Film

A new documentary captures the conundrum of the ultimate individual in a team sport

Gene Roddenberry’s franchise understands ageing, loss and friendship in ways George Lucas’s never has

The martial arts star wrote down his philosophies and hopes as a means of enacting them

Our greatest film writer’s new book says that Hollywood has made us all complicit in populism’s rise and intellectualism’s fall

Over 2,500 of Italy’s cinemas have closed since the pandemic. But a group of film enthusiasts has a plan to turn things around

Homer’s epic speaks powerfully to any age troubled by anxiety that the notion of home, reciprocity and social stability is in jeopardy

Billed as a sex comedy, it’s subtle, ambiguous and moving

Banned in Germany and made available on X, Citizen Vigilante isn’t an aberration; it’s the logical endpoint of Hollywood’s careless obsession with a violent, racist myth

Two horror hits have supposedly sparked a film revolution. So why are female and minority film-makers still being asked to wait their turn?

Does it point the way to the future? Yes, but only because the future is shit

A helter-skelter adventure is full of pace and enchantment - with a religious twist

The great director should have thought twice about promoting the conspiracy theories that are now a central plank of US government policy

Steven Spielberg's new aliens movie arrives at the perfect moment for US conspiracy culture

They’ve captured a moment of IP fatigue. But more than anything else, they're good

For every standout performance in The Hours, there’s a stinker like Scarpetta. Yet this is part of her unknowable mystique

Season two’s gentle satire and mid-life angst is catnip for Gen Xers

The new video game that takes the spy back to his roots shows film-makers how to revitalise the franchise

The screen legend had 49 homes in her 36 years, and took her collection of 400 books wherever she moved

The monster movie stood out at a festival full of three-star films

Rosamund Pike, Fiona Shaw and Sacha Baron Cohen can't save this trite and dodgy role-reversal comedy drama

The car salesman was on social media complaining about a casting decision in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey. What Musk showed was that he doesn’t really know anything about classical civilisation

AI slop wrecks a compelling final interview, but Cantona, Full Phil and Paper Tiger stand out at Cannes

The effortlessly stylish star preferred walking her dogs or arranging flowers to attending galas and premieres

Why were the heads of the FBI and CIA calling a Manhattan wine salesman on the morning of 9/11?

A film about a great painter needs great paintings to succeed

Lee Sang-il’s remarkable film charts the cost of being a national treasure

The documentary that asks: who owns the ground beneath our feet?

A new book details how three friends invented a new American cinema - then created the blockbusters that destroyed it

Edward Chisholm’s first book was so good I’m making a movie of it. The second is even better

‘Michael’ avoids the claims of child abuse by the King of Pop – and falls into the same old cliches

PL Travers told Walt Disney to throw out the animation and that Julie Andrews was too pretty for the role

Network and All the President’s Men are 50 years old. Both diagnose the beginnings of today’s political diseases – and show symptoms of the sickness of conspiracy theory