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Movies

  • Jia Ling hitting a punchbag in the film Yolo.

    Yolo review – smash-hit Chinese boxing drama is a tale of personal transformation

    The physical efforts of Jia Ling, who writes, directs and stars, are impressive, but too much time is spent labouring over well-worn tropes of the genre
  • Man wearing black suit and tie holds gold statue

    Joaquin Phoenix and Joel Coen sign open letter in support of Glazer’s Oscar speech

  • Keanu Reeves in the 1999 film The Matrix.

    Time to take the blue pill – do we really need a fifth Matrix film?

  • Marco Bellocchio at Nastri D'Argento awards in Rome in 2023.

    ‘As with all such moments, there are innocent victims’: Marco Bellocchio on his new film about the notorious kidnapping of a Jewish child

  • Two possessed girls with scarred faces and creepy eyes stare up at the camera as they sit back to back, their heads resting on each others' shoulders.

    ‘Good and evil are at war, and the battlefield is the female body’: how Satanic horror has returned to haunt the age of Trump

  • THE FIRST OMEN<br>Nell Tiger Free as Margaret and Nicole Sorace as Carlita in 20th Century Studios' THE FIRST OMEN. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2024 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

    The First Omen review – stylish horror prequel is damned by its franchise

News

  • film still of man and a woman dressed in black wearing sunglasses looking down

    Warner Bros announces new Matrix movie helmed by Drew Goddard

  • a side-by-side image of Nelson Peltz and Bob Iger

    Disney wins boardroom showdown with activist investor

  • Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst in 2002’s Spider-Man.

    Kirsten Dunst says she ‘didn’t even think to ask’ about Hollywood’s gender pay gap

  • ‘Respect’ … l to r, Ken Loach and Jonathan Glazer.

    Ken Loach speaks out in support of Jonathan Glazer’s ‘occupation’ Oscar speech

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Reviews

  • Class of 1984 … Ernie Hudson and Bill Murray in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

    Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire – time to consign franchise to the spirit realm

  • a nun holding a candle with other nuns behind her

    Immaculate – Sydney Sweeney plays scream queen in gory nun horror

    The Euphoria breakout goes all-in with a fun, nasty slab of nunsploitation that also acts as commentary on female bodily autonomy
  • Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor face off in Road House.

    Road House – Conor McGregor almost steals riotous 80s remake

    Jake Gyllenhaal fills Patrick Swayze’s shoes in a brashly entertaining romp featuring a knockout debut from the UFC champ

  • Shirley – Regina King rises above dutiful, by-the-numbers biopic

  • Late Night With the Devil – demonic talkshow channels horror of 1970s TV

  • Irish Wish – Lindsay Lohan’s luck runs out in charmless romcom

  • Little Wing – Brian Cox wasted in underwhelming YA drama

  • You’ll Never Find Me – profoundly creepy and thrillingly bold Australian horror film

  • Cabrini – lushly mounted hagiography of the first US saint to be canonised

  • Damsel – Millie Bobby Brown goes Rambo in diverting Netflix adventure

  • Imaginary – a shoddy and unimaginative creepshow

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Video & audio

  • bed illustration

    Weekend podcast: Does murder count if you’re asleep? Marina Hyde on Christian Horner’s F1 drama; and how inanity ruined the red carpet

  • The actor whose credits include Rocky and Predator, has died at 76

    Carl Weathers' most memorable film and TV roles – video obituary

    The actor whose credits include Rocky and Predator, has died at 76
  • Tyla performs during New Year’s Eve celebrations in New York City.

    Culture 2024: what to watch and listen to this year

    Culture critics Peter Bradshaw, Tshepo Mokoena and Gwilym Mumford look ahead to the best of the year in film, TV and music
  • The South Korean actor was best known for his portrayal of the wealthy and shallow patriarch in the 2019 Oscar-winning film Parasite

    1:28

    A look back at Parasite actor Lee Sun-kyun's career – video obituary

  • In a scene from the film Barbie, Barbie, played by Margot Robbie, and Ken, played by Ryan Gosling, drive through the desert.

    Revisited: why do Republicans hate the Barbie movie? – podcast

  • Andre Braugher rose to fame on the NBC drama Homicide: Life on the Street before starring in the comedy hit show Brooklyn Nine-Nine

    1:48

    Andre Braugher's most memorable film and TV roles – video obituary

  • Nicolas Cage in a scene from Dream Scenario

    Weekend podcast: Nicolas Cage, Marina Hyde on David Cameron’s return, plus cardiologists’ advice for a healthy heart

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Opinion

  • Knives Out Premiere - LA, Los Angeles, United States - 14 Nov 2019<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Hahn Lionel/ABACA/REX/Shutterstock (13113280ge) M. Emmet Walsh attends the premiere of "Knives Out" at Regency Village Theatre on November 14, 2019 in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Knives Out Premiere - LA, Los Angeles, United States - 14 Nov 2019

    M Emmet Walsh was both a mesmerising everyman and an indelible gargoyle. How I’ll miss those poached-egg eyes

    Peter Bradshaw
  • No whiteout this year … Robert Downey Jr (best supporting actor), Da'Vine Joy Randolph (best supporting actress), Emma Stone (best actress) and Cillian Murphy (best actor).

