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  • Jennifer Salke in a red suit poses seated for a photograph

    ‘Bond’s audience will be patient’: Amazon MGM Studios’ boss on the hunt for a new 007

    Jennifer Salke, who is increasing investment in Britain, says some of the ideas floated in the post-Daniel Craig hiatus have been ‘interesting’
  • Stephen Tung (left) and Terrance Lau in Stuntman.

    Stuntman review – spirited love letter to golden age of Hong Kong’s action movies

  • Julie Depardieu with a Newquay police officer at the closing ceremony of the Dinard film festival.

    Bunting, bobbies and Doctor Who phone boxes: Dinard, the French film festival that’s mad for Britain

  • A Samburu herder in The Battle for Laikipia.

    ‘It was a challenge to film both sides’: the struggle to portray Kenya’s age-old land dispute

  • Manifestation of pain … (L to r), Rupert Turnbull (Isaac) and Julia Brown (Laura) in Daddy’s Head.

    Daddy’s Head review – a creature emerges from grief in clever British psychological horror

  • Mother and adult daughter sit on a bed, with childhood toys visible

    A Long Journey Home review – family pressures reach boiling point in a shocking documentary

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Reviews

  • L-r, Brian Tyree Henry (D-16), Keegan-Michael Key (B-127), Scarlett Johansson (Elita-1) and Chris Hemsworth (Orion Pax) star in PARAMOUNT ANIMATION and HASBRO Present In Association with NEW REPUBLIC PICTURES A di BONAVENTURA PICTURES Production A TOM DESANTO / DON MURPHY Production A BAY FILMS Production “TRANSFORMERS ONE”

    Transformers One review – animated origin tale is fun fan service

  • THE CONVERT KG 220927-424. Thomas Munro (Guy Pearce). Credit Kirsty Griffin. The Convert NZ Ltd

    The Convert review – Guy Pearce tries to keep the peace in Māori period drama

  • five people staring up at house on small grassy hill

    Salem’s Lot review – Stephen King’s small-town vampire rework lacks bite

  • GLADIATOR 2000 Universal film with Russell Crowe at right and Joaquin Phoenix<br>BADRHN GLADIATOR 2000 Universal film with Russell Crowe at right and Joaquin Phoenix

    Gladiator review – triumphant Russell Crowe proves there’s o place like Rome

  • In Her Place review – true-crime drama of a court worker fascinated by author in the dock

  • Take Cover review – Scott Adkins hitman thriller makes Fast & Furious look like Gilbert and Sullivan

  • Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot review – Sound of Freedom followup is a test of faith

  • Portraits of Dangerous Women review – dog car crash sets off baffling and peculiar drama

  • Joker: Folie à Deux review – Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga musical spirals out of tune

  • A Different Man review – Adam Pearson shines in oddball Doppelganger parable

  • Children of the Cult review – fierce doc about the Osho commune survivors

  • Young Frankenstein review – Mel Brooks monster comedy is wonderfully alive as ever

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News

  • "House Of Gucci" New York Premiere<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 16: Al Pacino attends the "House Of Gucci" New York Premiere at Jazz at Lincoln Center on November 16, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

    Al Pacino reveals he almost died of Covid – and delivers his verdict on the afterlife

  • A blue van on the set of Anemone is seen with a parking ticket on its windscreen.

    Traffic wardens issue tickets for vehicles on Daniel Day-Lewis film set

  • Renee Zellweger and High Grant in Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason.

    Hugh Grant says fourth Bridget Jones film will be ‘funny but very sad’

  • Elliott Heffernan and Steve McQueen on the set of Blitz

    ‘I wasn’t interested in Churchill’: Steve McQueen on the ‘ordinary people’ in his film Blitz

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What to watch

  • Marthe Keller starred in Billy Wilder’s 1978 film Fedora

    Time tunnels, bathing in blood and wonton soup: movies about the search for eternal youth – ranked!

  • THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, Gunnar Hansen, 1974<br>HC7WBB THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, Gunnar Hansen, 1974

    The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at 50: a brutal yet artful shock horror

    Tobe Hooper’s terrifying 1974 slasher remains one of the most effective and masterly horror films ever made
  • Sophia Loren in Legend of the Lost (1957)

    Happy 90th birthday Sophia Loren! Her greatest films – ranked

    The screen icon shows her range in roles ranging from Italian sirens to an Oscar-winning turn as a mother fleeing wartime horrors
  • A composite image of a priest, an opera singer, a woman in a club, a man and woman in an office

    From The Brutalist to Conclave: what is the state of this year’s Oscar race?

  • Keanu Reeves in A Scanner Darkly, 2006

    Keanu Reeves at 60: from surfer dude to action hero, his 20 best films – ranked!

