Film

Keeley Hawes’s The Assassin is part of a rash of film and TV about professional killers. When and how did they become aspirational?

The best Marvel offering since Avengers: Endgame (2019), the film works by embracing the technicolour Americana of the comic strip original

Daniel Craig’s 007 is dead, yet James Bond will return. Can Amazon revive him without ruining everything?

No red carpets, no gaggles of reporters, no nonsense – just the chance to see all the great films you’ve missed

Rosamund Pike delivers a quite astonishing performance as a Crown Court Judge wrestling with the legal system's shoddy handling of sexual assault cases

Lena Dunham’s first major television project since Girls is so much more than the romcom it's billed as

Apocalypse Now was the one truly great Vietnam movie epic - but however mad was, it could have been a whole lot madder

A new list from the New York Times gives an insight into what actors and directors watch. But here is a personal choice

Joseph Kosinski’s F1 is a throwback to the age of the summer blockbuster in which (literally, in this case) the film was a vehicle for a true star

Sequels were once considered hack work. Can cinema go back to doing what it does best?

Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland triumphantly reanimate their dormant franchise

Losing an eye at the age of just three, his misfortune bred in him a fearlessness and restlessness

Gere is no fan of Trump or America’s current political climate. So, like an increasing number of US citizens, he left for Europe

John Maclean's spaghetti western samurai film set in late 18th-century Britain is another example of how the director's eclecticism defies categorisation

The movies used to belong to auteurs. Now the industry is mining viral meme content like Skibidi Toilet for new ideas

Ballerina is a smart and stylish John Wick universe detour that weaponises grace

The Mission: Impossible films show a man who bends the chaos of the world to his will and saves humanity. But what would Friedrich make of it all?

Jesse Armstrong’s return as writer and director of this feature-length drama has been giddily anticipated. And it does not disappoint

She had nowhere to hide but, as both documentary and book are at pains to point out, just because she wanted to be alone it did not necessarily mean she shunned personal contact

The American indie stalwart's latest film tells the story of the making of another: Jean-Luc Godard’s À bout de souffle

Vladimir Putin banned Aleksandr Sokurov’s Fairytale - and the director has retired in protest. But the power of what might be his final movie, assembled with found footage, cannot be dimmed

In Cannes, the story of a photographer killed by an Israeli air strike and a lo-fi thriller offer different visions of tragedy and retribution in the Middle East

Wes Anderson's latest project immerses us, once again, in his surreal but sincere emotional universe

The Hereditary director ropes Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone into a misanthropic failure of a conspiracy thriller

Having saved the world numerous times on the big screen, could the star be tempted to sort out the world’s problems via political office?

Why does MAGA hate Europe? Maybe they’ve just watched too many movies...

Andres Veiel’s magnificent documentary lets Riefenstahl, in her interviews, recordings and archived files, speak for herself

Is Italy’s most famous director all style and no substance?

A new documentary is a reminder that the film director and writer was a willing and eager propagandist for evil

A newly discovered, signed script for Jean-Luc Godard’s first and greatest movie, Breathless, could fetch more than £400,000 at auction

This stunning exhibition is the first London show dedicated to Utagawa Hiroshige’s prolific creativity in more than 25 years

Donald Trump swore he would face down the world – then blinked first. His aura is damaged forever