Film

Ballerina is a smart and stylish John Wick universe detour that weaponises grace

The Mission: Impossible films show a man who bends the chaos of the world to his will and saves humanity. But what would Friedrich make of it all?

Jesse Armstrong’s return as writer and director of this feature-length drama has been giddily anticipated. And it does not disappoint

She had nowhere to hide but, as both documentary and book are at pains to point out, just because she wanted to be alone it did not necessarily mean she shunned personal contact

The American indie stalwart's latest film tells the story of the making of another: Jean-Luc Godard’s À bout de souffle

Vladimir Putin banned Aleksandr Sokurov’s Fairytale - and the director has retired in protest. But the power of what might be his final movie, assembled with found footage, cannot be dimmed

In Cannes, the story of a photographer killed by an Israeli air strike and a lo-fi thriller offer different visions of tragedy and retribution in the Middle East

Wes Anderson's latest project immerses us, once again, in his surreal but sincere emotional universe

The Hereditary director ropes Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone into a misanthropic failure of a conspiracy thriller

Having saved the world numerous times on the big screen, could the star be tempted to sort out the world’s problems via political office?

Why does MAGA hate Europe? Maybe they’ve just watched too many movies...

Andres Veiel’s magnificent documentary lets Riefenstahl, in her interviews, recordings and archived files, speak for herself

Is Italy’s most famous director all style and no substance?

A new documentary is a reminder that the film director and writer was a willing and eager propagandist for evil

A newly discovered, signed script for Jean-Luc Godard’s first and greatest movie, Breathless, could fetch more than £400,000 at auction

This stunning exhibition is the first London show dedicated to Utagawa Hiroshige’s prolific creativity in more than 25 years

Donald Trump swore he would face down the world – then blinked first. His aura is damaged forever

However his works might have been assembled and whatever dissembling he did when talking about his life, Jerzy Kosiński was a master storyteller

To this day, the family of de Menezes has received no true justice for his killing

‘When did anti-fascism become controversial?’ Director Joe Wright on the future of M: Son of the Century, his streaming series about Italy's fascist dictator

A serious artist, the Austrian actress made the fatal mistake of failing to live up to something she had never been in the first place

At its heart of this film is the megawatt screen charisma of Michael B Jordan and a deep appreciation of the blues

Uberto Pasolini’s new film adaptation of the Odyssey is a psychological exploration of trauma in a world where the gods are absent

The Oscar-winning director of The Artist returns with a fairytale rooted in horror

That he remained upbeat despite his many misfortunes was amazing. That he managed to make his home country laugh for over half a century borders on the miraculous

Directed by Darren Thornton and co-written by his brother Colin, Four Mothers is more ambitious than a gentle drama

Set in a future where the government decides who gets to have children, The Assessment is a personal triumph for film-maker Fleur Fortuné

The comic dilemmas in The Studio are a joy to watch and class of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's writing style

While a cinema legend faces sexual assault claims, his Kremlin-defending lawyer denigrates witnesses – and compares his client’s treatment to the French revolution terror

Barry Levinson’s true-crime gangster story is a pleasing encapsulation of five decades of cinematic culture

Under communism, Polish artists were given freedom to produce posters advertising Hollywood films in a way their makers never dreamed of

Forty years since his first feature film, Steven Soderbergh has rarely been better