Timothée Chalamet plays music legend Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s latest, which appears totally unwilling to escape the vapid biopic formula.
This anime-style journey to Middle Earth dials back on risk and charm to robustly tell a simple tale of good versus evil.
A power struggle at the heart of the Catholic church is the conceit for Edward Berger's quite silly papal drama.
This vital and deeply personal essay doc carefully dissects and dismantles age-old representations of witches.
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point is a Yuletide classic in the making, and its director has a sincere fondness for the holiday season.
The role of charismatic chancer Bug in Andrea Arnold's Bird feels like a victory lap for Hollywood's most unlikely new darling.
It’s three for three in the beloved bear franchise, as our marmalade-scoffing scamp heads off for an adventure in his South American homeland.
Clint Eastwood’s 40th film offers a morally complex riff on the tried-and-tested courtroom drama which culminates in a killer final shot.
A young sex worker thinks she's hit the jackpot when she falls for a Russian nepo baby, but his parents have other plans in Sean Baker's anti-rom-com.
Tom Hardy seems tired and confused in this comic book sci-fi sequel that hasn’t got an original bone in its alien symbiote body.
Mati Diop offers a creative and moving guide to discussing anti-colonialist action in her very fine follow-up to 2019’s Atlantics.
Following a bizarre road accident, the lives of three strangers collide in this cheerful yet meandering dramedy.
British filmmaker/actor Alice Lowe reflects on the making of her sublime and refreshingly self-critical second feature, Timestalker.
Alice Lowe’s miraculous second feature is a triumph of imagination, soul-searching and a refined comic instinct.
A conflict between indigenous communities and white settlers in a region ravaged by historical grievances and climate change is the subject of this powerful doc.
Ignore the haters – this is the kaleidoscopic, enriching, Wellsian vision of a grand old master with nothing to lose.
The dire lot of a low paid factory worker is the subject of this rigorous if hardly revelatory character study from debut director Laura Carreira.
Albert Serra’s extraordinary, intense portrait of toreador Andrés Roca Rey is one of the Spanish director’s finest works to date.
This lightweight Chabrolian country drama from François Ozon sees an elderly retiree with a complex past trying to do right by her family.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s third film of 2024 is a French-language remake of his own 1998 feature about a grim, cyclical revenge mission.
Icíar Bollaín’s tabloidy but worthwhile #MeToo drama tells of a victim of sexual abuse within Spain's local political scene.
Cédric Kahn recreates the gripping 1976 trial of political activist Pierre Goldman in this immersive courtroom drama.
Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen play estranged sisters reuniting to care for their ailing father in Azazel Jacobs’ affecting chamber drama.
James McAvoy is a blast as the overly-friendly patriarch who invites unwitting tourists back to his west country stack for fun and games.
A young woman in Guatemala takes a deadly risk to find her missing sister in Justin Lerner's tense thriller.
An abandoned CIA base in Kabul becomes a playground for the resurgent Taliban in Ibrahim Nash’at's intriguing piece of documentary reportage.
The Xenomorphs are allowed to run amok once more in this passable franchise offshoot.
Set in 2008, a 13-year-old boy undergoes the trials and tribulations of his final month of middle school in Sean Wang's directorial debut.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's magnificent latest follows the daily life of a cantankerous English teacher in a small Anatollian village.
The MCU serves up a two-hour dick joke slam in the guise of a metatextual superhero threequel. Results may vary.
Eddie Murphy hits the nostalgia circuit with this depressing, algorithmic homage to the sparkling 1984 original.
Another chunk of glossy, silly content rolls out for the Steve Carell-fronted behemoth animation franchise.
Mia Goth’s porn starlet cleans up her CV with a bloody vengeance in this underwhelming and overreaching horror threequel.
Yorgos Lanthimos returns with his merry band to explore – in triptych form – all the funny and sick ways in which we entrap ourselves inside psychological prisons of our own making.
Two bumbling hoods in Casablanca are charged with disposing of a corpse in Kamal Lazraq’s disappointing thriller.
A family of mythical beasts are observed in their natural habitat in comic portrait of animals and their instincts.
Another unwatchable slasher dirge from the IP graverobbers behind 2023’s unlikely cause celebre.
Viggo Mortensen's sombre take on the western evokes some classic Clint Eastwood films.
A visually ravishing if emotionally and thematically opaque travelogue is the latest from Portuguese maestro, Miguel Gomes.
Another lacklustre animated foray into the lasagne-smeared world of Jim Davis’ most famous comic creation.
David Cronenberg’s melancholy exploration of how we retain our connection with the dead makes for one of his most beautiful love stories.
A young tennis star refuses to open about an abusive coach in Leonardo Van Dijl’s impressive feature debut.
This ghastly musical melodrama from Jacques Audiard tells of a Mexican cartel bosses’s gender affirming surgery.
The Chinese maestro delivers his greatest film in this cut-and-paste jukebox musical melodrama.
Yorgos Lanthimos returns with another scorcher in this innovative and darkly comic trio of films about spiritual domination.
Ignore the haters – this is the kaleidoscopic, enriching, Wellsian vision of a grand old master with nothing to lose.
Magnus Von Horn brings subtlety and empathy to the serial killer genre in this extraordinary true-life yarn.
The opening film of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival offers a limp metafictional critique of the modern film industry.
Seek out this stunning, empathetic and radical British debut from first-time British filmmaker Luna Carmoon.
A rousing personal journey with Martin Scorsese through the films made under the iconic banner of The Archers.
A happily single Georgian woman is forced to reconsider her life of solitude when she falls in love in Elene Naveriani's bittersweet romantic dramedy.
The trio at the heart of Luca Guadagnino's racy tennis drama tell all about summer camp, short shorts, and their formative Guadagnino experiences.
We catch up with the Italian provocateur behind Challengers: the sports drama starring Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist, that's getting pulses raising around the world this spring.
A young couple get more than they bargained for when they translate a rare folk ballad in this effective Irish horror.
An Iranian immigrant in Sweden seeks solace in their national wrestling team in this riveting story of internal torture.
Yorgos Lanthimos, David Cronenberg and Francis Ford Coppola roll out for France's premiere film jamboree.
On the occasion of his highly anticipated and long-awaited fourth feature film, we receive an audience with the master of Spanish cinema, who reflects on the long journey that Close Your Eyes had.
The legendary Spanish filmmaker returns with his first feature film in 32 years, which centres on the strange case of an actor who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
A surprisingly entertaining showdown sequel which opts for no funny stuff and doing the simple things well.
A Liberian refugee attempts to rebuild her life with the assistance of a sunny American tour guide in Anthony Chen's scattered drama.
A mental health nurse struggling to come to terms with traumatic events from her past falls in love with one of her patients in Sacha Polak's tough but honest drama.
A high school student embarks on a bizarro road trip through contemporary America in Sean Price William's idiosyncratic feature debut.
The worst criminals in the world find deeper meaning in their lives in this hilarious odyssey from Rodrigo Moreno.
The always excellent duo Joe Lawlor and Christine Malloy create a tense, gripping portrait of Rose Dugdale, who left behind a life of privilege to become a key figure in the IRA.
Shoddy, rushed sequel that rides ramshod over past glories without offering anything new and exciting to this stale franchise.
Alice Lowe’s miraculous second feature is a triumph of imagination, soul-searching and a refined comic instinct.
Kevin Macdonald gives his subject enough rope in this slippery documentary about how we project a sense of regret.
Olivia Colman is hampered by thin material in this overly-quaint parochial Britcom which contains a fair bit of swearing.
How the Oscar-nominated Perfect Days sees the globe-trotting German filmmaker in unison with his surroundings in the Japanese capital.
Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya shine as mystical freedom fighters in this grandiose and often-breathtaking blockbuster.
This delightful anthropological comedy from the Zellner brothers documents an eventful year in the life of four ambling Sasqatch.
Isabelle Huppert proves she’s one of the great comic performers in this delightfully meandering character piece from Hong Sang-soo.
Olivier Assayas offers a wistful, meandering and amusingly philosophical exploration of life during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Author and regular Claire Denis collaborator Christine Angot creates a harrowing portrait of a family collectively suppressing its traumas.
Mati Diop offers a creative and moving guide to discussing anti-colonialist action in her very fine follow-up to 2019’s Atlantics.
A lunatic piece of sci-fi social realism in which Bruno Dumont brings flying churches and sexed-up aliens to France's Opal Coast.
Annette Bening plays the real-life marathon swimmer in this feelgood drama that documents her attempts to cross the Straits of Florida.
Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel play late 19th century gourmets in Tran Ahn Hung’s scintillating epic of proto-foodie passions.
An ultra-conventional jukebox biog where a celebration of the music trumps a true exploration of the man.
This haunting debut by Felipe Gálvez Haberle dismantles the violent colonial trappings of the classic western.
Jeffrey Wright shines in a bold contemporary arts satire that doesn’t quite manage to hit all of its targets.
A ripe set-up in which a family of ducks migrate in the wrong direction is squandered in this haphazard and empty family animation.
The latest from British non-fiction filmmaker Marc Issacs offers an ethereal cross-cut of working class lives in deepest Essex.
Blitz Bazawule delivers an all singing, all dancing update of Alice Walker’s harrowing story of women in postbellum Georgia.
A grand banquet of film has been laid out for the festival's 20th anniversary edition.
Outgoing artistic director Carlo Chatrian delivers the world cinema goods for his final edition at the helm.
The life of the idiosyncratic US sexologist is parlayed into a story of rank misogyny and violent moral conservatism.
In celebration of a BFI season of the German maverick’s sublime work in film, we pick ten of our absolute faves.
An affectionate new documentary celebrates one of London's most beloved cinema institutions and the patrons who made it mythological.
Adam Driver portrays the single-minded Enzo Ferrari in his middle-age following the death of his son Dino in Michael Mann's unconventional take on the biographical drama.
