Film

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

People with mental health issues can go to therapy, can seek help and learn to manage their conditions. But it’s important to remember that sometimes there is no happy ending

The Mandalorian & Grogu looks like being another disappointment. But there’s new hope for a flagging franchise…

The Spectator publisher once played Prince William in a dire TV movie about the life of Diana, Princess of Wales

A film about the cost of standing up for what you believe in is a stark contrast with the festival’s mealy-mouthed treatment of Gaza

Should it really be necessary for all movie makers to issue Middle East position papers before attending an awards ceremony?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr's running mate is leading the fundraising effort for a film mocking the reaction to the Covid pandemic

Wagner Moura is magnificent in a Brazilian thriller that’s a stone-cold masterpiece

In Good Luck. Have Fun. Don’t Die, Sam Rockwell and Gore Verbinski poke fun at the young’s tech addiction - without realising that older generations are even worse

Taxi Driver is 50 years old but its main character’s sexless white supremacy makes it more relevant than ever.

By ducking tough questions about Gaza at its opening press conference, the Berlin Film Festival has enraged film-makers, signalled its own irrelevance… and put genocide in the headlines

The firm is set to make massive loss on its $75m hagiography – but keeping the Trump family happy has still been good for its bottom line