Film

The legend has survived centuries, power ballads and Mel Brooks because it speaks deeply to our concept of Englishness

The answer is that no one can possibly play the Fab Four as well as they played themselves

The novelist’s portrait of a movie star raises unsettling questions about privacy and truth

A vampiric director exploits his own characters in the master film-maker’s witty, honest Bitter Christmas

The smart, subversive cartoon comedy that a studio tried to kill turns an accident-prone predator into an unlikely champion against corporate power

Electra/Persona merges Sophocles and Bergman with enthralling results

The actress has been charting a strange course in recent months, allying herself with right wing tech bros and AI

Each rock movie is packed with clichés about real events and songwriting. Now Sam Mendes has that problem fourfold

Hollywood used to understand desire. Now even its sex comedies are embarrassed about the bedroom

Dominic Sessa is formidable in the biopic about the making of a celebrity chef

The director and critic returns with more episodes of his new epic The Story of Documentary Film

Tony, a new biopic of the celebrity chef’s early years, cuts through the sanctimony and myth

The Love Me Tender star on method acting, motherhood and refusing to fit in

Bands like Oasis are ducking interviews in favour of telling their own stories. Does that guarantee them an easy ride?

Punishment Park, the brutal mock-doc by Brit Peter Watkins that anticipated our age of rage and recrimination

Robert Altman’s Popeye was a disaster – until it wasn’t

His film has put The Odyssey on the bestseller list – yet a third of adults in the UK say that they have already given up on books

The far right trillionaire reckons his AI can do better than Christopher Nolan. It can’t

The painter-turned-director’s In the Hand of Dante has divided critics. Luckily, he thinks it’s a masterpiece

Rants, spoilers, lazy lists like this one - the internet has wrecked film writing and infected other parts of the trade, too

Sequels for The Devil Wears Prada, Practical Magic, The Princess Diaries and Romy & Michele show the industry waking up to the idea that women go to films too

Unwanted guests, bossy mums and women on the edge make Fruit Gathering, The Guest, Olivia and A Happy Family worth your money

Christopher Nolan’s masterwork is a smash hit. It has also driven plenty of people mad

He’s consistently brilliant and consistently underrated – and The Odyssey is another reminder to enjoy greatness while it lasts.

Christopher Nolan’s grand vision confirms him as the David Lean of his generation, the IMAX magus

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