An undocumented Filipina immigrant secures a care job to provide a better life for her young daughter, but it turns out to be something more sinister in Paris Zarcilla's horror.
Aggressively unmemorable return to a garish CGI Atlantis in which Jason Momoa’s sub-aqua regent wards off another potential apocalypse.
Leo Leigh’s likeable but wonky feature debut offers a meandering trawl through the doomed love life of a mature party shop owner.
Our atomic friend returns for a runout on the battered landscape of post-1945 Tokyo in Takashi Yamazaki’s stripped back action epic.
Wim Wenders’ luxe 3D portrait of the flame-thrower wielding conceptual artist Anselm Kiefer is a dreamy delight.
Seek out this very special debut feature from Savanah Leaf about a woman navigating the bureaucratic hell of the child services system.
One of 2023’s most astonishing films comes in the form of a two-part opus about a woman drawn to mystery that takes a few cues from Twin Peaks.
In celebration of the release of Fallen Leaves, we guide you through the world of Finland’s cine-beat poet extraordinaire.
Another gorgeous tragicomic farce from Finnish maestro Aki Kaurismäki, a heartfelt cinephile ode to the possibility of love among the working classes.
Mexican provocateur Amat Escalante makes a half-cocked bid for mainstream respectability in this intriguing tale of a young man’s torrid search for his missing mother.
Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth head up this serviceable franchise prequel that divebombs into ignominy and obscurity during its protracted final act.
A woman has to stand trial after her husband dies in suspicious circumstances in Justine Triet's compelling courtroom drama.
A sentimental docu-portrait of a Chilean journalist, famed for his reporting on Pinochet's atrocities, whose own memory is leaving him.
French documentarian Nicolas Philibert returns with a gentle, deeply moving chronicle of a floating hospital in Paris.
The barroom love-tester is God in this gentle sci-fi comedy with Riz Ahmed and Jessie Buckley as working stiffs at a scientific institute for love.
The intrepid British director on being one of the first people to lay their eyes on the archives of the late artist Audrey Amiss – subject of Typist, Artist, Pirate, King.
Carol Morley constructs a creative tribute to the artist Audrey Amiss, who created thousands of artworks but remained mostly unknown until her death in 2013.
What appears as a fun robotic slasher lark turns out to be a deathly dull rip-off of various trauma-based horror yarns which fails to deliver in either the serious or silly stakes.
The very-belated reformation of US boyband NSYNC is the central hook for this day-glo second sequel to the surprisingly beloved Trolls franchise.
Martin Scorsese’s wistful remembrance of tragedies that befell the Osage nation is a film of high seriousness and low spectacle.
The famed photographer turns his hand at filmmaking with a study of extreme trauma and slow healing in The After.
Imogen Poots shines in this angular, fragmented portrait of English rose-turned-firebrand activist Rose Dugdale from Irish filmmakers Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy.
This fascinating and melancholy documentary sees an Iranian exile in London looking back to the stranger-than-fiction roots of his formative cinephelia.
Helen Mirren dons heavy prosthetics as one-time Israeli prime minister Golda Mair in this drab geopolitical retelling of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
This steamy and giddily uneven rural romance from Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet is almost saved by Laia Costa’s committed central performance.
This Greenland-set drama from Danish director Isabella Eklöf, about a husband and father dealing with the trauma of abuse, makes for oppressively grim and only occasionally revelatory viewing.
Reliable Belgian director Joachim Lafosse serves up more lurid scandal sheet fodder in this dismal tale of a wife and mother trying to sweep her husband’s vile transgressions under the rug.
Amiable American comedy of dented male egos in which Griffin Dunne’s recent divorcee accidentally crashes his son's bachelor party.
The latest from Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu comprises four salty slices of pandemic-era life which range from the outwardly comic to the overtly grizzly.
Surreally awful action spectacle which represents nothing more than the quickest route to a payday for everyone involved in its sorry creation.
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu returns with a superb social realist western with its finger on the erratic pulse of Europe.
The impish Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva returns with a sharp thriller about an influencer who turns detective after a filmmaker he's involved with goes missing.
Party hats and streamers at the ready as we celebrate our bumper birthday edition – with four stunning covers up for grabs.
Ira Sachs returns with an intimate, intense three-hander about a Fassbinder-like film director played by the great Franz Rogowski.
DC plunders the musty vaults for material and comes up with a poppy Latino riff on the boilerplate superhero yarn.
Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy reflect on matters of cultural identity in this hopscotching journey through time, space and the Irish Sea.
Penélope Cruz is in glamorous ’70s matriarch mode in this patchy Italian family saga which tries to deal with themes it doesn’t fully understand.
This combustible and relentlessly-paced biography of the “father of the the atomic bomb” is a contender for Christopher Nolan’s best film.
Mark Cousins’ analytical survey of the Hitchcock filmography draws on a strange and not entirely helpful special guest for its narration.
Fun, insidery profile doc of the creative team behind some of the most memorable album covers ever made – including Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.
A deaf Kurdish boy belatedly discovers the simple joys of communication in Edward Lovelace’s moving and politically prescient documentary portrait.
Charming, if slight Dreamworks animated feature in which a kraken hides in plain sight as a gawky teen high-schooler in the run-up to prom.
It’s an improvement on the execrable Crystal Skull, but James Mangold’s exhumation of the Spielberg adventure serial is both tame and unnecessary.
The four time Oscar-winner talks her formative connections with Stanley Kubrick and how she’s able to fulfil Wes Anderson’s unique aesthetic visions.
The maestro returns, the patented formula tweaked to blissful perfection in this witty and deeply moving exploration of the tools that we produce to help us see beyond our everyday vision.
Dionne Edwards' debut feature reconstructs the stereotypes of Black masculinity in a way that’s honest and unsentimental.
The extinction of the human race is on the table with this join-the-dots seventh entry to the apparently beloved fighting robot-based mega franchise.
The psychological courtroom thriller with the great Sandra Hüller wins the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
This humanist portrait of care, surgery and technology is Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s most overtly socially conscious work.
Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel play late 19th century gourmands in Tran Ahn Hung’s scintillating epic of proto-foodie passions.
The long-awaited return of Spanish filmmaker Victor Erice is a slow-burn marvel which climaxes in a sequence of overwhelming profundity and mystery.
Wes Anderson returns with one of his most dazzling, rich and playfully self-reflexive films to date, brought to eye-popping life by an all-timer ensemble.
Another gorgeous tragicomic farce from Finnish maestro Aki Kaurismäki, a heartfelt cinephile ode to the possibility of love among the working classes.
Martin Scorsese’s wistful remembrance of tragedies that befell the Osage nation is a film of high seriousness and low spectacle.
Brazil’s Kleber Mendonça Filho returns with this extremely charming personal survey of the grand picture palaces of Recife.
More verbose magnificence from Turkey’s Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who makes three-and-half hours whiz by with this comic portrait of an untreatable misanthrope.
Mexican provocateur Amat Escalante makes a half-cocked bid for mainstream respectability in this intriguing tale of a young man’s torrid search for his missing mother.
It’s an improvement on the execrable Crystal Skull, but James Mangold’s exhumation of the Spielberg adventure serial is both tame and unnecessary.
This deadpan philosophical crime caper from Argentina's Rodrigo Moreno is a meandering and hilarious delight from end to end.
An in-your-face and vibrant gangster comedy set on the Ukraine-Romania border about a man who powers through life and directly into disaster.
How Davy Chou’s lilting identity crisis comedy traverses the bridges and barriers that come with language.
The "Quasar of Rock" is the subject of this juicy and insightful documentary which prizes deep cultural analysis over the usual bobbysoxer hysteria.
A competitive pair of self-obsessed narcissists will do just about anything for attention in Kristoffer Borgli’s satirical feature debut.
The French superstar works in a sublimely subtle register to bring the joy and pain of One Fine Morning to the screen.
The Polynesian island of Tahiti represents a tropical purgatory for the French colonists in Albert Serra’s apocalyptic political thriller.
Lee Cronin’s affectionate, gore-caked remix of Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead offers an innovative and breathtaking model of how to exhume a beloved genre franchise.
A retired action film screenwriter falls into a coma that transforms into one of her own scripts in Martika Ramirez Escobar's debut feature.
Taron Egerton stars in this entertaining but naggingly light retelling of the story of epochal computer game Tetris and its success in the west.
Emily Watson and Paul Mescal play mother and son in Anna Rose Holmer and Saela Davis' Irish fishing village-set drama.
Pierre Földes' debut feature is an animated adaptation of a several short stories by celebrated Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
In praise of French actor Adèle Exarchopoulos who brings her sultry sensibility to a range of roles, most recently Léa Mysius’ The Five Devils.
Léa Mysius crafts an enigmatic tale about a young girl with a magical sense of smell in her auspicious second feature.
Virginie Efira delivers a sublime performance as a journalist who develops a strong bond with her boyfriend's daughter in Rebecca Zlotowski's romantic dramedy.
It’s a case of massively diminishing returns for Zachary Levi’s snap-talking teen superhero in this sequel which struggles to locate a raison d’être.
Ti West pays homage in The Wizard of Oz in the prequel to his throwback slasher X – but Mia Goth really makes this one sing.
A mother attempts to scrape together a deposit for a house over a single day in Kelley Kali and Angelique Molina’s dramatically-underpowered response to post-pandemic life.
Jesse Eisenberg breaks his dweeby typecast as a disenchanted bodybuilder lured into to a men’s rights group in John Trengove’s intriguing thriller.
The man who is Magic Mike possesses one of the most brilliant acting power moves on the block.
A few top picks from the big and brassy return of the Dutch mainstay, its first in-person gathering in three years.
A literature professor observes a court case in which a mother stands accused of murdering her child in Alice Diop's sublime drama.
Ira Sachs returns with an intimate, intense three-hander about a Fassbinder-like film director played by the great Franz Rogowski.
Ali Abbasi crafts a thriller ripped from the headlines in this story of 'The Spider Killer' who targeted female sex workers in Mashhad, Iran.
