in my underpants’

  • Adrien Brody

    ‘People often don’t feel treated as equals’: Adrien Brody on complexity, comebacks and The Brutalist

  • ‘My son does not want to fight’ … Krichman.

    ‘I was waking up five times a night’: how film-maker Mikhail Krichman escaped from Russia

Regulars

  • Adrien Brody as fictional architect László Tóth in The Brutalist

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    The Brutalist review – Brady Corbet’s audacious architecture drama is a monumental achievement

  • Paul Mescal in a scene from "Gladiator II.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Gladiator II and the best sword-and-sandal movies

  • Ryan Gosling.

    Week in geek
    Ryan Gosling for Star Wars? It may be the end of the franchise as we know it

    Ben Child
  • Clockwise from top left: Mikey Madison in Anora (2024); Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, James Ransone and Mya Taylor in Tangerine (2015); Brooklynn Prince and Bria Vinaite in The Florida Project (2017); Simon Rex in Red Rocket (2021).

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… director Sean Baker, who thrillingly puts the marginalised centre stage

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You may have missed

  • David Lynch.

    ‘He made me feel I didn’t need to fit in’: readers’ tributes to David Lynch – and their most Lynchian photograph

  • It ain’t me babe … Timothée Chalamet as Dylan in A Complete Unknown.

    ‘The hair, the voice, the casual cruelty – they nailed it!’ Bob Dylan experts rate A Complete Unknown

    Are the guitars right? Is Joan Baez sidelined? Who is this Sylvie Russo? And why is it an American shouting ‘Judas’? A Dylan tribute singer, two biographers, a superfan and more weigh in
  • ‘He didn’t analyse, he felt’ … Lynch filming Wild at Heart.

    ‘David Lynch altered our brains’: fellow directors, friends and fans remember a titan of cinema

    His unique, twisted visions shocked and seduced generations of filmgoers. Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Coralie Fargeat and more pay tribute
  • A crew of adventurers look into the wild

    Vomiting! Fainting! Heart attacks! How dangerous can it be to watch a movie?

  • FILE - Filmmaker David Lynch poses at his Los Angeles home March 14, 2002. (AP Photo/Chris Weeks, File)

    ‘A one-way trip to heaven’: cigarettes were David Lynch’s magic wand – and his undoing

  • Timothée Chalamet on a Lime bike at the premiere of A Complete Unknown at London’s BFI Southbank.

    A twist of Lime: Timothée Chalamet rode a rental bike on to the red carpet. But how long had he been in the saddle?

  • Saturday Night stars Ella Hunt, Cory Michael Smith, Gabriel LaBelle, Dylan O’Brien, Rachel Sennott and Lamorne Morris.

    ‘It’s the moment when genius comes into the universe’: the film recreating SNL’s chaotic first night

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