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Movies

  • Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen in Nosferatu.

    Nosferatu review – Robert Eggers’s respectful homage to a vampire horror classic

    The second remake of FW Murnau’s unofficial Dracula adaptation is handsomely shot and stylised, with a forbiddingly gruesome monster, but walks the line between self-conscious and scary
  • Unseen side … Benjamin Netanyahu in The Bibi Files.

    ‘The whole foundation is rocking’: inside the explosive film about the investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu

  • person wearing tall black hat and holding staff looks off into horizon

    ‘It’s about consequences’: what can we expect from Wicked: Part Two?

  • Moana 2 which is the second-best global launch of the year.

    Moana 2 leads record-breaking Thanksgiving box office in North America

  • Gather your wandering thoughts … Kumi Hyôdô in Remembering Every Night.

    Remembering Every Night review – drifting drama follows three Tokyo women living their lives

  • Tsai Ing-wen in a scene from Invisible Nation.

    Invisible Nation review – insightful primer for Taiwan’s complex history

News

  • Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman

    Marshall Brickman, Woody Allen’s Oscar-winning co-writer, dies aged 85

  • Rupert Grint.

    Rupert Grint ordered to pay £1.8m in taxes after losing legal dispute

  • Cynthia Erivo at the LA premiere of Wicked on 9 November.

    ‘It’s wonderful’: Wicked star Cynthia Erivo says she’s fine with audiences singing along

  • Silvia Pinal in Luis Buñuel’s 1965 film Simon of the Desert

    Silvia Pinal, star of Mexico’s Golden Age of film, dies aged 93

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Reviews

  • film still of man outside holding an alien head

    Venom: The Last Dance – messy sequel ends series with a shrug

  • This image released by Focus Features shows Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence in a scene from "Conclave." (Focus Features via AP)

    Conclave – Ralph Fiennes takes charge of tense papal election thriller

    The actor leads a top-tier ensemble, including Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini, in an entertainingly juicy adaptation of Robert Harris’s novel
  • Memoir of a Snail

    Memoir of a Snail – charming, poignant tale of troubled twins

    Sarah Snook and Kodi Smit-McPhee lend their voice talents to Adam Elliott’s ambitious animation that has a strong personal touch

  • Don’t Move – high-concept Netflix survival thriller has its moments

  • Smile 2 – gory pop star horror sequel sings a familiar tune

  • Anora – stellar turn from Mikey Madison in sex work non-love story

  • Woman of the Hour – Anna Kendrick directs an unsettling thriller

  • Brothers – throwaway madcap comedy wastes a host of stars

  • Terrifier 3 – killer clown is tooled up for third helping of gleeful gorefest

  • We Live in Time review – Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh charm in heartfelt weepie

  • Piece by Piece – Pharrell’s Lego biopic deserves to be a blockbuster

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Video & audio

  • Portrait of Andrew Lloyd with visual effect

    The man who caught his catfish; actor Kaya Scodelario on Skins, scares and sex scenes; and Philippa Perry on coping with the climate crisis – podcast

  • Photograph: Emily Badescu/The Guardian

    S8, Ep6: Richard E Grant, actor

    Joining Grace this week on Comfort Eating is actor Richard E Grant
  • Still of Al Pacino holding a gun in a black and white still from The Guardian

    Al Pacino tells the inside story of The Godfather, and Marina Hyde on Keir Starmer, the unforced error machine – podcast

    It’s hard to think of anyone who has squandered so much electoral capital, so quickly, for so little: Marina Hyde reflects on Keir Starmer’s first 100 days; and when Al Pacino bagged the lead role in The Godfather, he couldn’t believe his luck: in an exclusive extract from his new book, he recalls the making of the film that changed his life…
  • Mohamed al Fayed with Michael Cole leaving the High Court, London, following a preliminary hearing for the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed

    Marina Hyde on Al Fayed and Diddy’s enablers, the hidden life of Elizabeth Taylor, and Philippa Perry on embracing anger – podcast

  • James Earl Jones starred in a number of films, gave voice to legendary characters and won two Tony awards in a career that spanned more than six decades

    2:20

    A look back at the formidable career of James Earl Jones – video obituary

  • Alain Delon was an icon of 20th century cinema who lent his beautifully chiselled features to parts that included cops, hitmen and romantic leads, working for some of France’s greatest directors

    1:58

    Alain Delon: a look back at the actor's prolific career – video

  • Ben McKenzie being interviewed on stage

    The OC star Ben McKenzie on how crypto took over Hollywood – podcast

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Opinion

  • Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba looks at camera while making a spell with her hands

    Wicked’s green skin trigger warning may feel silly – but not as silly as those crying woke

    Stuart Heritage
  • two men in a cockpit with an inflatable pilot in one seat

    From Airplane! to The Naked Gun, Jim Abrahams was a pioneer of spoof comedy

    Stuart Heritage
  • people dancing and singing songs from the musical Wicked

    Please don’t sing along to Wicked in the cinema – it is deeply embarrassing

    Patrick Lenton
  • Curzon Hoxton cinema, London.