Mark Jenkin's experimental 16mm horror depicts a lone botanist on a deserted island, whose relationship with her surroundings may be an indication of something sinister at play.
Sam Mendes recruits Olivia Colman and Michael Ward for this mawkish tale of seafront woes and the healing power of movies.
This corny English-language remake of 2015 Swedish hit, A Man Called Ové, sees Tom Hanks seriously lowering his standards.
A gaudy blue folly which encapsulates James Cameron’s strength as an image-maker, but weakness as a storyteller.
Maria Speth’s intimate non-fiction epic profiles a spiky but saintly German schoolteacher and his students.
Will Smith brings stern dramatic heft to an enslaved man making a dash for freedom in Antoine Fuqua’s tonally mish-mashed action drama.
The astonishing saga of Syrian refugee-turned-Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini is effectively presented by writer/director Sally El Hosaini.
Benoit Blanc enters the canon of iconic movie characters with Rian Johnson’s second foray into whodunit (nu-dunit?) territory.
This retro-inspired Disney adventure yarn boasts lots of great, progressive ideas, but lacks in the imagination department.
Recapping the mad ’90s hospital-based horror-comedy in anticipation of its long-awaited third series, The Kingdom Exodus.
Mark Mylod's one-dimensional dark comedy serves up an undercooked feast of profoundly smug commentary.
The beloved writer-director offers up an eccentric volume that stands as testament to his rabid cinephilia.
Li Ruijun's tender, thought-provoking drama is a story about love expressed through action rather than reaction.
Underwhelming and detail-light account of the plucky Mars rover that outlived NASA’s wildest predictions.
Ahead of the release of Triangle of Sadness, we look back at the Swedish provocateur’s intriguing depiction of men.
Emma Corrin and Harry Styles star in this period romance about a love triangle, set against the backdrop of 1950s Britain.
She delivers arguably one of the greatest performances in a Park Chan-wook film, but how did Tang Wei build the enigmatic suspected murderer, Seo-rae?
The biggest surprise of this low-key horror trilogy capper is how much better it is that its crummy, cash-in predecessors.
An animated crocodile with the voice of an angel spreads New York cheer in this breezy and highly likeable family diversion.
Decision to Leave reframes the blueprint of Hitchcock’s Vertigo, but it’s not the first time Park Chan-wook has looked back to this classic-era muse.
In memory of one of cinema’s most formidable and pathfinding talents, who has died at the age of 91.
This compelling, queer-edged melodrama starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin charts the fall-out of impossible passions.
Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon deliver the dramatic goods in French master Claire Denis' nuanced exploration of married life.
Rebecca Zlotowski’s wistful character study of a woman navigating the highs and lows of middle age bursts with passion and insight.
An online porn addict becomes the target for pantomime Russian cyber crims in this twisty, London-set thriller.
Penélope Cruz excels as a preening arthouse filmmaker in this delicious satire of making art without compromise.
George MacKay plays a graffiti artist who uncovers a dark secret in Babak Anvari's effective – but distractingly ugly – new thriller.
Helena Wittman’s extraordinary seafaring anti-epic is a prime contender for the big prize at the 2022 Locarno Film Festival.
Debut director Julie Lerat-Gersant offers up a vivid character study of a pregnant teen who’s adamant to give up her baby.
Alexander Sokurov offers a collegial walking tour through limbo with Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Churchill. It’s completely mad.
A lean monster-slasher B-movie set in the Predator universe that’s a highlight of an extremely patchy franchise.
His first film since 2006’s Little Children centres on composer/conductor Lydia Tár as she prepares to record her magnum opus.
Sara Dosa’s whimsical documentary chronicles the tragic tale of dedicated volcano chasers Katia and Maurice Krafft.
The always-great Javier Bardem punches below his weight in this naggingly light comedy of workplace manners.
It’s diminishing returns for the World War Two-era scamps learning life lessons out in the countryside.
Emma Thompson and Lashana Lynch star in one of the first big movie announcements of the Autumn festival season.
The Minions scarcely feature in this screwball supervillain origin story that’s shamefully short on lols.
The German multi-hyphenate on how he’s future-proofing classics like Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas.
Come join us in celebration of the 50th anniversary of John Waters’ transcendent trash opus.
François Ozon’s adaptation of Emmanuèle Bernheim’s novel focuses on the relationship between a father and daughter.
This singular, awe-striking reenactment of an Italian cave exploration from the 1960s is one of the year’s major achievements.
The Bergman Island writer/director on the Swedish maestro, the inner lives of artists and the process of bringing dreams to life.
Albert Serra returns with an apocalyptic saga set in Tahiti in one of his most accomplished and mature films to date.
Claire Denis adapts Denis Johnson’s 1986 novel about love in a time of revolution – with fascinating, if not entirely successful, results.
Saeed Roustayi’s panoramic melodrama of a poverty-stricken Tehran family in the midst of disintegration is a knockout.
Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s humanist portrait of care, surgery and technology is one of the highlights of Cannes 2022.
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu returns with a superb social realist western with its finger on the erratic pulse of Europe.
Davy Chou’s bittersweet comedy of a Korean adoptee searching for her biological parents is powered by a dazzling lead performance.
Paul Mescal doesn’t quite nail his role as a depressed young father in this emotionally furtive debut drama from Charlotte Wells.
Arnaud Desplechin’s scintillating family ensemble charts a toxic sibling rivalry, with Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupard.
Mark Jenkin’s follow-up to 2019’s beloved Bait is the haunting tale of lonely botanist that offers audiovisual thrills a-plenty.
Léa Seydoux plays a struggling single mother in a drama that’s not to Mia Hansen-Løve’s usual lofty standards.
Emily Watson and Paul Mescal enter into a battle of mother-son wills in this gorgeously-mounted but unoriginal Irish thriller.
Michel Hazanavicius comes up short in his underpowered remake of Shinichirou Ueda’s zom-com, One Cut of the Dead
The Argentinian enfant terrible on death, sex, his mature new film Vortex and why making TV shows isn’t worth his freedom.
Leah Purcell writes, directs and stars in this violent psychological western about a Bushwoman defending her lonesome patch.
Leila Latif slinks into the presenting hot seat of LWLies’ weekly film review podcast.
Audrey Diwan’s significant and unflinching adaptation of Annie Erneux’s memoir of a teen abortion is one of the year’s best films.
They’ll be joined by fellow luminaries Alex Garland and Pietro Marcello when the Quinzaine returns to Cannes next month.
This year’s stacked line-up also includes new work Kelly Reichardt, Ruben Ostlünd and Park Chan-wook – but no David Lynch.
A Bolivian miner with a terminal lung disease searches for salvation in Kiro Russo's psychedelic latest.
Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen team up to foil a Nazi plot in this likeable World War Two caper.
Arthur Harari charts the remarkable story of Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda, who refused to surrender at the end of World War Two.
The director of Compartment No. 6 on the joys of filming on location – in this case, a vintage passenger train.
This magnificent mid-century memory piece from Richard Linklater is up there with the director’s finest films.
Dashed-off sequel to the 2020 hit which makes the Chipmunks films look like Tarkovsky by comparison.
Austen McCowan and Will Hewitt’s warmly moving portrait of a lovestruck comic artist with an inoperable brain tumour.
Members of the LWLies team write on their favourite moments from the 2022 Best Picture contenders.
Catarina Vasconcelos’ hybrid documentary explores family lineage in an inventive and soulful manner.
Roger Michell’s swansong is a fittingly wholesome and heartwarming caper, an ode to Ealingesque whimsy and charm.
Channing Tatum stars and co-directs this highly pleasurable canine road movie with a few neat tricks up its sleeve.
This aimless and thin family portrait set in ’80s Paris is boosted by an affecting turn from Charlotte Gainsbourg.
The latest from French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie is an eccentric urban farce combining true love and terrorism.
Femininity, pathos, generational trauma and collective memory converge in Pedro Almodóvar’s latest masterpiece.
Romola Garai’s feature directorial debut is a haunting feminist revenge horror that upturns genre tropes and flouts convention.
We’re hitting the San Fernando Valley hard for Paul Thomas Anderson’s laid back summertime romance.
Newcomers Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman shine in Paul Thomas Anderson’s most purely pleasurable film to date.
Steven Spielberg comes a-cropper in this stiff and soulless revamp of the classic Leonard Bernstein barnstormer.
The annual Frames of Representation festival at London’s ICA cinema makes the case for film as a more inclusive medium.
An atmospheric tale of toxic masculinity in Tudor England from writer Laura Turner and director Philip Stevens.
This captivating, emotionally eloquent Haruki Murakami adaptation is one of 2021’s must-see movies.
First-time director Amjad Abu Alala’s meditative drama concerns an existential prophecy in a Sudanese village.
Paul Schrader continues his God’s Lonely Man project with Oscar Isaac in-tow as a tormented professional poker player.
Chloé Zhao remixes the Marvel Cinematic Universe template with this ethereal take on the classic superhero saga.
Kristen Stewart is the saving grace of director Pablo Larraín’s slow-paced and inert biopic of Princess Diana.
Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson stars in Rebecca Hall’s stylish directorial debut about racial identity in 1920s New York.
This exceptional debut feature from Andreas Fontana takes in a search for a missing banker in ’70s Argentina.
This time-travelling neo-giallo from Edgar Wright contains a few stunning sequences, but flubs the final act.
Timothée Chalamet excels as space prince Paul Atreides in Denis Villeneuve’s spectacular widescreen epic.
debbie tucker green adapts her own stage play to create a radical study of racial discourse in contemporary society.
This gentle sex comedy set among a Tibetan rural community explores intimacy, family and the hardships of life.
A young woman tracks down her biological mother in Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy’s gripping study of trauma and identity.
The searing French takes home the top prize, plus all the other winners from this year’s awards ceremony.
