Film

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

A year after his death, the Twin Peaks director is universally loved. Would this Don of darkness really be happy about that?

There is not a shred of sentimentality in Chloé Zhao’s magnificent adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel. This is where its brilliance lies

From the Beckhams to Eddie Murphy and Charlie Sheen, they promise truth but deliver reputation-laundering dressed up as intimacy

Chloé Zhao’s film is deeply felt and beautifully made – but misses the essence of what made the playwright so great

A new Spielberg, a remake of The Bride of Frankenstein and an exploration of the Moroccan outdoor rave scene are among the films to watch out for this year

The actor, activist and icon didn't care what anyone thought of her. That was both her greatest strength and her fatal flaw

Zendaya and Nolan return, Blade Runner expands and Peaky Blinders concludes. What our editor-at-large is most looking forward to in 2026

The star who began in children's theatre in a Norwegian forest is Oscar-bound with Sentimental Value

The white stuff in big movies isn’t real - sometimes it’s bleached cornflakes, sometimes fire extinguisher foam.. and it used to be asbestos

James Cameron’s CGI sci-fi epics are a box-office phenomenon - but also completely forgettable

The trailer has been released for the film about the world's least happy-looking woman

The president is moving beyond politics – and seeking to claim control of what Americans watch

Forget Die Hard. Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is the perfect Christmas movie

Our writers on their cultural highlights of the year

The president’s social media messages about the murdered director reveal him as a humourless, bitter bigot

The Room in the Tower is his eighth festive special for the BBC: long may he continue