Romance films
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4 out of 5 stars.
Drylongso review – charming 90s indie is a genre-resistant film that keeps its DIY dazzle
4 out of 5 stars.Cauleen Smith’s 1998 debut about a California girl who takes Polaroids of young black men as an endangered-species record, is captivating
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4 out of 5 stars.
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry review – a beguiling tale of midlife love from Georgia
4 out of 5 stars.Eka Chavleishvili is superb as an unmarried fortysomething woman whose life is turned upside-down by romance in Elene Naveriani’s handsome drama
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NotebookA successful woman in her 40s with a toyboy pop star? Great on screen in The Idea of You, scary in realityBidisha MamataIt’s far less bother to stream romcoms, like the latest Anne Hathaway film, into my living room than play them out in real life
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3 out of 5 stars.The star makes for a charming lead playing a mother falling for a younger pop star in a passable adaptation of Robinne Lee’s bestselling pulp
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4 out of 5 stars.
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry review – a gentle gem about mid-life love and loneliness
4 out of 5 stars.Elene Naveriani’s film tells the story of a middle-aged single woman in a remote Georgian village whose life is changed for ever after a near-death experience
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The Kristen Stewart / Robert Pattinson vampire romantasy is back and supported by rock and classical musicians – just the latest film to be granted the mysterious live concert treatment
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4 out of 5 stars.Wendy Ide's film of the weekChallengers review – Zendaya holds court in absurdly sexy three-way tennis romanceLuca Guadagnino’s sizzling, sharply scripted drama, co-starring Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, is such fun it’s almost indecent
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Muscular bodies dripping with sweat are all over cinema screens – and each other. But these films are very different from the sports romances of old
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The fortysomething turned her wildest fantasy – about running off with a boyband member for hot sex in fabulous locations – into a bestseller. As it hits the screen, Lee talks about writing steamy scenes in Starbucks – and her terror of being judged
Double fault: Challengers is as bad in the bedroom as it is on the tennis court