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  • Ashley Greene in It Feeds.

    It Feeds review – spooky supernatural chiller that loads up on tasty jump-scares

  • a group of young people hang their windows outside of a car

    ‘Pure sugar-rush mayhem’: why I Wanna Hold Your Hand is my feelgood movie

  • A still from The Hamlet Syndrome

    The Hamlet Syndrome review – soldiers turn to Shakespeare as Ukrainians deal with the war

  • Michael Maloney as Sebastian in Ride the Snake

    Ride the Snake review – low-budget home-invasion horror offers transgressive free-for-all

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Reviews

  • Celeste Dalla Porta in the title role.

    Parthenope review – Paolo Sorrentino contrives a facile, bikini-clad self-parody

  • THUNDERBOLTS*<br>(L-R) Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), and Red Guardian/Alexei Shostakov (David Harbour) in Marvel Studios' THUNDERBOLTS*. Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. © 2024 MARVEL.

    Thunderbolts* review – Florence Pugh is saving grace of Marvel’s hit-and-miss mess

  • Where Dragons Live still.

    Where Dragons Live review – reflections on family life in an extraordinary setting

  • Slade in Flame.

    Slade in Flame review – Midlands glam rockers offer A Hard Day’s Night meets Get Carter

  • Boonie Bears: Future Reborn review – kiddie Chinese eco-fable is like Mad Max on mushrooms

  • Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade review – reverential reminiscence takes its time

  • Another Simple Favor review – supremely silly sequel serves more absurd twists

  • The Life of Sean DeLear review – loving film about queer black punk rocker, and secret legend

  • Bury Us in a Lone Desert review – moving and macabre odd-couple road trip

  • The Friend review – Naomi Watts befriends great dane in sweet, slight drama

  • April review – Dea Kulumbegashvili comes into her own with haunting abortion drama

  • Wind, Tide & Oar review – a love letter to the good old fashioned art of sailing

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News

  • Adam Pearson.

    A Different Man’s Adam Pearson to star in new film of The Elephant Man

  • Robert De Niro and his daughter Airyn.

    Robert De Niro supports daughter Airyn as she comes out as trans: ‘I don’t know what the big deal is’

  • Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis in Freakier Friday.

    Freakier Friday cast and crew criticise ‘hurtful’ Asian stereotypes in 2003 film

  • Martin Scorsese and Pope Francis shake hands

    Martin Scorsese announces film that will feature Pope Francis’s ‘final interview’

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documentaries
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We Did Not Consent

Three women, disguising their identities with theatrical masks, revisit memories of the undercover "spy cops" who infiltrated their lives and forged false relationships

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What to watch

  • He glares intensely into the camera, wearing a leather vest and a lion’s head as a helmet

    Rock’n’roles: Dwayne Johnson films – ranked!

  • Jonathan Pryce in The Two Popes, Ralph Fiennes in Conclave, Robbie Coltrane in The Pope Must Die, Liv Ullmann in Pope Joan, Jude Law in The Young Pope

    The holy screen: a brief history of popes on film and TV, from Peter O’Toole to Robbie Coltrane

    Jonathan Pryce was humorous, O’Toole capricious, Liv Ullman secretly female and Jude Law memorably Speedo-clad – onscreen pontiffs have come in all forms
  • Film Review - Sinners<br>This image released by Warner Bros Pictures shows Michael B. Jordan, right, in a scene from "Sinners." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

    Sinners: vampires, racial politics and a surprise cameo – discuss with spoilers

    Ryan Coogler’s ambitious box office hit combines genres to come up with something wholly original and fascinatingly complex
  • The cast of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

    ‘I still don’t know what it’s about’: Buckaroo Banzai, the surreal 80s flop that became a cult classic

  • Arnie as Hamlet in Last Action Hero (1993).

    Pink smoke, pigs and Pixar: a dozen movie Easter eggs to feast on

  • Spectacular … Julie Christie in Doctor Zhivago.

    Julie Christie at 85: her 20 best films – ranked!

  • a man in a suit and sunglasses points a finger

    ‘Everything is political’: how film can guide us through difficult times

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Opinion

  • 'Renfield' film premiere, New York, USA - 28 Mar 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Erik Pendzich/REX/Shutterstock (13849327z) Nicolas Cage 'Renfield' film premiere, New York, USA - 28 Mar 2023

    Post your questions for Nicolas Cage

  • Closing down signs are seen outside the Toys R Us store in Coventry, Britain, March 13, 2018. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

    Clean up on aisle four: the Toys R Us movie shows shopping and cinema are now interchangeable

    Stuart Heritage
  • two identical men wearing vests and button-downs look ahead

    Sinners is a horror film about the highs and lows of the Black experience

    Andrew Lawrence
  • A still from Warfare.

    What’s missing from Alex Garland’s Iraq movie Warfare? Context, motivation and, for the most part, Iraqis

    Peter Beaumont

  • Pillion, Phoenician and Panahi: superb lineup set to extend Cannes’ Oscar-sweeping streak

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Memo to Timothée Chalamet: instead of total-immersion ping pong, maybe take the year off

    Stuart Heritage

  • Stop screaming about the Beatles biopic. Start whooping for Zendaya as Ronnie Spector and Lizzo as Sister Rosetta Tharpe

    Miatta Mbriwa

  • Commemorative socks are one thing, Jeff Goldblum, but you’re missing a trick not doing official knickers

    Stuart Heritage

  • Val Kilmer was an ethereally handsome actor who evolved into droll self-awareness

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Help! Why are none of the new Beatles cast from Liverpool?