Audrey Divan’s lacerating and necessary drama follows a young student seeking a clandestine abortion in 1960s France.
Edgar Wright’s lively London-set giallo, starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Thomasin McKenzie, fails to deliver on its fascinating premise.
Big laughs and searing insights into the artistic process power this highly enjoyable film world satire.
This unique journey to the centre of the earth is a stunning highlight of the 2021 Venice Film Festival.
Timothée Chalamet brings a commanding central presence to this stirring new adaptation of Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’.
Kristen Stewart excels in this psychological portrait of Princess Diana, but a heavy-handed script lets things down.
It’s Taxi Driver with poker chips in Paul Schrader’s phenomenally entertaining existential thriller.
Paolo Sorrentino gets personal in this hit-and-miss tale of a world-famous footballer and a filmmaker’s creative birth.
Pedro Almodóvar delivers yet another major late work, with Penélope Cruz on career-best form.
Pack your stillsuits, we’re going to Arrakis for our special 90th edition dedicated to Denis Villeneuve’s Dune.
They’ll be joined by big names and exciting new talent, including Pedro Almodóvar, Ana Lily Amirpour and Pablo Larraín.
A Syrian musician relocates to a remote Scottish island in Ben Sharrock’s comedy-tinged asylum seeker drama.
Filippo Meneghetti’s debut feature about a late-life same-sex romance hits all the right emotional notes.
Jean Dujardin becomes dangerously obsessed with a deerskin jacket in Quentin Dupieux’s slighter-than-slight comedy.
Arnaud Desplechin judiciously adapts Philip Roth’s verbose 1990 novel about an adulterous author.
Oliver Stone is at his most conspiracy-minded in this entertaining but outlandish doc on the JFK assassination.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi adapts Murukami and delivers a masterpiece study on the fickle dynamics of human emotion.
Clio Barnard returns with a social realist riff on the classic romcom, and it’s one of her best films to date.
Noémie Merlant’s fairground employee hitches a ride on the carousel of love in this sci-fi tinged romance.
Juliette Binoche excels as an undercover author in the world of low-wage domestic labourers.
Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth are on career-best form in Harry Macqueen’s poignant road movie romance.
This dire action-comedy feels like it was thrown together with a minimum of care and attention.
The great comedy actor explains how she played it straight for Aleem Khan’s moving debut feature After Love.
This miniature epic is both a thrilling extension and perfect summation of Kelly Reichardt’s cinematic project to date.
Bob Dylan’s famously misshapen and maligned rock satire from 2002 is deserving of a re-evaluation.
An aspiring writer forms an unlikely connection with JD Salinger in this ’90s set literary drama.
Silence is less than golden in this occasionally effective blockbuster sequel which trades horror for action.
This provocative, heart-on-sleeve romantic drama from Billie Piper marks the arrival of a serious filmmaking talent.
In celebration of Kelly Reichardt, one of America’s greatest working filmmakers, and her extraordinary new film.
This brooding Ukrainian road movie shows major promise for its first-time director, Nariman Aliev.
An ASMR-powered documentary portrait of the famed and eloquent ethnographer and folklorist.
There’s a touch of Gregg Araki about this formally ambitious LGBT+ drama about sex in the digital age.
Kevin Macdonald’s based-on-a-true-story Guantanamo Bay drama too often loses its dramatic footing.
Paula Beer plays a woman with a supernatural secret in this unconventional modern-day fairy tale.
Cristi Puiu takes viewers on an intellectual odyssey with this stripped-back period drama set in a Transylvanian mansion.
Spanish veteran director Fernando Trueba returns with a handsome if dramatically inert autobiography.
A stirring and fraught mother-daughter relationship is at the centre of this lively punk rock doc.
A star is born in Andra Day, the phenomenal lead of Lee Daniels’ ponderous and overlong musical biopic.
Following successful editions of Sundance and Rotterdam in 2021, the future for these events looks virtual.
Crackpot conspiracy or disturbing reality? Director Rodney Ascher investigates the murky world of simulation theory.
Carey Mulligan shines in this dour archeological drama on the discovery of the Sutton Hoo historical payload.
Scotland’s first digital-only festival is bursting with cinematic treats, including 48 UK premieres.
Last call for drinks in this liquor-lashed celebration of American bar culture from Bill and Turner Ross.
Our round-up of the year’s finest physical releases, some of which helped us through the dark times of lockdown.
This whimsical documentary traces an undercover spy mission for a doddery Chilean pensioner.
A group of exiled libertines engage in a moonlit orgy in director Albert Serra’s puckish historical romp.
Occasionally interesting, overly glossy profile doc on the fiercely independent and outspoken Pogues frontman.
Viggo Mortensen steps behind the camera for this observational drama about bridging generational divides.
The master filmmaker behind Mank on Orson Welles, Pauline Kael and realising a passion project after a 30-year wait.
Matt Dillon joins Yorgos Lanthimos for this bizarre short about a New York cellist whose life is usurped by a passer-by.
John Boyega tackles institutional bigotry within the Metropolitan Police in Steve McQueen’s searing anti-racism drama.
The Coen brothers’ classic gangland neo-noir remains one of their most potent and illusive works.
This low-key but effective tearjerker sees a young mother become caregiver to her ailing daughter.
David Fincher makes a spectacular return to feature filmmaking with this melancholy monochrome marvel.
Swedish great Roy Andersson signs off with a majestically dour rumination on the meaning of everything.
This austere artworld thriller, starring Elizabeth Debicki and Claes Bang, could’ve done with a little more humour.
A decade of hard graft across stage, screen and TV has resulted in a bone-rattling lead turn in political horror, His House.
The fragile genius of Swedish director Roy Andersson is laid bare in this intriguing documentary profile.
Garrett Bradley surveys America’s prison industrial complex through the lens of one couple’s personal struggle.
This insightful documentary reclaims the legacy of one of the most important abstract artists of the 20th century.
John Boyega astonishes in Steve McQueen’s exploration of systemic racism in London’s Met police force.
Ben Sharrock spins absurd comedy from torment suffered by those waiting for asylum to be granted.
The South Korean maestro’s first two films find human comedy in the darkest of places.
A young boy navigates a war-ravaged landscape in Czech director Václav Marhoul’s bleak opus.
This year’s scaled-back celebration mixes world cinema gems with something a little different.
The hardships of daily life in one of Paris’ toughest neighbourhoods are captured in Ladj Ly’s La Haine-esque debut.
The Australian director discusses her debut, Babyteeth, and why she’s perfectly happy making other people’s scripts.
A key episode in Mafia history is documented in this engrossing, patient and unglamorous crime saga.
Jonathan Glazer riffs on the so-called “dancing plague” which struck the French border city 500 years ago. The result is spectacular.
A moving account of a mother trying desperately to balance a scandal at work and a health drama at home.
Our latest print edition brings together two of life’s foremost pleasures.
Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams are the Icelandic bar band who accidentally make it big in this occasionally effective comedy.
A light, frisky Italian comedy about three old geezers looking to leave Rome for a more fulfilling life.
This melancholy comic character portrait of an emotionally estranged mother and son falls in its final act.
David Thewlis as a finicky health inspector is the high point of this otherwise bizarre and overwrought melodrama.
Ben Rivers and Anocha Suwichakornpong observe the local customs of a Southern Thai community.
You built home cinemas and sent us video clips of them. We watched them and wept with joy.
This Laurel and Hardy gem from 1937 reminds David Jenkins of a time when he almost died laughing.
Double, triple and quadruple crosses play a part in this lightly-eccentric gangster thriller from a Romanian great.
To celebrate the release of Moffie, we look back at some memorable queer coming-of-age classics.
A fierce blaze tears across rural Galicia in Oliver Laxe’s ruminative docu-fiction hybrid.
A scenic and idea-focused biography of one of dance’s true visionaries, Merce Cunningham.
This Irish gangland saga is powered by exceptional performances from Niamh Algar, Cosmo Jarvis and Barry Keoghan.
A measured, lightly poetic look at the life and work of one of the great modern storytellers.
A career-best Simon Pegg and a Sudanese teen movie we’re also on the menu at this year’s GFF.
Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy’s psychological thriller with a difference arrives this May.
A botanist develops a revolutionary new plant in Jessica Hausner’s sci-fi tinged social parable.
Feeble, water-logged action caper in which undersea ghouls terrorise Kristen Stewart on a deep sea mining station.
Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith are lovers on the run in Melina Matsoukas’ clumsy crime drama.
An ode to perhaps the greatest gross-out set-piece ever committed to film.
Our Jan/Feb issue pays tribute to Terrence Malick’s extraordinary World War Two drama.
Alice Winocour’s Proxima and Coky Giedroyc’s How to Build a Girl are among the highlights of the 16th GFF.
Kristen Stewart is woefully miscast in Benedict Andrews’ biopic of the late screen icon Jean Seberg.
It’s a(nother) good year to be a white man, as the nominations for UK’s premier film awards prove.
The Star Wars saga comes to a close with a story that’s big on cameos and references, but short on excitement and surprises.
Kim Longinotto’s latest documentary offers a stark, deromanticised look at the Sicilian Mafia.
Rian Johnson does his best Agatha Christie impression in this riotous, star-packed homage to the classic whodunnit.
Mati Diop announces herself as a major new talent with this Gothic-tinged romantic mystery.
With her eerie debut feature Atlantics, the actor-turned-director has delivered one of the year’s finest films.
Greta Gerwig delivers one of the great modern literary adaptations with her second feature as writer/director.
This exceptionally poor cop thriller starring Chadwick Boseman prizes leery violence over basic coherence.
The siren call of two beloved, showtune-singing Disney princesses leads to a sequel lacking in ideas, emotion and drama.
The might of Ford takes on the magic of Ferrari in this full-throttle motoring drama from James Mangold.
The true tale, tragic tale of American car engineer John DeLorean is rendered as a colourful, brash but throwaway farce.
Seamus Murphy’s globetrotting musical travelogue with PJ Harvey is a self-defeating creative exercise.
