Film

From The Shining to Get Out, here's our editor-at-large's guide of what to watch this Halloween

Scott Cooper’s superior biopic is a nuanced and absorbing account of a very particular cultural and personal moment in time

Kathryn Bigelow’s excellent thriller A House of Dynamite is part of a mushrooming trend

Deliver Me From Nowhere shows The Boss doing the work that politicians won’t – and telling the truth about a nation seduced by lies about itself

I’ve no idea why film is the one medium I just can’t seem to crack. Maybe it’s my attention span

In his boldest book yet, Ben Myers turns his gaze on the German actor’s infamous 1971 performance and on his own obsession with it

Bold and unsettling, Luca Guadagnino’s latest project easily transcends its contemporary source material

A sci-fi film from 2013 was meant to offer a utopian vision of the future – in fact it is a perfect picture of our age of techno nihilism

Ebs Burnough’s new documentary, Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation, wants you to believe that we have more desire to communicate than social media will lead you to believe

The reels from Palestine and Italy might be a century old – but they feel shockingly of the moment

It was the stylish cult hit that ushered in a new generation of French film-making. But does Jean-Jacques Beineix’s thriller hold up 40-odd years on?

Amsterdam’s Eye Filmmuseum has dedicated an entire show to one performer for the first time

His Thursday Murder Club books are brilliantly crafted. Which makes the total failure of the film version so puzzling

The former professional wrestler has proved himself a screen performer to be taken very seriously indeed

Mysterious, graceful and defiant, Cardinale transcended the male gaze and wrote her own legend

Just when America most needs dissenting voices, the comedian is retiring from his brilliant WTF podcast after 16 years

Sensational and deeply cerebral, Paul Thomas Anderson’s 10th feature film is a stone-cold masterpiece

From The Man From UNCLE to NCIS, the Scottish actor defied typecasting to become a global star and a fixture of television history

Steve McQueen’s Occupied City reveals how the ghosts of Nazi occupation are still present, more than 80 years later

Robert Redford’s death reminds us of his effortless greatness - and that the age of the Hollywood giant is itself fading into history

Donald Trump has paid tribute to the late actor and director, who had mixed feelings about the man in the White House

The Voice of Hind Rajab, about the last hours of a five-year-old, is breaking audiences and winning awards

François Ozon makes bold artistic decisions in his adaptation of L’Étranger

A giant of 20th-century design had fallen into obscurity – but then it turned out he was still alive

Indie director Jim Jarmusch scooped the award with Father Mother Sister Brother - but what does this say about the future of film festivals?

Seventy years after his fatal crash, a pilgrimage to the place where an actor died and a legend was born

Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice is a masterfully savage comedy of murder and capitalist ruin

The film-making pair have already won the Palme d’Or twice – can they win a third?

Aronofsky can miss the mark when he over-conceptualises. But this very entertaining gangland caper is infectious

Norway’s new wave is winning awards and acclaim. But will funding problems kill off the boom just as audiences take notice?

Two films about unfolding tragedy shock the Locarno Film Festival

A new film captures the awkward, brittle reality of late-life male companionship