    Nine years after #OscarsSoWhite, has Hollywood got the message on diversity?

    Lanre Bakare
  • Not everyone’s a winner … who will triumph at the Oscars?

    Oscars 2024: Who will win, who should win – and who was snubbed

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Tickets please … the group of film-makers who now own the Village Theater cinema.

    In LA, directors have clubbed together to save a landmark cinema. Why don’t Brits do the same?

    Mark Cousins

  • Shove over, Russell Crowe. No action hero has suffered like Sylvester Stallone

    Stuart Heritage

  • Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer gamble pays off with Bafta night success

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Furious jumping: why Henry Cavill is wrong to be cross with sex scenes

    Stuart Heritage

  • Ten years on from his death, Philip Seymour Hoffman still shines bright

    Peter Bradshaw

  • It’s in pole position, but Oppenheimer may not have it all its own way on Oscars night

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Norman Jewison: a staggering array of work from Hollywood’s master craftsman

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Baftas 2024: Oppenheimer’s passion and ambition stomps over the opposition once again

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Andrew Scott is right – it’s time to retire the phrase ‘openly gay’

    Ryan Gilbey
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Interviews

  • Seen as prey … the Webb sisters in The Hills of California.

    ‘This is more than a #MeToo drama’: Jez Butterworth on his new play – and punching Harvey Weinstein

  • On target … Erice’s loosely autobiographical Close Your Eyes.

    ‘I have not been living in the Himalayas!’ The return of Spirit of the Beehive director Víctor Erice

    It is seen as one of the greatest films ever, with the most hypnotic child performance in history. So what has Víctor Erice been doing in the half century since Beehive? As his new film Close Your Eyes hits screens, the Spanish legend reveals all
  • Evil Does Not Exist

    Oscar-winning director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi: ‘The world is full of mystery and absurdity’

    After being catapulted to the big time with Drive My Car, the director’s next film Evil Does Not Exist has helped him escape the pressure of his success – and is designed to retain an air of the unknown
  • Eddie Marsan

    Eddie Marsan: ‘Mitch Winehouse was a loving father whose daughter was an addict’

  • ‘We just have to make what we think is good’: Lolly Adefope wears dress by Pleats Please by Issey Miyake (uk-store.isseymiyake.com); and shoes and earrings by katespade.co.uk.

    ‘Nothing beats making your friends laugh’: Lolly Adefope on the absurdity of fame, the trouble with Netflix – and saying goodbye to Ghosts

  • Civil War film. Behind the scene. Director: Alex Garland

    Civil War film-maker Alex Garland: ‘In the US and UK there’s a lot to be very concerned about’

  • Philippa Gregory

    Philippa Gregory: ‘I’m lazy domestically. I don’t do housework. My mother would have called me a slut’

Regulars

  • Laure Calamy, centre, in The Origin of Evil with, clockwise from left, Céleste Brunnquell, Dominique Blanc, Jacques Weber, Doria Tillier and Véronique Ruggia Saura.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    The Origin of Evil review – Laure Calamy shines in enjoyably pulpy, Highsmith-esque thriller

  • Four-picture composite of Only Yesterday; Andrew Scott in All of Us Strangers; Matthew Perry, centre, in 17 Again; Sonsoles Aranguren and Lola Cardona in El Sur.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: All of Us Strangers and the best films that revisit childhood

  • Keanu Reeves in the 1999 film The Matrix.

    Week in geek
    Time to take the blue pill – do we really need a fifth Matrix film?

  • Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in Don’t Look Now.

    Mark Kermode on film
    Nicolas Roeg: ‘Nothing is what it seems’

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  • Toned down … an image from the Dalí dream sequence in Hitchcock’s Spellbound.

    ‘Dalí’s were unfilmable’: the astonishing story of Hitchcock’s lost storyboards – found in a bric-a-brac sale

  • dvds on a shelf divided by labels

    The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming: ‘One day you’ll barter bread for our DVDs’

    As more movies vanish from streaming services, cinephiles are rallying to physical media. Can they save a seemingly dying format?
  • A line of people walking across sand dunes

    ‘I wanted to humanise those lost in the statistics’: four directors on their new movies depicting refugee journeys

    How does it feel to risk trafficking and torture to seek a better life in a strange land? Directors including Matteo Garrone and Milad Alami are tackling one of the most pressing issues of our time
  • Licensed to kill? Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Idris Elba and James Martin.

    Keoghan, Madden, James Martin: who should be James Bond, if Aaron Taylor-Johnson is out?

  • Gary Oldman as Cary Grant in North by Northwest

    Stars in disguise: behind the scenes with Gary Oldman, Jennifer Lopez and Jerry Lewis – in pictures

  • Specs and a suit … Nighy was named as one of the best dressed over-50s in the Guardian.

    Post your questions for Bill Nighy

  • ‘She’d worked 13 days in a row and Ismail tried to cancel her weekend off’ … Emma Thompson with Anthony Hopkins in Howards End.

    ‘I got you an Oscar. Why do I need to pay you?’ The secret shocking truth about Merchant Ivory

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