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  • Jacques Audiard (left) and Karla Sofía Gascón at Cannes

    The rise and fall of Emilia Pérez: how did it all go so wrong for the Oscar-nominated film and its star?

    Less than two weeks ago, the movie was flying high, with 13 Academy Award nods. Then came a social media scandal and a serious backlash
  • Jesse Eisenberg played Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network

    Jesse Eisenberg no longer wants to be ‘associated’ with Mark Zuckerberg

  • a man holding a cigarette

    David Lynch’s death shocks smokers into quitting: ‘It’s just not good for us’

  • Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci, right, in a scene from Conclave.

    Tomato and basilica: in Conclave, Stanley Tucci plays Stanley Tucci – and I couldn’t be happier

  • Silliness and scandal … Shanghai Blues.

    Shanghai Blues review – delirious screwball comedy from Hong Kong’s Spielberg

  • Dog Man serves Li’l Petey some dinner

    Dog Man review – goofy gags galore as the Franken-pooch takes on a fiendish feline

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News

  • Blanchett at the Rotterdam film festival, 1 Feb 2025

    Cate Blanchett: lack of change in Hollywood after #MeToo ‘quite distressing’

  • Nicolas Cage attends the Saturn awards in Los Angeles.

    ‘Robots cannot reflect the human condition’: Nicolas Cage speaks out against AI

  • Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce in The Brutalist.

    The Brutalist wins best film at London Critics’ Circle awards

  • person wearing black holds microphone and smiles

    Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón faces backlash over offensive tweets

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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

  • Adrien Brody, Isaach De Bankol and Guy Pearce in The Brutalist.

    Backlash builds: why the architecture world hates The Brutalist

  • Bridget Jones, played by Renée Zellweger, rests her head on the shoulder of one of her new love interests, Roxster, Leo Woodall, in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.

    Is it time to stop bashing Bridget Jones? Hapless everywoman has evolved – and so have we

    Barbara Ellen
  • a man touches a woman's cheek

    From Godard to Coppola, Van Sant to Anger, Marianne Faithfull was a dazzling magnet for film-makers

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Cult London film venue Prince Charles cinema in London is under threat of closure.

    Share your memories and pictures of the Prince Charles Cinema

  • No phone, no watch, no problem: should we all be more like Christopher Walken?

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

    Peter Bradshaw

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

    Peter Bradshaw

  • David Lynch: the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstream

    Peter Bradshaw

  • 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
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Interviews

  • Sheila Hancock shot for OM for her 92nd birthday

    ‘You name it, I did it’: Sheila Hancock on comedy, age and anxiety

  • Hayley Atwell

    Hayley Atwell on theatre, Tom Cruise and the tabloids: ‘I’ve reached the point where I’m OK if I’m not liked’

    From shooting guns in Mission: Impossible films to appearing in a new West End production of Shakespeare, the actor has proved there’s nothing she can’t do. But, she says, there are now a few things she won’t
  • Press shot of the three actors standing together.

    Big knickers, bad decisions and old bats: Renée Zellweger on the return of Bridget Jones

    Nearly 25 years after the first film, the actor, her co-stars and the writer Helen Fielding discuss the ultimate singleton, love and loss – and the final resting place for Bridget’s massive knickers
  • Claes Bang smiling and wearing a green corduroy suit

    Claes Bang: ‘I think I have more of a sense of humour in English than I do in Danish’

  • Cynthia Erivo, photographed by Ejatu Shaw for The Guardian in London, January 2025 Stylist: Jason Bolden Stylist's assistant: John Mumblo Make-up: Joanna Simkin

    Cynthia Erivo on fame, fear and not fitting in: ‘I’ve never talked about how tough my journey has been’

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

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

  • Asa Butterfield

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

Regulars

  • Michele Austin, left, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hard Truths.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Hard Truths review – Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s blistering performance is the angry heart of Mike Leigh’s drama

  • Paul Mescal in a scene from "Gladiator II.

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

  • Living legend … Harrison Ford promoting Captain America: Brave New World.

    Week in geek
    Grumpy Harrison Ford, a mystery asterisk and AI gone wild: everything from Disney’s new slate presentation

  • David Lynch

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… David Lynch, a one-off visionary who was also incredibly funny

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You may have missed

  • Director Martin Scorsese, centre, at a Cannes photocall for Gangs of New York with Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz.

    ‘My most sincere apologies to all the people who may have been offended’: when Oscar campaigns implode

  • ‘You could almost break my hair off’ … Jim Carrey, left, and Jeff Daniels in the 1994 comedy classic.

    ‘Jim Carrey told me to “go all the way” with the laxative toilet scene’: Jeff Daniels on Dumb and Dumber

    ‘I was sitting next to my parents at a preview. When we got to the toilet scene, my father put his head in his hands and said, “No, Jeffrey …”’
  • Press shot of the three actors standing together.

    Big knickers, bad decisions and old bats: Renée Zellweger on the return of Bridget Jones

    Nearly 25 years after the first film, the actor, her co-stars and the writer Helen Fielding discuss the ultimate singleton, love and loss – and the final resting place for Bridget’s massive knickers
  • ‘I was thinner than that guy’ … Chalamet at the Italy premiere of A Complete Unknown.

    Timothée Chalamet says he put on 20lb to play Bob Dylan. Can that tip the scales at the Oscars?

  • David Lynch.

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

  • David Lynch

    Mark Kermode on… David Lynch, a one-off visionary who was also incredibly funny

  • 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

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