Stephen Soderbergh assembles an all-star cast to sift through the wreckage of the 2015 Panama Papers leak.
A tiresome folly that rejoins us with the characters of a mildly successful 2009 horror-comedy which absolutely no-one remembers.
The French maestro on his acerbic new film Non-Fiction and why he’s a software rather than a hardware guy.
This slow-burn folk horror set in old, weird England marks the auspicious return of talented British director Thomas Clay.
Juliette Binoche is reunited with writer/director Olivier Assayas for this sharply observed satire of the publishing industry.
A star turn from Sienna Miller powers this poignant blue-collar drama from writer/director Jake Scott.
Todd Phillips’ supervillain origin story strains so hard for seriousness and relevance that it cracks into a million pieces.
Renée Zellweger returns from the wilderness with a performance of awe-striking confidence and emotion.
This short documentary essay critiques enforced gender roles in Italy, but is very snobby in doing so.
James Gray hits the jackpot by sending a never-better Brad Pitt on a voyage of discovery to the outer edges of the solar system.
We talk to the director of 2001 comedy masterpiece Ghost World ahead of an immersive London screening and soundtrack re-release.
This tough but vital documentary depicts the savage bombardment of Aleppo from a female perspective.
As Lucrecia Martel's jury deliver their verdict, here's a rundown of all who won the big prizes on the Lido this year.
Shannon Murphy's eloquent comic debut offers a unique take on terminal illness and drug addiction.
The great Swede Roy Andersson concentrates his style to its tragicomic essence – with spectacular results.
Mass walk-outs greeted this gruelling but brilliant literary epic about a young lad’s journey through hell.
Our latest issue pays tribute to an icon of Hollywood, as played by Renée Zellweger in Rupert Goold’s beautiful new biopic.
Olivier Assayas delivers a ripping modern spy movie which peels back the layers of espionage and counterespionage in Castro's Cuba.
Steven Soderbergh's playfully ironic take on the 2015 Panama Papers scandal is a slight but enjoyable diversion.
Todd Phillips’ wannabe edgy comic book origin story falls flat on every conceivable level.
A young street dancer deals with a family trauma in a very unique way in Pablo Larraín’s enigmatic stunner.
This thin biopic of New Wave icon Jean Seberg plays out with all the depth of a magazine photo shoot.
Apocalypse Now in space, and so much more. A sad sci-fi for the ages, and finally proof that James Gray has got the right stuff.
Noah Baumbach returns with an epic comedy about the absurd and bitter business of ending a once-blissful marriage.
This very agreeable comedy from Haifaa al-Mansour sees an irate female doctor strike out into local politics.
Céline Sciamma, Marielle Heller and Athina Rachel Tsangari are all heading to the capital this October.
A hackneyed journey through rehab with Aaron Taylor-Johnson trying his best with thin material.
This tricksy documentary hybrid charts the traditions and transitions of a remote Surinamese tribe.
The romance between a street photographer and his unwilling subject plays out in this low-key Hindi charmer.
Abuse of all styles and intensities feature in this chilling crime drama from the perspective of a gangster’s moll.
A playful, philosophical and gently maudlin film which toys with the negative stigma attached to dying.
James Gray and Noah Baumbach will be joined on the Lido by Steven Soderbergh, Roy Andersson and Haifaa al-Mansour.
A young hotel maid is the captivating subject of Mexican filmmaker Lila Avilés’ bone-dry social satire.
The Japanese filmmaker’s follow-up to Shoplifters will have its world premiere on 28 August.
Directors Ewa Banaszkiewicz and Mateusz Dymek offer a unique, if not entirely successful spin on the culture clash drama.
Laia Costa and Josh O’Connor are swept up in a whirlwind romance in Harry Wootliff’s tender debut.
Stephen K Bannon builds a right wing populist movement in this intriguing portrait of a self-styled political scoundrel.
Mexican maverick Carlos Reygadas directs and stars in this lyrical, unconventional relationship drama.
The Mexican auteur reflects on Our Time whether those who create art are all-seeing creatures.
A handsome if underpowered period drama on literary lesbianism and the early career of Virginia Woolf.
This ghostly 1973 adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s short story is a masterclass of staging, acting and editing.
The Beatles’ sublime songbook is the subject of this sadly underpowered and incurious romantic Britcom.
This special, expanded edition of the magazine celebrates British cinema and contains moving illustrations.
Artistic director Miguel Oyarzun on blurring the boundary between audience and artist.
The worthy cause of asylum in Europe is the subject of this hand-wringing political drama.
Ethan Hawke gets his scream on as the bank robber who coined the first recorded example of Stockholm Syndrome.
The birth of a painting – from the building of the frame to its final sale – is the subject of this intriguing doc.
The celebrated Chadian filmmaker on A Season in France and his humane approach to depicting migrants.
A family of African refugees in Paris grapple with the asylum system in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s dismaying drama.
On the road with Bob Dylan’s ramshackle rock circus in this kaleidoscopic concert chronicle.
If you didn’t realise there are environmental and economic downsides to consuming meat, then this entry-level film is for you.
The writer/director of Son of Saul returns with a mystery thriller set around a Budapest hat emporium circa 1910.
Kids hang loose as their parents attempt to build them a new civilisation in this easygoing political fable.
A glossy, lightly superficial portrait of the American whistleblower-cum-activist Chelsea Manning.
The combustible American tennis star is picked to pieces in this mischievous French essay film.
The French actor discusses the challenges of playing French literary icon Marguerite Duras.
A perfectly calibrated central performance by Mélanie Thierry powers this dour wartime literary drama.
This ultra-glossy ‘live action’ remake of Disney’s 1992 mega hit cleaves too closely to the original to justify its existence.
Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego mix ethnography and classical genre filmmaking to vibrant, if lumbering effect.
A journey through the wondrous and terrifying cinematic cosmos of the High Life director.
The live recording of Aretha Franklin’s seminal gospel album is one of the great music documentaries.
Light romance in the west wing as Charlize Theron hires Seth Rogen to funny-up her speeches… and more.
War leads to absurd moral decline in the Ukraine in Sergei Losnitza’s pitch-dark comedy of oppression.
Porn barons, rebel poets and teen sexuality are all part of this exciting cinematic crop.
The French filmmaker and sometime MIA collaborator chats about his gangster epic The World Is Yours.
Isabelle Adjani steals this playful French gangster comedy of hoods making a hash out of a simple drug deal.
Simon Rumley’s postwar gangster flick goes out of its way to deromanticise its deplorable subjects.
Reappraising Matthew McConaughey’s maligned rom-com dark days.
The beloved French filmmaker, who has passed away aged 90, leaves behind a peerless body of work.
Patricia Clarkson is dangerously out of her depth in Carol Morley’s mind-boggling detective noir.
This beautifully scripted drama of blithe romantic connections in ’90s France is a real keeper.
The annual festival at London’s ICA presents new visions for documentary filmmaking.
Andrew Garfield disappears down the rabbit hole in David Robert Mitchell’s zany LA noir.
The director of Under the Silver Lake talks LA history, ’80s RPGs and filming down toilet bowls.
Join us on a trip to the outer-reaches of the galaxy with Claire Denis’ spellbinding space odyssey.
Richard Billingham offers a bracingly honest portrait of life in a Birmingham council flat.
An evicted Dublin family are left stranded in this deeply moving and beautifully restrained drama.
Corruption reigns free on the Israel/Palestine border in this intriguing feature from Samuel Maoz.
Married gay lawyers in Osaka fight everyday injustice in this delightful, deadpan documentary.
A Lebanese pre-teener sues his parents for having him in Nadine Labaki’s tale of poverty and neglect.
Nothing happens for a very long time in Abdellatif Kechiche’s follow-up to Blue is the Warmest Colour.
The healing power of stand-up comedy is at the centre of James Gardner’s off-kilter kitchen sink drama.
One of the most successful filmmakers of all time talks Alita: Battle Angel, Avatar and the future of cinema.
The Moonlight director sits down to pick apart his wonderful James Baldwin adaptation, If Beale Street Could Talk.
Robert Rodriguez’s latest is that rare beast: a throwback, effects-driven science fiction epic that runs on an infectious sense of fun.
Melissa McCarthy and Richard E Grant are on top form in Marielle Heller’s melancholy tale of forgery and friendship.
A full retrospective of this beloved director’s work caps off a tantalising programme.
Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie play duelling monarchs in this lifeless period piece.
Refugees and migrating crabs are the focus of this atmospheric doc which takes place on Christmas Island.
Olivia Colman is sublime as Queen Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos’ absurdist period tragicomedy.
Everyone’s favourite magical child carer is back in this strangely bland and uncatchy modern refit.
Lars von Trier is up to his old tricks in this absurdly macabre and deeply self-conscious portrait of a serial killer.
The Danish devil talks about murder, movies and his sensational new film The House That Jack Built.
Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams are unable to lift this hackneyed tale of forbidden love.
In memory of this British titan of cinema, who died at the age of 90, we resurface a fascinating archive interview.
The veteran French auteur’s Cannes-winning latest arrives in cinemas and on MUBI next month.
Romy Schneider gives her final interview in this unconventional biopic – with a cameo from Denis Lavant.
The late Soviet director’s 1998 satire is said to have inspired Armando Ianucci’s The Death of Stalin.
An ageing, world-weary assassin takes on one last assignment in this well made if unremarkable Brit comedy.
The British actor reveals her personal connection to Mike Leigh’s historical epic.
This stripped back profile of East London artist Chris Moon is leavened by a bizarre rock photographer cameo appearance.
A wandering loner is haunted by a grotesque puppet in this ambient suburban chiller from one-time comic Matt Holness.
Jon S Baird’s biopic makes you question whether the titular silent comedy duo were ever funny in the first place.
Aubrey Plaza endures a wild, weird night in Jim Hosking’s turgid follow-up to The Greasy Strangler.
