Film

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

The suave star once tested himself by working with prestige directors. Now he’s phoning it in in fluff like Jay Kelly

In Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, it is Sandler who steals the show with his best performance since Uncut Gems (2019)

I’ll go out of my way to watch stuff I’m sure won’t be my thing, just because finding common ground is pleasant – even if it’s friendly disagreement

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the most terrifying film ever made. So why did I watch it when I was 11, and why does it still have a hold on me?

Joel Edgerton’s career-best performance underpins a modern classic that owes s substantial debt to Terrence Malick

Linklater’s film takes on thwarted love and the pain of looming obsolescence. It was easily my favourite from this year's London Film Festival

After years of scary AI movies, the tech is now portrayed as heroic – just as the industry’s humans come into its sights

The White Lotus actress is a registered Republican, but that isn’t a reason to troll her – our idea of liberal Hollywood is a myth

Not all cinema has to be art. But this exhibition at the Design Museum proves Wes Anderson's most certainly is

A new documentary series turns the director into a Hollywood saint – and dulls some of his brilliance

The film that’s dividing critics and the public has writer/director James Vanderbilt at the heart of its problems

It may lack the innovation of Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest, but James Vanderbilt’s compelling film still makes for essential watching today

This film is a fine addition to Daniel Day-Lewis’s body of work, one of the greatest in cinema

Starting with Jennifer Lawrence’s Die My Love, a new wave of women-led films is showing what it really means to come undone

Bugonia is their fifth film together, and for some, the magic is wearing thin

From The Shining to Get Out, here's our editor-at-large's guide of what to watch this Halloween

Scott Cooper’s superior biopic is a nuanced and absorbing account of a very particular cultural and personal moment in time

Kathryn Bigelow’s excellent thriller A House of Dynamite is part of a mushrooming trend

Deliver Me From Nowhere shows The Boss doing the work that politicians won’t – and telling the truth about a nation seduced by lies about itself

I’ve no idea why film is the one medium I just can’t seem to crack. Maybe it’s my attention span

In his boldest book yet, Ben Myers turns his gaze on the German actor’s infamous 1971 performance and on his own obsession with it

Bold and unsettling, Luca Guadagnino’s latest project easily transcends its contemporary source material

A sci-fi film from 2013 was meant to offer a utopian vision of the future – in fact it is a perfect picture of our age of techno nihilism

Ebs Burnough’s new documentary, Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation, wants you to believe that we have more desire to communicate than social media will lead you to believe

The reels from Palestine and Italy might be a century old – but they feel shockingly of the moment

It was the stylish cult hit that ushered in a new generation of French film-making. But does Jean-Jacques Beineix’s thriller hold up 40-odd years on?

Amsterdam’s Eye Filmmuseum has dedicated an entire show to one performer for the first time

His Thursday Murder Club books are brilliantly crafted. Which makes the total failure of the film version so puzzling

The former professional wrestler has proved himself a screen performer to be taken very seriously indeed

Mysterious, graceful and defiant, Cardinale transcended the male gaze and wrote her own legend

Just when America most needs dissenting voices, the comedian is retiring from his brilliant WTF podcast after 16 years