Film

Sixty years on, are the Pink Panther films still funny?

The role of Rico in Little Caesar proved as career-defining for Robinson as Frankenstein’s monster was for Boris Karloff or Dracula for Bela Lugosi

In JA Bayona, the survivors of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 had the right man to tell their story

French Resistance spy Boulle took up writing almost on a whim – then created the basis for two all-time classic films

Unravelling the secrets of the German film-maker

Robert Redford portrayal in Three days of the Condor is eerily similar to Trump's contemporary success

Why Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest could be the weirdest Oscar-winner ever

2024 in film is set to be dominated by reboots. There's not much new under the sun

With meticulous attention to food and how it is prepared, the film’s plot embraces simplicity

Dumas’s swashbuckling classic has been filmed 50 times – but the French haven’t tried since the 1960s. Until now...

2023 went down as the year the superhero movie died. The genre has spun its last web and assembled its last avenger

A husband-and-wife team filmed a classic Polish novel, then made another film from paintings of it. Why?

How did the strange 1970s British film became a cult classic?

Wim Wenders is back with two very different films... and harsh words for Brexit

Dziga Vertov’s film changed cinema and outlasted the USSR – now it’s raising awareness of Ukraine’s fight

Ridley Scott’s epic didn’t exactly win over viewers in France

She is a one-off and her memoir reads as such

This Joaquin Phoenix epic fails to nail its big idea, or the motivation of its subject

A German’s documentary about an end-of-the-pier show in Norfolk might be the best movie yet about Brexit

Why twisty French thriller Anatomy of a Fall is tipped to win the Best Picture Oscar

The award-winning story of how a psychiatric facility on a River Seine barge helps to keep its patients afloat

The Swedish actress’s unhappy Hollywood experience prompted a lifelong questioning of what being herself actually meant

Just as paintings once juxtaposed human skulls and fresh fruit to impress upon their viewers the transitoriness of life, so Mr Cruise has become a kind of walking vanitas

Amid an explosion of young British talent, Sir Anthony Hopkins brings London’s Film Festival to tears with his performance in One Life

There are no right answers in solving this conflict. But the wrong ones are obvious

Cinema's most infamous sex scene; a shattering opening sequence and a truly unforgettable finale – Nicolas Roeg's Daphne du Maurier adaptation has lost none of its power with the passing of time

A new documentary delves into the life of the woman who outstoned the Stones

What would Walt Disney have made of the USA we now find ourselves in?

Every year, a French beauty spot devotes a weekend to UK movies. An eccentric outlier or a harbinger of a new post-Brexit entente cordiale?

After 50-plus films, documentarian Mark Cousins continues his never-ending journey into the dark

A new Netflix drama sees a 17-year-old Polish migrant return from exile in Wales to battle racism, sexism and Romany traditions

The translations of familiar film and book titles into different languages can be fascinating, comical and often downright bizarre