Film

Audrey Diwan’s powerful abortion drama Happening has completed a clean sweep of major awards for female directors. But, she says, real equality is still far away

I, Claudius is remembered as a BBC classic, but it started a trend for historical European-set dramas with extra helpings of sex and violence

His polymathic attitude to genres and prolific output mean he is rarely spoken of in the same awed tones as a Hitchcock or Capra, but Curtiz was as much of a craftsman as any Hollywood great

Dutch king of controversy Paul Verhoeven returns with Benedetta, a convent drama more devilish than The Devils

The Oscars night should, too, have been about the Williams sisters, their genius and how their problematic but remarkable father nurtured it

With the release of True Things, has UK cinema finally grown up enough to depict sex acts on screen without sniggering?

A superb new film may be disowned by its director – because it is set in Russia

A Netflix biopic of the woman considered Poland's Marilyn Monroe fails to delve in any satisfying way into the interesting story it has to tell

Lili Damita began her life as a revue star, ended it as a broken-hearted recluse and married Errol Flynn in between

The Godfather was hailed as a masterpiece from when it first aired 1972. And, it still is today

The Worst Person in the World city's renaissance

A leading light of contemporary French cinema, Jacques Audiard is now trying to redefine the nouvelle vague aesthetic for a new century

Two 1990s films made by a future Putin ally explain the national obsession with humiliation that led to Ukraine

CHARLIE CONNELLY on a French cinema legend who always made something extraordinary out of the ordinary

As The Godfather is re-released, what lessons does it hold for fans like the prime minister about holding on to power at any cost?

A new documentary attempts to find out who the man behind The Tramp really was, but is thrown off the scent at every turn

How the battle over free TV licences for pensioners led to a daring heist in 1961 by an OAP. Possibly...

CHARLIE CONNELLY on the actor behind the most terrifying cinematic performance of all time

The remarkable animated movie that broke Oscar nomination records

What is the best way to portray the Holocaust to children? The film struggles to find an answer to this but it's a reminder that Anne Frank's diaries have

CHARLIE CONNELLY on the committed revolutionary behind a scene which endures as one of the major turning points in the history of film

JASON SOLOMONS on one of European cinema's most glamorous stars - and an unlikely affair with his own grandfather

A new documentary reveals the brutality of the Home Office’s Hostile Environment Policy and shows how Britain is no longer a refuge. By JASON SOLOMONS

CHARLIE CONNELLY on a Jewish actress who considered a kick in the behind from Hitler the luck of her life

Costume drama star Romola Garai gets her revenge on anyone who makes assumptions about her by making a grisly horror. By JASON SOLOMONS

Images of China’s relentless acceleration are both beautiful and troubling

A Netflix film poses a pivotal question – are any two people meant to be together, or is it just a matter of timing?

Fifty years on from the flop film version that became a cult classic, taking another ride along with the psychedelic French-British TV sensation for kids

Award-winning director Andrea Arnold is back, with a moving documentary about a cow

America has always been full of 'Rampaging White People'. But if anyone can face them it's Joe Biden, writes BONNIE GREER.

From a fresh perspective on a classic French tale to a tense drama set on a freezing Russian train, our movie picks for the first third of 2022

Netflix's A Classic Horror Story deserves a wider audience, says MEGAN NOLAN