The Canadian filmmaker on the making of his heavy metal psycho-horror, Mandy, and working his one of his acting heroes.
A short, sharp portrait of the trailblazing Japanese pop artist Yayoi Kusama, from director Heather Lenz.
Another deep dive into the modern fashion industry, this time on the fur coat-tails of couture expert, André Leon Talley.
The loquacious goddess of French cinema reflects on her extraordinary career ahead of the release of her new film, Faces Places.
Filmmaker Steve Loveridge takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the life and career of his close friend M.I.A.
Isabelle Huppert cameos in this sentimental coming-out story from French director Anne Fontaine.
Writer/director Chloé Zhao’s spellbinding second feature is a wistful ode to a bygone America.
Shane Black exhumes this seminal ’80s monster franchise by paying homage to the abject nastiness of the original.
Stumped on what to book for this year’s festival? LWLies are on hand to help out.
A father uses technology to find his missing daughter in the latest ‘screenlife’ thriller.
A tempestuous romance on national themes makes for chilly viewing in Pawel Pawlikowski’s monochrome drama.
Alfonso Cuarón delivers his masterpiece with this stunning social fresco centred on a house maid in 1970s Mexico City.
MUBI and LWLies present Hitchcock’s sublime chiller, Dial M for Murder, at London’s Rio Cinema.
Mark Cousins returns with an essay feature on the doodles and draftsmanship of Orson Welles.
In tandem with a big Joan Crawford retrospective, this moving noir scorcher returns to cinemas.
Neighbours go to war in this bitterly cynical Icelandic comedy about our capacity for malevolence.
A pleasantly stripped back and non hyperbolic portrait of a working landscape artist.
Kim Dong-won’s rare 2003 film Repatriation plays at the 2018 London Korean Film Festival.
We’ve teamed up with the director of Drive and The Neon Demon to bring weird cinema to the masses.
A photojournalist undertakes a truth-seeking mission from the Catholic Church in Xavier Giannoli's new drama.
The dark chasm between traditional religion and modern living is the subject of Daniel Kokotajlo’s harrowing debut feature.
A welcome re-release of Jacques Rivette’s second feature, a ferocious and lightly erotic takedown of organised religion.
A rare and troubling cinematic foray to the Dominican Republic in this surreal, rustic revenge yarn.
Despite boasting a talented young cast, Sergio G Sánchez’s creepy chamber piece doesn’t add up to much.
This reveal-all documentary about the late pop icon Whitney Huston from director Kevin Macdonald makes for compelling viewing.
A welcome re-release of Agnés Varda’s best film, chronicling the final days of a French wanderer in search of freedom.
Debra Granik’s tender story of a father and daughter living off the grid is one of the year’s very best.
The director of Leave No Trace talks about the possibility of a total disconnect from the system.
Alex Lawthor struggles to bring his underwritten lead character to life in this gay-themed teen drama from Trudie Styler.
A fully-invested Diane Kruger can’t save this reactionary trash which masquerades as a thoughtful art film.
The New York artist-filmmaker discusses her intimate new profile of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Sara Driver’s profile of Jean-Michel Basquiat doubles as a rich portrait of New York City in the 1970s and ’80s.
A female-dominated ensemble for the ages joins together for this crushing, zero-stakes heist caper.
On the life of a poverty-stricken Brazilian trans performance artist disco poet in remission from cancer.
From blockbusters like Interstellar and Rogue One, as well as various homegrown productions, cinema is now a vital part of the Icelandic economy.
Zosia Mamet stars as a wayward writer forced to confront a past romance in this underwhelming quirk-com.
The animation house behind Song of the Sea return with a timely takedown of religious fundamentalism.
Lucrecia Martel’s tale of colonial misadventure in South America is one of the great cinematic achievements of the decade.
The 2018 Cannes Film Festival saved the best for last with Nuri Bilge Ceylan's sublime literary opus.
Marital woe plagues a young couple honeymooning on the Dorset coast in this Ian McEwan adaptation.
This monumental new work from South Korean director Lee Chang-dong was well worth the eight-year wait.
Kevin Macdonald offers a rich and revealing glance back at the life of troubled pop sensation Whitney Houston.
Andrew Garfield adopts the role of pop culture gumshoe in David Robert Mitchell’s eccentric LA noir.
This poignant treatise on love at first sight is one of the best films in the 2018 Cannes competition line-up.
Another bittersweet bon-bon concerning the agreeable hum of domestic life from Japan’s Hirokazu Koreeda.
Movies and stories are everywhere in the beguiling new film by Iranian director Jafar Panahi.
This brilliant rites of passage drama from Belgium sees a trans girl fighting to become a career ballerina.
Debra Granik’s long-awaited follow-up to Winter’s Bone is a hushed masterpiece.
A bold but ultimately disastrous biography of one of the leading lights of European cinematic invention.
Obscure doesn’t even begin to cover the intractable delights of the latest cine-sortie from Jean-Luc Godard.
This eloquent and expressive gay romance from Christophe Honoré is one of the director’s finest achievements.
This miniature monochrome epic from Pawel Pawlikowski is a extraordinary piece of cinematic craftsmanship.
Embrace of the Serpent director Ciro Guerra returns with a full-bore narco saga set in rural Colombia.
Now is the time to see the challenging and moving work of this little-known German auteur.
One of the first and best haunted house movies receives a welcome re-release.
Kelly Macdonald headlines the bittersweet Puzzle, a film about competitive jigsaw making.
The French provocateur will be joined by Ciro Guerra and Debra Granik at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
A wartime book group harbours a dark secret in this sparky British drama from director Mike Newell.
Russia's Sergei Loznita offers a damning critique of his homeland with this epically joyless road movie.
Jean-Luc Godard, Spike Lee and Alice Rohrwacher are set to compete for this year’s Palme d’Or.
Western is a sensual, rustic drama which pays subtle homage to the classic horse opera, explains its German maker.
The stars of Cory Finley’s venomous chamber comedy discuss getting into their complex characters.
Anya Taylor-Joy and Olivia Cooke are a revelation in this suburban black comedy from Cory Finley.
Paddy Considine writes, directs and stars in this hard-hitting drama about a boxer who’s dealt an unexpected blow.
The stalwart British actor runs us through some of his scene-stealing career moments.
Movies are the only artform where consuming on your own is considered a faux pas. But why?
Steven Spielberg’s high-octane pop culture bonanza is hamstrung by its corny, treasure hunt plotting.
Fans of Quentin Tarantino and Jim Jarmusch will delight in Liu Jian’s animated crime noir.
This sublime teen romance evokes the heady passions that come from choosing between love and learning.
Rambo’s real-life American counterpart is the subject of this fractured, fascinating documentary portrait.
Karen Gillan tries her hand at writing and directing in this fiery but formulaic character study.
The wild and crazy cinema of Larry Cohen receives the in-depth documentary treatment that this master director deserves.
Ingmar Bergman’s first English-language feature is a lost, mid-career gem, unearthed and restored by the BFI.
Polish director Pawel Lozinski presents an immersive, intimate portrait of a mother-daughter relationship.
The master fabulist behind The Shape of Water talks sex, movies and what makes a monster tick.
The Lady Bird director espouses filmmaking as a team game and writing scripts inspired by personal memory.
Clint Eastwood cleverly restages a real-life act of heroism in this intriguing and moving docudrama.
Colin Firth heads for the open ocean in this mysterious drama from British writer/director James Marsh.
Emmanuel Gras documents one man’s daily grind in the Democratic Republic of Congo in this tough but compelling film.
Director Emmanuel Gras discusses the moral mine field of his gruelling Cannes prize-winner, Makala.
The star of Paul Thomas Anderson’s beguiling latest explains how she was able to square up with Daniel Day-Lewis.
The grim realities of life in the World War One trenches is the subject of this rousing if unoriginal tale of soldiers on the edge of sanity.
This Cannes-winning working class musical from Portugal’s Pedro Pinho is not all it seems.
The Stone Age and the Bronze Age go to war in this daffy stop-frame comedy from Aardman Animation.
Old Slowhand receives the big life documentary treatment, with slightly uninspiring results.
Frances McDormand goes on the war path in director Martin McDonagh’s sensational latest.
Bravura technique trumps narrative coherence in this garbled modern demigod saga from Hungary.
Christian Bale gives it his actorly all as a jaded cavalry gunslinger in Scott Cooper’s dour, old-timey western.
Ingmar Bergman’s enigmatic masterpiece still shines with a piercing intensity after 50 years.
Jia Zhangke’s ambitious, multi-stranded romantic epic features a stunning central turn from Zhao Tao.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest is a swooning, masochistic love story set in mid-century London. It might just be his best film...
We have teamed with MUBI and the ICA to host a 35mm screening of this true original.
Europe’s refugee crisis backdrops this unconventional family drama from deadpan master Michael Haneke.
The Austrian auteur explains why he had to create a Facebook account for his new film, Happy End.
A Brooklyn teen struggles to find his own identity in Eliza Hittman’s stirring ballad of sexual awakening.
Sono Sion deconstructs power relationships on a porn movie set in this colourful, cacophonous miniature.
Emma Stone and Steve Carell go head-to-head in this fascinating true story of sport and sexism.
Two men return from war only to be confronted by racism in Dee Rees’ vital and sprawling American epic.
The Good Time directors reveal the secret to capturing the essence of their home town on screen.
This dire sequel filled with mechanically-reclaimed comedy marks a depressing low point for Will Ferrell.
There’s magic in every single frame of writer/director Sean Baker’s spellbinding latest.
Toby Jones stars as a nervy ex-con in his brother Rupert’s Hitchcockian, council estate-set thriller.
The potency of Agatha Christie’s 1934 novel shines through the glossy, high-camp screen adaptation.
‘A Dance With Fred Astaire’ sees the critic, filmmaker and social gadfly open up his personal archives.
