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Movies

  • Warm and open … l to r, Ben Hardy as Luke and Jason Patel as Aysha in Unicorns.

    Unicorns review – drama of queer south Asian club culture with added superstar drag queens

    Jason Patel is excellent as drag queen Aysha in Sally El Hosaini’s new film, but the scenes where Aysha visits her parents as Ashiq really steal the show
  • Julio Torres and Tilda Swinton in Problemista

    Problemista review – quirky hipster comedy lets Tilda Swinton go for the laughs

  • Stellan Skarsgård in What Remains. © CAA Media / Courtesy Everett Collection

    What Remains review – sky squid confounds Stellan Skarsgård in true-life Scandi noir

  • Reunited … from left, John Ashton, Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.

    Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F review – fish-out-of-water Eddie Murphy chases past glories

  • Kirsten Dunst and Paul Bettany in 2004 romcom Wimbledon.

    Love all! Wimbledon, the delightfully predictable tennis romcom at 20

  • Film still: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

    Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to open Venice film festival

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News

  • portrait of man wearing black shirt in front of taupe backdrop

    Robert Towne, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Chinatown, dies aged 89

  • Blitz<br>Steve McQueen's Blitz to open the 68th BFI London Film Festival. Saoirse Ronan

    Steve McQueen’s Blitz to open the London film festival

  • A composite photo showing Jacques Doillon, left, and Benoit Jacquot

    French directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon detained over sex assault allegations

  • Mike Leigh at the Mediterrane film festival in Malta.

    Mike Leigh: Peterloo protesters would be ‘horrified’ by voter abstention

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Reviews

  • Kevin Durand as Proximus Caesar in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – future simians swing through cinematic jungle

  • Woman wearing patterned top looks at man wearing grey shirt

    Mother of the Bride – Brooke Shields leads middling Netflix mush

    More background fluff from the streamer, this time from Mean Girls director Mark Waters with a splashy Thailand location
  • Dounble trouble … Parker Young and Sasha Pieterse in The Image of You.

    The Image of You – schlocky erotic thriller is ripe with naffness

    Identical twins mistaken for each other, a desperately obvious crime, the production values of a 70s TV mystery … this is cheap and tedious but not without a certain knowing charm

  • The Fall Guy – Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt fun it up in goofy stuntman romance

  • Tarot – disappointment is in the cards with silly supernatural horror

  • The Idea of You – Anne Hathaway lives out fanfic fantasy in solid romance

  • Unfrosted – Jerry Seinfeld delivers a surreal toast to Pop-Tarts

  • Prom Dates – grating high school comedy is a low-rent disaster

  • Turtles All the Way Down – Isabela Merced leads winning yet uneven YA film

  • Boy Kills World – ripped Bill Skarsgård shows he’s got brutal action chops

  • Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver – Zack Snyder’s bombastically fun sequel

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Video & audio

  • Josh O'Connor portrait photographed for the Observer New Review

    Josh O’Connor on Zendaya and gardening; Marina Hyde on the Met Gala; being a boy in 2024; and Philippa Perry offers advice on leaving a legacy - podcast

  • bed illustration

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

    It’s the Christian Horner paradox, according to Marina Hyde: F1 is now hideously dull, but it’s never been more dramatic; if you kill someone in your sleep, is it murder?; and ‘What a ridiculous question!’ How fawning, and 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

  • The South Korean actor was best known for his portrayal of the wealthy and shallow patriarch in the 2019 Oscar-winning film Parasite

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    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

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

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Opinion

  • Donald Sutherland &amp; Sharon Williams Film: Don'T Look Now (UK/IT 1973) / Literaturverfilmung (Based On The Book By Daphne Du Maurier) Director: Nicolas Roeg 11 October 1973 CTH26809 Allstar Picture Library/CASEY PRODUCTIONS\STUDIOCANAL **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of CASEY PRODUCTIONS\STUDIOCANAL and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To CASEY PRODUCTIONS\STUDIOCANAL is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company. Character(s): John Baxter &amp; Christine Baxter

    Donald Sutherland was an irreplaceable aristocrat of cinema

    Peter Bradshaw
  • ‘I think the point is to make us despair’ … Russell Crowe in The Exorcism (left), and in The Pope's Exorcist

    Unoriginal sins: why does Russell Crowe keep making exorcism movies?

    Stuart Heritage
  • Dolce Vita, La - 1960<br>Editorial use only. No book cover usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Riama-Pathe/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5886006al) Anouk Aimee Dolce Vita, La - 1960 Director: Federico Fellini Riama-Pathe ITALY Film Portrait Drama

    Anouk Aimée: an entrancing 60s movie icon with an air of glamorous unknowability

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Mickey Mouse in a 1928 version of Steamboat Willie.

