Film

Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole understood our addiction to lurid stories – and the damage it causes

Aaron Sorkin’s film is gripping and scary, yet the Facebook founder and his toxic legacy remain untouchable

For decades, the male member was taboo. Now, from prestige drama to superhero satire, it’s everywhere

The great director warned that his 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast would be the tip of the iceberg

Daring and polarising, Alejandro G Iñárritu’s film reminds us of the important difference between culture wars and authentic argument about art

In Digger, the Hollywood hero is taking on his toughest stunt yet: trying to disappear

Ink is an advert for the old media that skirts over the damaging journalism Rupert Murodch’s tabloid unleashed

The people behind cinema’s unsung stars - from the German Shepherd star of Brad Pitt’s new movie to a black widow spider

Alex Gibney’s documentary Knife shows the ‘wounded happiness’ of a writer returning in triumph to the venue where he was nearly killed

A film-maker’s obsession with Afghanistan’s forgotten cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Momand becomes a deeply personal journey into his family’s past

Netflix’s new Ted Kaczynski movie arrives just as his violent war on technology is gaining a new generation of admirers from both left and right

A new documentary lets Victoria Rose and other doctors describe the horrors they have witnessed

The chilling documentary NAZA reveals how Gaza’s civilians are treated as collateral damage in the war against Hamas

Four hours is a long time to spend inside the mind of the world’s richest man – and that’s because his mind turns out to be a twisted, miserable nightmare

Inspiring long-lost footage of the indie pioneer shows how film-making can be political, passionate and daringly creative

Controversial, dizzyingly erudite and defiantly European, is the world finally catching up with the Slovenian thinker?

A new biopic of the great jazz pianist who died too soon neatly sidesteps music biopic cliches

EXCLUSIVE: The New World’s new diarist goes behind the scenes at a star-studded event in Venice

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?