Film

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

AI slop wrecks a compelling final interview, but Cantona, Full Phil and Paper Tiger stand out at Cannes

The effortlessly stylish star preferred walking her dogs or arranging flowers to attending galas and premieres

Why were the heads of the FBI and CIA calling a Manhattan wine salesman on the morning of 9/11?

A film about a great painter needs great paintings to succeed

Lee Sang-il’s remarkable film charts the cost of being a national treasure

The documentary that asks: who owns the ground beneath our feet?

A new book details how three friends invented a new American cinema - then created the blockbusters that destroyed it

Edward Chisholm’s first book was so good I’m making a movie of it. The second is even better

‘Michael’ avoids the claims of child abuse by the King of Pop – and falls into the same old cliches

PL Travers told Walt Disney to throw out the animation and that Julie Andrews was too pretty for the role

Network and All the President’s Men are 50 years old. Both diagnose the beginnings of today’s political diseases – and show symptoms of the sickness of conspiracy theory

After years of misinterpretation, François Ozon’s blank and beautiful movie truly understands the Camus classic

In his only UK interview for Father Mother Sister Brother, the director opens up about his films, his inspirations and why he hates rehearsals

Actor Benjamin Voisin, star of a new movie version of the French classic, believes there is ‘something admirable’ in murderous anti-hero Meursault

Movies intended to make you scream with fright are everywhere. Ones to make you scream with laughter, not so much

The exiled writer/director knew that audiences really wanted empathy from Hollywood, not glamour

Raoul Peck, the director of Orwell: 2+2=5, on how the writer’s message is missed and misused – and what he would have thought of Trump and Gaza

The director on his stylistic shift in the acclaimed La Grazia - and his despair at modern politics

Patricia Cornwell’s stories about a medical examiner spent decades in development hell. Now they’ve delivered actual hell

Winners like Jessie Buckley, One Battle After Another and Sinners were predictable – but the fighting spirit of cinema offered a bit of hope

A haunting literary adaptation is laced with grief and guilt

The Bride, Wuthering Heights, even One Battle After Another prioritise mayhem over coherence

The foul-mouthed vinyl-botherer is leaving cinema behind to bring a "swashbuckling comedy" to London's West End

The Walking Dead, 28 Days Later, Fallout… zombies, nuclear wastelands and ruined cities dominate our screens

From Imogen Poots to Orwell 2+2=5, the best actors and films that weren't even nominated

Cillian Murphy rides again in an Arthurian finale to the Peaky Blinders saga

Stupidity isn't the biggest problem with MAGA – and Mike Judge’s 2006 farce is itself deeply flawed

In a WWII-set plot, the brittle bonhomie of Tim Roth’s homegrown fascist seems all too familiar

Future James Bond Callum Turner can’t save a pointless family drama about unhappy rich people

Ken Burns, the great documentary-maker, returns with a masterful study of the American revolution. The resonances for the present day are hard to miss