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Yes, Helen Mirren, James Bond is profoundly sexist. But more than a telling off, he needs a face-off

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Anora is nothing new – Hollywood has always been obsessed with sex workers

    Anne Billson
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Interviews

  • E.A. Hanks with her mother Susan Dillingham, at Disneyland circa 1997

    A child on thin ice: EA Hanks on life with her abusive mother – and world-famous father

  • older man wearing a pink suit and matching hat looks ahead

    Eccentric musician Swamp Dogg at 82: ‘There’s no sympathy for octogenarians’

    The genre-bending cult singer is the subject of an offbeat new documentary where he invites people into a long life filled with ups, downs and LSD
  • Film-Summer Preview<br>This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Owen Patrick in a scene from "Final Destination Bloodlines." (Eric Milner/Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

    The grisly return of Final Destination: ‘What are the everyday experiences we can ruin for people?’

    Twenty-five years after its first release, the horror franchise that made mundane life seem fraught with danger returns with a bloody but oddly moving fifth sequel
  • ‘The movie is about the consequences of violence’ … Souza on his film, starring Baldwin.

    ‘I wish I’d never written that damn movie’: Rust director Joel Souza on finishing his film after the fatal on-set shooting

  • Headshot of Heather Graham laughing, in denim jacket with one hand holding back her hair

    ‘I stopped talking to my parents – and life opened up’: Heather Graham on family, ageing and ‘creepy’ film-makers

  • Nigel Havers, press photo

    ‘I hum the Chariots of Fire theme all day, every day’: Nigel Havers on beach-running, playing Michael Caine’s son and hating his name

  • ‘It’s like he’s haunting her’ … Tessa Van den Broeck in Julie Keeps Quiet.

    ‘Where is the adult?’: how Leonardo Van Dijl filmed the story of a child tennis star’s abuse

Regulars

  • actors playing soldiers, guns raised, walking towards the viewer

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Warfare review – nerve-shredding real-time Iraq war film drags you into visceral frontline combat

  • Clockwise from top left: Pamela Anderson in The Last Showgirl; Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret in Viva Las Vegas; Sean Connery in Diamonds Are Forever; Nicolas Cage and Sarah Jessica Parker in Honeymoon in Vegas.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: The Last Showgirl and the best Las Vegas films

  • Lewis Pullman as Bob, AKA Sentry, AKA the Void in Thunderbolts*

    Week in geek
    Has Marvel shot itself in the foot by bringing superfreak Sentry into Thunderbolts*?

    Ben Child
  • Film Review - Sinners<br>This image released by Warner Bros Pictures shows Michael B. Jordan, right, in a scene from "Sinners." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

    Discuss with spoilers
    Sinners: vampires, racial politics and a surprise cameo – discuss with spoilers

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  • ‘Multiplying paradoxes’ … Prince

    From Prince to Michael Jackson: why are the most controversial documentaries getting canned?

  • Film-Summer Preview<br>This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Owen Patrick in a scene from "Final Destination Bloodlines." (Eric Milner/Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

    The grisly return of Final Destination: ‘What are the everyday experiences we can ruin for people?’

    Twenty-five years after its first release, the horror franchise that made mundane life seem fraught with danger returns with a bloody but oddly moving fifth sequel
  • ‘The movie is about the consequences of violence’ … Souza on his film, starring Baldwin.

    ‘I wish I’d never written that damn movie’: Rust director Joel Souza on finishing his film after the fatal on-set shooting

    He was hit by the same bullet that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The film-maker talks about his hopes for his western, his complicated feelings towards star Alec Baldwin – and why the industry hasn’t learned
  • FILE PHOTO: The iconic Hollywood Sign is pictured in Los Angeles, California, U.S., September 17, 2024. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo

    ‘It feels empty’: is Hollywood film and TV production in a death spiral?

  • Leni Riefenstahl in a still from the new documentary

    How did Hitler’s film-maker hide her complicity from the world?

  • Kangaroo Jack …

    Coming soon … fame for film’s unsung superheroes: the trailer-makers!

  • From a town called Porpoise Spit … Rachel Griffiths, Daniel Lapaine, Toni Collette and Bill Hunter in the 1994 favourite.

    How we made Muriel’s Wedding: ‘No one wanted a film about a plus-sized thief and liar’

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Film genres

  • Film-Summer Preview<br>This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Owen Patrick in a scene from "Final Destination Bloodlines." (Eric Milner/Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

    Action
    The grisly return of Final Destination: ‘What are the everyday experiences we can ruin for people?’

  • Boonie Bears: Future Reborn.

    Animation
    Boonie Bears: Future Reborn review – kiddie Chinese eco-fable is like Mad Max on mushrooms

  • DON JOHNSON &amp; PHILIP M THOMAS MIAMI VICE 01/05/1988 CTC4832 Couples

    Crime
    Miami Vice: new movie on the way from Top Gun: Maverick director

  • Peg o' My Heart

    Drama
    Peg o’ My Heart review – Hong Kong’s disordered dream life is focus of Lynchian thriller

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