    Curzon Cinemas has been sold for a ‘bargain’ £3.9m – is this good news for UK filmgoers?

    Peter Bradshaw

  • ‘I miss her a lot’: Andrew Garfield telling Elmo about grief was his best work yet

    Stuart Heritage

  • Good news: there’s a new Horrible History DVD boxset out. Bad news: your children may not find it funny

    Stuart Heritage

  • Want to understand Donald Trump? Then watch macho 80s action movies

    Tom Breihan

  • A live-action version of Rugrats with CGI babies sounds nightmarish … and kind of interesting

    Stuart Heritage

  • Daniel Day-Lewis’s return to acting is welcome news – but being directed by his son might prove tricky

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Whisky growl, granite jaw and unflappable charisma: Kris Kristofferson was perfect as a lover or a fighter

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Will Ferrell’s Netflix doc Will & Harper is flawed but vital viewing for cis people

    Veronica Esposito

  • Is The Substance brilliant feminist critique or a soulless mess?

    Adrian Horton
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Interviews

  • Rachel Yoder.

    ‘I had this animal, physical desire to be with my child’: author Rachel Yoder on writing Nightbitch

  • Nightbitch director Marielle Heller and star Amy Adams at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.

    ‘That’s my own hair. I can really grow whiskers’: Amy Adams and Marielle Heller on toddlers, incontinence and Nightbitch

    The film adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s 2021 novel offers a whip-smart depiction of motherhood – and some icky body horror. Its director and star talk awful husbands, menstrual blood and canine transformation
  • Kathy Bates in Matlock.

    ‘I took one pill and my whole body was gone’: Kathy Bates on opioids, ageing and selfish co-stars

    As she stars in new legal serial Matlock, about a lawyer using people’s prejudices about older people to her advantage, the Oscar-winner opens up about surviving cancer, the Sacklers and watching herself on screen
  • Kaya Scodelario in stylish PR shot, looking up at the ceiling with her head resting on her hand

    Kaya Scodelario on Skins, scares and sex scenes: ‘I was called an English rose – it really pissed me off’

  • Richard Linklater

    Richard Linklater: ‘I’ve always had that French new wave notion – that a film should be an extension of your life’

  • Stephen Graham shot for OM

    ‘I felt like I was a made man’: Stephen Graham on working with his childhood heroes

  • Isabella Rossellini poses for a portrait during the 76th Cannes Film Festival on May 26, 2023 in Cannes, France

    Isabella Rossellini: ‘People never talk about the freedom, the lightness, that comes with ageing’

Regulars

  • Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence in a scene from Conclave.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Conclave review – Ralph Fiennes is almighty in thrilling papal tussle

  • Grand Theft Hamlet 2024; Hamlet, 2016; Hamlet, 1969; THE BAD SLEEP WELL, 1960

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best Hamlets on screen

  • Luca Guadagnino and Daniel Craig

    Week in geek
    Can DC really pull off a Sgt Rock movie with Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino on board?

  • E.T; Schindler's List; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Jaws

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… composer John Williams, master of unforgettable blockbuster soundtracks

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You may have missed

  • Austin Butler in Dune: Part 2

    Pretentious, moi?: Josh Brolin’s poetry about Dune has landed, whether we like it or not

    Stuart Heritage
  • The Flight of Bryan Press publicity film still Bryan (Jordan Renzo) inside flying machine

    ‘Nothing left except quivering protoplasm’: the man who pedalled a plane across the Channel

    In 1979 a group of neurodivergent men embarked on an epic crossing, now immortalised on screen in The Flight of Bryan
  • Paul Mescal in Gladiator 2 and Paddington, in Paddington in Peru

    Gladdington and Glicked: will these weird, wild double bills beat Barbenheimer?

    There are a lot of big movies out this November, including Gladiator 2, Paddington 3 and Wicked. So should you watch them all in one afternoon?
  • He is topless in a snowy garden, with woollen scarf

    ‘I couldn’t look away!’ The rapid, runaway rise of ridiculous Christmas romcoms

  • Russell Crowe Paul Mescal Gladiator illustration

    ‘At my signal, unleash hell!’ What the Gladiator films tell us about 21st-century men

  • Gladiator II film still<br>Paul Mescal and Director Ridley Scott on the set of Gladiator II from Paramount Pictures.

    When historians and directors clash: ‘Ridley Scott was Napoleonic – there was no doubt who was in charge’

  • Louis Armstrong leads his bandsmen and local trumpeters on arrival at the airport in Accra, Ghana on 30 May, 1956.

    Coups, colonialism and all that jazz: the film that unravels extraordinary cold war truths

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