Film

The Bad Sisters bad guy turns hero in William Tell – and tells us how his name is really pronounced…

As Jesse Eisenberg’s second outing as writer-director, this plangent reflection of the legacy of the Holocaust is a tremendous accomplishment

John Crowley's beautiful film doesn't shy away from the gut-wrenching reality of cancer, instead it embraces it

Many directors might not have scaled their creative heights without Ponti’s recognition that one could make daring and challenging cinema and still turn a profit

Oscar-winner Asif Kapadia on his new docu-drama and the road to dystopia

This adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel deserves – at minimum – an Oscar nomination for best picture

Has director Robert Eggers bitten off more than he can chew with a remake of FW Murnau’s 1922 classic?

This supposedly heart-warming yuletide classic is the story of a NIMBY preparing to impose a radical moral agenda on his selfish neighbours

There were huge advantages to being outside the Soviet Union, but the filmmaker's love of Russia bound him to home

Jacques Audiard’s brilliant Emilia Pérez is a musical like no other, by turns funny, tragic and thrilling

The Bibi Files paints a devastating picture of the Israeli prime minister and his family

For a woman who never desired the limelight, Silvana Mangano achieved cinematic immortality almost in spite of herself

An astounding, eccentric documentary uncovers a murky assassination plot involving Belgium, the CIA and Louis Armstrong

The troubled birth and lasting genius of Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time in America

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books

How Stephen Frears’ The Hit – the first movie based on British gangsters exiled in Spain – finally lived up to its name

Our editor-at-large's rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books

An edge-of-the-pulpit papal thriller from the screenwriter of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light offers lessons in weakness, venality and doubt

Adapted from August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork and produced by Denzel Washington, this feature is a family affair

Her young daughters grieving before a grave she didn’t occupy was not even the worst tribulation to afflict the life of the Hungarian

At 86, with a number of all-time classics to his name, Ridley Scott has earned the right to have some fun

The wisecracking writer was traumatised and transformed by her 1937 visit to Spain to support the Republican cause in the civil war

In Andrea Arnold’s feature, Nykiya Adams and Barry Keoghan present a moving performance without straying into sentimentality

The relationship between Jean Marais and Jean Cocteau was one of the great romances of 20th-century European culture

Textured and monumental, Blitz is the work of a great British director at the height of his powers

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books

Thomas Vinterberg founded Dogma 95 and changed the movie industry for ever. Is another revolution possible – and what would it look like?

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books

Joker: Folie à Deux takes music and makes it a medium for deception, pain and lethal misunderstanding

The male film director who puts powerful females first

Francis Ford Coppola’s hell-for-leather sci-fi epic was 40 years in the making and is an extraordinary film that defies convention

The surprising origins of The Prisoner of Zenda, the ultimate swashbuckling tale of derring-do