    After the Winnie-the-Pooh slasher, now there’s a Mickey Mouse horror movie. This is not necessarily a bad thing

    Stuart Heritage

  • Netflix released Takashi Miike’s new film without telling anyone. Please stop doing this!

    Stuart Heritage

  • Alien? Mission: Impossible? Toy Story? What is the greatest movie franchise ever?

  • Super Size Me was a terrific cheeky stunt – small wonder Morgan Spurlock never matched it

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Sorry Seth Rogen, but if cinemas are the new museums, the movies really are in trouble

    Stuart Heritage

  • Roger Corman: cinema's pulp genius whose talent to shock was rocket fuel

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Double fault: Challengers is as bad in the bedroom as it is on the tennis court

    Mike McCahill

  • What’s the perfect movie length? Only a lightweight needs toilet or food breaks

    Peter Bradshaw

  • High-minded, progressive and literate, Laurent Cantet made a trio of brilliant films

    Peter Bradshaw
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Interviews

  • Kevin Bacon, in a pale blue shirt, arms and hands resting on a table next to his black-framed glasses

    ‘You have to get over the me thing’: Kevin Bacon on money, marriage – and learning to live with himself

  • Stellan Skarsgård.

    ‘In Europe, everyone’s screaming kill, kill, kill’: Stellan Skarsgård on Sweden, ‘silly’ Scandi noir and security

    The Swedish actor is playing a bamboozled police officer in What Remains, a film written by his wife and starring one of his sons. He looks back on mixing Marvel with arthouse, taking risks with Lars von Trier and Sweden joining Nato
  • ‘I thought everyone in music had a really glamorous life. So I tried to make normality feel glamorous’ … Mike Skinner of the Streets.

    The Streets’ Mike Skinner: ‘My mid-20s were utterly traumatic. Everything was upside down’

    As he plays Glastonbury and prepares a Fabric mix, Skinner answers your questions on his film debut, dinners with Chris Martin and the secret to true happiness
  • ‘Do not cut that scene down’ … the singer in I Am: Celine Dion.

    ‘In one scene, Celine Dion’s dancing. Next, she’s on a gurney’: making the film about the singer’s tragic condition

  • Stevie Van Zandt attends the "Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple" premiere during the Tribeca Festival at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center on Saturday, June 8, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

    Stevie Van Zandt: ‘My religion switched right over to rock’n’roll’

  • Cyndi Lauper

    ‘Want to be a real artist? Keep going!’: Cyndi Lauper at 71 on self-doubt, success – and surviving sexual assault

  • Michael Anthony Hall

    ‘My life was surreal’: Anthony Michael Hall on John Hughes, therapy and his ‘wild ass’ childhood

Regulars

  • This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Emma Stone, foreground left, and Jesse Plemons in a scene from "Kinds of Kindness." (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Kinds of Kindness review – Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with Emma Stone for overlong but admirable triptych

  • L-r: Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink, Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in Ghost and Rob Lowe in Behind the Candelabra.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best of the Brat Packers

  • On the way to different worlds … still from 2007’s Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer.

    Week in geek
    Is Marvel breaking all its own rules with the new Fantastic Four movie?

  • David Cronenberg in Cannes last month for the premiere of his latest film, The Shrouds.

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… David Cronenberg, master of gore as a metaphor for our deepest anxieties

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You may have missed

  • A mystical creature with horns looks menacingly at Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

    Will The Rock’s Red One be the worst Christmas movie ever?

  • Keira Knightley and Donald Sutherland in Pride and Prejudice (2005).

    ‘I can see him now. I will see him forever’: Donald Sutherland remembered by Keira Knightley, Elliott Gould, Ralph Fiennes and more

    He was a screen icon who could transform a film. Co-stars and directors of the great actor, who died last week aged 88, recall his warmth, erudition – and love of filthy jokes
  • Tim Roth in Made in Britain.

    ‘Quite a scrap’: David Leland on the fight that Tim Roth started to get cast in Made in Britain

    The screenwriter of Alan Clarke’s classic drama, who died in December, describes how the untried young actor secured his approval
  • Sally Hawkins and Steve Coogan in The Lost King.

    What does Steve Coogan’s Lost King case mean for future biopics?

  • RTE News Henry Winkler

    Don’t you know who I am? Why vox-poppers surprised by celebrities is such a good thing

  • Britain's Forgotten Prisoners.

    Sixteen years for stealing a flower pot: the film about the IPP jail sentence ‘designed to bury you alive’

  • A black-and-white image of seven young men and women seated and standing at a bistro table with a checked tablecloth and roundback chairs, laughing uproariously.

    Looking back on life in the Brat Pack: ‘It never existed in any real way’

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