Film

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

Emerald Fennell’s third film is far from a well-behaved literary adaptation, but it's thoroughly enjoyable

Chronovisor, Bowels of Hell and Variations on a Theme stand out at the Rotterdam Film Festival

The Saltburn director ropes in Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi to give a bleak classic the Bridgerton treatment

The Baftas are coming. The Oscars are next. And yet again, they’ll reward hopelessly middlebrow films that honour the ruling ideas of the ruling class

Kubrick made elite depravity look operatic. The Epstein files show the real thing as vile and vacuous

The Chronology of Water is gruelling and honest – and Imogen Poots has never been better

Godard’s A Bout De Souffle is needlessly repetitive and unbearably sexist

The paper commissioned an influencer who calls himself Maga Malfoy to give a glowing review to Amazon’s eye-wateringly expensive hagiography

Amazon’s $75m documentary about the first lady is a shameful waste of time and money

Once again, the director’s Nouvelle Vague is a love letter to a cultural milieu and an enchantment in its own right

The director of the first lady’s troubled new film was the centre of serious accusations of sexual assault

Predator: Badlands and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy prove that some franchises improve when they stop pandering to old fans

Exhibitions in London and Paris show a big-time director whose remarkable attention to detail comes from thinking small

Predator: Badlands and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy show some franchises improve when they stop pandering to ageing fans

At the heart of Park Chan-wook’s dark satire is the question of, when faced with the loss of status, how far will the modern man will go to restore it?

The Oscar-nominated star of Marty Supreme is either unbearably self-confident — or quietly hilarious

Nia DaCosta takes the reins in this no-holds-barred exploration of cults, superstition and what happens to humanity when reason collapses