Film

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

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