  • close up of woman's face

    From Hard Truths to Nightbitch: 10 films to look out for at the Toronto film festival

  • A film still of a blonde man in a dimly lit room looking at the camera

    Milk & Serial: the vicious, viral $800-budget horror that’s free to watch

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Opinion

  • She sits at a typewriter in a wood-panelled office, looking contemplative

    In Her Place review – true-crime drama of a court worker fascinated by author in the dock

  • Scott Adkins as Sam Lorde in Take Cover

    Take Cover review – Scott Adkins hitman thriller makes Fast & Furious look like Gilbert and Sullivan

  • Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot

    Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot review – Sound of Freedom followup is a test of faith

  • Portraits of Dangerous Women

    Portraits of Dangerous Women review – dog car crash sets off baffling and peculiar drama

  • ‘My disability is the least interesting thing about me’: Actor Adam Pearson on fame, film and his sibling rivalry

  • ‘It’s all I think about’: Stanley Tucci on love, grief and pasta

  • 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

  • Maggie Smith was the grandest of grandes dames – and a true cinematic superstar

    Peter Bradshaw
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Interviews

  • Slugging it out … Bernal in La Maquina.

    Return of the Mexican sex bombs: Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna on their boxing comedy La Máquina

  • Adam Elliot in a black shirt in front of a wall of snail-themed bric-a-brac

    Oscar-winning animator Adam Elliot: ‘Why does everything have to be Disney?’

    The Australian filmmaker of Harvie Krumpet and Mary and Max has long cherished the deadly and deadpan. His latest stars Sarah Snook as a collector of ornamental snails – and draws from a family history of hoarding
  • “People think I must be really messed up. but I swear I’m a happy, well-adjusted human”, says Ella Purnell.

    ‘I can’t do gore and I’m not a gamer’: Ella Purnell on being an unlikely scream queen

    From Yellowjackets to Fallout and now murderous new drama Sweetpea, the British actor is killing it. But behind all the grisly roles, she’s really sweet ... honest
  • Alice Lowe as Agnes in Timestalker.

    Alice Lowe: ‘I’ve always gotten mouthy about sexism and it hasn’t really helped my career’

  • ‘It was like reliving everything’ … Shiori Ito in Black Box Diaries (2024)

    ‘Editing it was like exposure therapy’: Shiori Ito, the reluctant face of Japan’s #MeToo movement

  • Paul Simon on stage at teh Royal Albert Hall in November 2016.

    ‘I never said I was going to retire ...’ Paul Simon on disability, drive and the mystery behind his greatest songs

  • ‘It’s the last thing I wrote drinking’ … rehearsals for Reverberation at Bristol Old Vic.

    ‘I was barricading myself with alcohol’: Matthew López on the play that was too scary to stage

Regulars

  • Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in Joker: Folie à Deux.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Joker: Folie à Deux review – Lady Gaga electrifies in mediocre musical sequel

  • Shailene Woodley, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Richard Madden in Killer Heat

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best private-eye movies

  • Bane (Tom Hardy) and Batman (Christian Bale) in The Dark Knight Rises, 2012

    Week in geek
    Give us DC’s Deathstroke and Bane movie – it can’t be worse than Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

  • Monica Dolan and Kelly Macdonald in Typist Artist Pirate King.

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… British director Carol Morley, who sees the surreal in the real

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  • DADDIO, Sean Penn, 2023. © Sony Pictures Classics /Courtesy Everett Collection<br>2WNY8GM DADDIO, Sean Penn, 2023. © Sony Pictures Classics /Courtesy Everett Collection film still

    Forget the f-words, ignore the erections: how did an entire plane collectively choose to watch Daddio?

  • ‘The moments he improvised were unexpected gifts’ … Hauer and C Thomas Howell with pennies on his eyes, in the 1986 cult hit.

    ‘Rutger Hauer said he didn’t play bad guys’: how we made chiller classic The Hitcher

    ‘Rutger seemed to terrify everyone on the set and was pretty much left alone. I once went to his trailer for lunch and we sat in dead silence as he chain-smoked’
  • Two men in suits talk and walk in a corridor

    ‘I’m fine with people bashing us’: inside the controversial Trump biopic

    The Apprentice depicts the ex-president’s come up, a gamble that’s led to legal threats and Hollywood discourse
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    Post your questions for Matthew Modine

  • This image released by Neon shows Sydney Sweeney in a scene from the film "Immaculate." (Neon via AP)

    Shocks delivered: why pregnancy body horror is on the rise

  • One Hand Clapping Paul McCartney during the Backyard Tapes session at EMI Studios. London, August 1974.

    ‘The whole human condition is encased in the story’: why Beatles films just keep coming

  • Not so much eating biscuits in the small hours with the laptop, then … Ian McKellen as Jimmy Erskine in The Critic.

    ‘I filed my copy from Waterloo station loos’: the Guardian’s theatre critics assess The Critic

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Film genres

  • Stephen Tung (left) and Terrance Lau in Stuntman.

    Action
    Stuntman review – spirited love letter to golden age of Hong Kong’s action movies

  • Adam Elliot in a black shirt in front of a wall of snail-themed bric-a-brac

    Animation
    Oscar-winning animator Adam Elliot: ‘Why does everything have to be Disney?’

  • She sits at a typewriter in a wood-panelled office, looking contemplative

    Crime
    In Her Place review – true-crime drama of a court worker fascinated by author in the dock

  • Stephen Tung (left) and Terrance Lau in Stuntman.

    Drama
    Stuntman review – spirited love letter to golden age of Hong Kong’s action movies

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