The friendly little bear spends some time behind bars in this fantastically delightful family sequel.
The shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho goes under the microscope in this intriguing documentary.
Sophie Fiennes offers a satisfyingly original portrait of the iconic singer, artist and occasional actor.
Andy Serkis’ impressive directorial debut is powered by the outstanding central pairing of Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy.
Superheroes go comedy as Taika Waititi brings some much needed heart, soul and humour to the Marvel universe.
Filmmaker Jennifer Brea lays herself bare in this fascinating study of chronic fatigue syndrome.
Armando Iannucci plays post-Stalinist power grabs for laughs in this chilling, frequently hilarious historical satire.
Paddy Considine’s second feature as director is powered by a clutch of big, bold and unabashedly emotional performances.
The 40th POTUS is the subject of this interesting film on a time when public relations and politics began to merge.
Michael Winterbottom attempts to engineer a new kind of concert movie. The results are pure tedium.
Denis Villeneuve tangles with Replicants in this bombastic though naggingly shallow sci-fi sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 cult classic.
The Coen brothers heroically bleak debut feature still shines over thirty years since its inception.
The star of Daphne talks likeable characters, Fleabag and seeing Nicole Kidman in the nude.
Emily Beecham puts in a star-making turn in this soulful debut feature from Peter Mackie Burns.
Two abattoir workers experience a strange connection in this intriguing drama from Hungary’s Ildikó Enyedi.
It’s Ice Man versus Super Brat in this inoffensively bland chronicle of an epic sporting rivalry.
A teenager falls into a job in a bizarre funeral parlour in this touching if macabre observational documentary.
Jennifer Lawrence is plunged into the fiery depths of Hell in this conceptual ordeal saga from Darren Aronofsky.
Maurice Pialat’s A Nos Amours is a movie masterpiece about the violence that comes from being a teenager.
Stephen King’s iconic demonic clown gets a refresh and refit – and manages to give Tim Curry a run for his money.
Filmmaker Alex Barrett delivers a gorgeous, poetic ode to this bustling and diverse city.
A perilous religious crusade through the Moroccan countryside is the story which powers this challenging existential drama.
Kathryn Bigelow returns with this expansive, rousing and overwrought cine-autopsy of the 1967 Detroit riots.
The return of the king – Steven Soderbergh is making movies again, and has delivered one of his all-time best.
French undersea explorer and educator Jacques Cousteau is the subject of the middling, unofficial biopic.
This potty-mouthed road trip from Coventry to The Hague stars Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson and some top comic bants.
A vital survey of contemporary Venezuela as seen from the eyes of a single, struggling working class family.
This poetic, deeply moving portrait of a working class Philadelphia family spans nearly a decade.
This dark, complex 1962 policier heads up a celebration of French director Jean-Pierre Melville at London’s BFI Southbank.
This stripped-back haunted doll sequel racks up a few nice jump scares, but doesn’t manage much more than that.
This ambitious shoestring psycho thriller shoots for the Moon but doesn’t quite make it off the launchpad.
Motor racing’s favourite son comes under fire in this entertainingly unflattering documentary portrait.
The sad story of jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan is revealed in Kasper Collin’s exceptional documentary.
Luis Buñuel’s 1967 classic is returning to cinemas in September.
The first slate of films from this year’s line-up has been announced.
A welcome re-release of Basil Dearden’s chilling survey of life as a gay man in London of the early ’60s.
She offers a fresh and frightening take on the comic book villain in this underrated genre classic.
The Dunkirk director reveals the challenges of transforming documented reality into an experience fit for the multiplex.
The great Jean-Pierre Leaud is at his comi-tragic best in this humanist portrait of a dying monarch.
The thinking person’s blockbuster franchise returns with big emotions, incredible effects but very little to actually say.
Two acting heavyweights of French cinema go head to head in this modest, rewarding character piece.
Terrence Malick’s dazzling romance is a film that will be talked about for decades to come.
Eduardo Williams’ striking feature debut ruminates on life and leisure in a digital world.
The veteran producer behind The Graduate and The Thing dispenses some sage advice.
An elderly widower considers ending it all in this Dickensian comic fable set in and around a Swedish housing estate.
This micro budgeted London-set comedy about aspiring actors plays too many of the same old notes.
The South Korean genre whiz behind Snowpiercer and The Host discusses his latest creature satire.
Bong Joon-ho delivers a colourful satire that questions the relationship between capitalism, food and pets.
The famed author of Ways of Seeing is the subject of this chaotic but charming doc.
He starts shooting a new sci-fi movie next month, directed by the great Claire Denis.
The director of Jurassic World skids off the rails in this bafflingly misguided kiddie revenge fantasia.
A grieving couple decide to take on the Nazis in this drab wartime thriller that’s noticeably short on thrills.
Our favourite documentaries from this year’s festival – all of which you should look out for.
Viewed today, Edgar Wright’s comic satire of small town English attitudes feels scarily prescient.
Roger Michell’s plush adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s mystery romance novel fails to leave a lasting impression.
A damsel accepts a challenge offered to her by Death in Fritz Lang’s dazzlingly inventive 1921 masterpiece.
Woody Harrelson stars in this sketchy but likeable adaptation of Daniel Clowes’ graphic novel.
London Symphony is a collage of scenes capturing the richness and poetry of life in the British capital.
The screenwriter behind this Oscar-nominated animation talks through the intricacies of her working process.
Julie Dash’s dreamy debut feature is back in cinemas in time for its 25th anniversary.
There’s magic in every stop-motion frame of this miniature gem from Claude Barras and Céline Sciamma.
A compelling story, neatly-drawn characters and an inspiring lead help this DC comic book movie to soar.
The world’s greatest film festival is over for another year, and here are all the films that received awards.
Three scenarios for who might win big at this year’s prize giving.
This cunning literary thriller from Roman Polanski intrigues rather than wows at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
Naomi Kawase channels Mills and Boon in this romance about the world of film audio description.
Corruption and vice reign supreme in Sergei Loznitsa’s punishingly bleak descent into the bowels of Russia.
Robert Pattinson slays it as a petty hood on a downward spiral in the Safdie brothers’ ace crime thriller.
This delectable French coming-of-age farce is powered by a stunning central performance from actor Laetitia Dosch.
Finland’s Aki Kaurismäki responds to the refugee crisis in typically deadpan and affecting fashion.
This delicate parting shot from the great Abbas Kiarostami is a wistful contemplation on the nature of the moving image.
A shot of pure cinematic joy from Tangerine director Sean Baker – and a big highlight of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
The new film by Michael Haneke is not happy and doesn’t have an ending. Other than that, it’s harrowing business as usual.
A light but ultimately unnecessary recreation of Jean-Luc Godard’s late ’60s from director Michel Hazanavicius.
Another quietly astounding monochrome miniature on love and other demons from the great French director Philippe Garrel.
Agnès Varda douses the French landscape with art with the help of her new friend JR in this wonderfully eccentric road movie.
A sultry and sensational performance from Jeanne Balibar fuels Mathieu Amalric’s experimental music biopic.
A welcome 2K re-release of Federico Fellini’s punishing 1951 road movie about an abusive circus strongman.
Meat is murder in Bong Joon-ho’s rollicking fantasy satire about a girl and her pet pig taking on global capitalism.
This haunting documentary takes us inside the industrial hellscape of a Gujarat textile factory.
Christ returns to Earth in the form of a Syrian refugee in Kornél Mundruczó’s overblown B-movie.
Todd Haynes returns with a kid-friendly follow-up to Carol whose parts are more interesting than the sum total.
A bizarre choice of opening film for the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, but also an invigorating and impulsive one too.
This icy Austrian relationship drama ponders how much of a battering love can take before it all falls apart.
Hope Dickson Leach announces herself as the great white hope of British film with this quietly devastating debut.
Katell Quillévere, director of the wonderful Heal the Living, reveals her tactics.
Katell Quillévéré’s extraordinary third feature follows the journey of a human heart from one body into another.
This big shiny superhero sequel delivers on expectation, but never threatens to do anything more than that.
Juho Kousmanen, director of The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki, extols the virtues of celluloid.
The 2017 Directors’ Fortnight line-up is even more tantalising than the main Competition.
The British leading lady discusses her role in the delightful Blitz-era comedy-drama, Their Finest.
Gemma Arterton gives Blighty a much-needed morale boost in this charming wartime comedy-drama.
The vampire movie gets an injection of postmodern blood in this intriguing teen drama.
Charlotte Rampling and Jim Broadbent are on typically fine form in this era-spanning drama.
Yorgos Lanthimos, Bong Joon-ho and Sofia Coppola all have films in the main competition.
The German actor reveals how she coped with being Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s muse.
The director of Raw discusses why her film is a bold expression of female sexuality.
David Tennant is perfectly cast as Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing in a film that’s as undisciplined as its subject.
An essential viewing guide to the work of this German maestro ahead of a full BFI retrospective.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s subversive romantic masterpiece returns ahead of a full BFI retrospective.
The myth of diplomacy is the key ingredient of a hot lead salad in Ben Wheatley’s wickedly funny pistol opera.
All the slick CG in the galaxy can’t save this mind-numbing sci-fi noir starring Scarlett Johansson as a femme cyborg.
The special effects in this 1995 folly have to be seen to be believed.
Angel Grove’s finest are dragged into the 21st century in this glossy, respectable reboot.
The brilliant Brazilian director of Aquarius talks about why he keeps coming back to Assault on Precinct 13.
And it’s a full-franchise reset for the iconic femme cyberpunk, Lisbeth Salander.
Terrence Malick dazzles with a metaphysical jukebox musical starring Rooney Mara and Ryan Gosling.
The Danish provocateur re-teams with a familiar face from his previous, Nymphomaniac.
This luxuriant live-action refit of the beloved animated feature sees Disney extend its recent winning streak.
Eye-watering violence is the dish of the day in this stylish though ultra-formulaic martial arts runaround.
The dramatic story of Partition in India is rendered as a glossy, light comedy in this underwhelming effort from Gurinder Chadha.
Director Kelly Reichardt returns with another brilliantly understated study of love and desire.
Steve “Flying Lotus” Ellison delivers a sick suite of gag-inducing shorts at the 2017 Glasgow Film Festival.
Angry Inuk is an intriguing documentary about the death of political nuance.
Xavier Dolan’s latest is an accidental – and excruciating – exercise in endurance cinema.
Italian director Marco Bellocchio ends an impressive run with a slick but schlocky mama’s boy melodrama.
The wistful latest from Korean maestro Hong Sang-soo is powered by an exceptional lead performance.
As Wolverine, Hugh Jackman bows out in real style in this soulful revisionist comic book yarn.
The spirited tale of three secret weapons used in NASA’s initial attempts to send a man into space.
The Pope of Trash reflects on his controversial career ahead of the re-release of his black comedy Multiple Maniacs.
Remember that title, as you’ll be hearing a lot about Luca Guadagnino’s sublime summertime romance.
Finland’s Aki Kaurismäki lights up the Berlin competition with a typically bittersweet response to the migrant crisis.
The directors of Leviathan return with a breathtaking character study of the world’s foremost sleep talker.
Polish director Agnieszka Holland returns with an enigmatic woodland-set murder mystery.
Sebastián Lelio’s follow up to 2013’s Gloria is a surprisingly inert and cliché-driven portrait of a trans woman.
Josef Hader’s mid-life meltdown comedy has just enough madcap laughs for it to pass muster.
Could this be the most nauseatingly vanilla erotic film franchise in the history of cinema?
An innocent date in the park turns sinister in this burnished experimental gem from French director Damien Manivel.
Viola Davis steals the show in this faithful stage adaptation from director Denzel Washington.
Alice Lowe explores the horrors of maternity in this blackly comic riff on Rosemary’s Baby.
The director of 20th Century Women discusses his personalised cine-poem written to his late mother.
Hollywood’s go-to false teeth guy, Gary Archer, tells the story behind seven of his finest creations.
Maren Ade’s third feature stands as one of the most brilliant comedies of the new millennium.
The man with the huskiest voice in showbiz is sadly passed, leaving behind a body of astonishing work.
Recent events have got us thinking about the most depressingly hopeless movies ever made.
In tandem with a full Scorsese retrospective, this beloved meatball opera is served up once more.
They’ve decided to bring the band back together. They really shouldn’t have bothered.
The Manchester by the Sea writer/director reveals how he creates, builds and develops his characters.
Ben Affleck directs and stars in this sprawling, ambitious and flawed east coast gangster epic.
He clashes with Brendan Gleeson in this upcoming Irish crime drama.
A new software update promises to make smartphones theatre safe for plugged-in patrons.
This inventive and emotional YA fantasy looks out how teenagers cope with depression.
We run down a clutch of the year’s finest DVD and Blu-ray purchases. Did your favourite make the cut?
Director Eugène Green mixes absurdism and sincerity in this tragidrama starring Mathieu Amalric.
Inside the hyper-charged mind of the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story director.
This searing addiction drama from director Trey Edward Shults shows a big Thanksgiving gathering going to hell.
Nate Parker’s much-hyped take on the life of revolutionary slave Nat Turner severely lacks for nuance.
A romance between two poetic giants of the 20th century is rendered in a unique and affecting fashion.
David Lynch’s peek behind the curtain of smalltown USA remains as beautiful and unnerving as ever.
Miles Teller shows off his true acting might in this solid sports drama with a twist.
The directing duo answer questions on Aladdin, Hercules and Moana.
Take the catwalk car through snowy climes with our favourite American director and star Adrien Brody.
Billy Bob Thornton’s dangerously alcoholic Father Christmas return for this cheap and cheerful sequel.
With global nationalism on the rise, now seems like the time to revisit Claude Lanzmann’s masterpiece, Shoah.
Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard are lovers in the crosswind of war in this underwhelming romantic melodrama.
Philip Roth’s 29th novel is adapted to the big screen, with intriguing rather than supremely satisfying results.
Sidney Poitier confronts violent racists in smalltown Mississippi in this sweat-dappled 1967 policier.
Paul Schrader gets silly with a ’90s-inspired crime caper which prizes stoopid fun above all else.
One half of America’s greatest filmmaking family unit takes aim at the Trump enablers.
Russian director Alexander Sokurov takes a dance with the music of time in this moving plea for saving art.
A sparkling new Blu-ray edition helps remind of this melancholy British classic from 1969.
Movie folk have taken to Twitter to express fondness for the Canadian poet.
The one-time Democratic president’s message is well worth revisiting in our troubled political times.
Abel Gance’s staggering, five-and-a-half hour biography of Napoleon is heading to cinemas and Blu-ray.
Rooney Mara, Adam Driver and Rihanna are on board, and pop duo Sparks are supplying the music.
There’s an intimate, insightful and original documentary about Richard Linklater out... And this isn’t it.
Gal Gadot gets a long-awaited solo run-out as America’s premiere superhero siren.
Director Anthony Baxter takes an ineffectual swipe at potential world leader and heartless golf course builder, The Donald.
Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander get hit by a deluge of Emotion in Derek Cianfrance’s period melodrama.
In his sprawling new work for the BBC, HyperNormalisation, Adam Curtis reveals his limited range as a filmmaker.
A spin-dried movie biopic that manages to be both playful and moving – another triumph for its brilliant directors.
A welcome re-release of John Singleton’s emotionally wrenching ghetto saga heads up the BFI’s Black Star season.
Ken Loach’s latest polemic has a vital message that’s diluted by some heavy-handed direction.
Chess gets the Disney sports movie treatment in this likeable tale of strategy and empowerment from Mira Nair.
Say hello to one of 2016’s most likeable documentary subjects, as she overcomes misogyny with angry hip hop.
Director Robert Greene explains why he won a documentary writing prize at Sundance.
This unique not-quite-doc chronicles an actor striking up a morbid relationship with her latest character.
Epically stupid faux intellectual Euro sleuthing, with Tom Hanks reprising his role as the dullest character of his career.
All hail Julian Barratt, star of this exceptional – and exceptionally silly – British character comedy.
In a year when big movies went bad, there are lessons to be learned from Gareth Edwards’ micro-budget marvel.
A dreadfully silly serial killer movie involving crotchless trousers, an all-night car wash and lots and lots of grease.
Emily Blunt stars as a tipsy murder witness in this crushingly perfunctory literary adaptation.
A grotesque Slavic fairy tale is compared to the realities of modern Eastern Europe in this intriguing miniature.
This impressive, chilling debut feature brings home-invasion horror to 1980s Tehran.
The master of the macabre hit his creative peak with this singular suburban fairy tale from 1990.
World Home Movie Day falls on October 15, so there’s still time to dig out those lost treasures.
The director of 8 Mile and LA Confidential has died at the age of 71.
The US writer/director of Love is Strange and Little Men on indie cinema, Ozu and climbing mountains.
Noah Baumbach’s survey of the life and work of Brian De Palma is riveting and highly entertaining.
We’ve picked out a selection of essential viewing from this year’s bumper programme.
Every inch of every frame in this lilting father-daughter drama by Victor Erice is calculated perfection.
Antoine Fuqua drags the beloved 1960 all-star dad western kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
A very nuts and bolts true-life police saga in which Bryan Cranston goes deep undercover to foil a drug cartel.
A stunning 4K restoration of Nic Roeg’s classic sci-fi, in which David Bowie hits stellar heights.
The always exceptional Mathieu Amalric directs and stars in this compelling literary noir.
The director’s bold and bleak cinematic vision chronicles life in World War Two-era Japan.
Cinematographer Tony Richmond discusses the making of Nicolas Roeg’s 1977 sci-fi opus.
The French actor and sometime director discusses his deliciously nasty take on a Georges Simenon classic.
The star-spangled tag team of Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander can’t save this ludicrous period weepie.
Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg lay on the old-school charm in Woody Allen’s Golden Age Hollywood satire.
Director Mia Hansen-Løve delivers something wonderful and somewhat unexpected – a film about cats.
Miles Teller and Jonah Hill are two jacked-up arms dealers in Todd Phillips underwhelming true-to-life caper.
Pedro Almodóvar is back to his very best with this beautiful, quietly devastating portrait of a broken woman.
The screen icon discusses her craft plus her upcoming roles in Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come and Michael Haneke’s Happy End.
The high-rolling times of apocryphal teen idol Conner4Real make for a maddeningly shallow movie experience.
A new poll of critics conducted by the BBC reveals 100 cinematic marvels.
Actor and filmmaker Kentucker Audley celebrates the upcoming 21st anniversary of the inspirational drama, Powder.
The poetry and horror of globalisation and manual labour are beautifully evoked in this haunting doc-fiction hybrid.
Gang warfare on the streets of Brussels is the backdrop of this flashy but unfulfilling romantic tragedy.
Warzone gadfly Moazzam Begg is the subject of this interrogative documentary about his life and times.
Check out 10 of the Spanish maestro’s most flamboyant, exuberant and downright gaudy posters.
A film in which Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu play fictional versions of themselves should’ve been better.
Abe Forsythe’s controversial new film Down Under is ruffling feathers among the Australian establishment.
Generations collide in this eccentric cookery-themed comedy drama from Japanese director Naomi Kawase.
Agnieszka Smoczynska’s The Lure raises a blood-stained middle finger to the likes of The Little Mermaid and Splash.
A 30th anniversary re-release for Alex Cox’s tragic tale of punk royalty lost to the needle.
Anna Biller’s The Love Witch offers a playful take on a genre dominated by male perspectives.
Thomas Vinterberg offers up the pros, cons and further cons of communal living experiments of the 1970s.
As America gears up for a season on the stump, we pick our favourite examples of great political oration in the movies.
This deluxe edition of Stanley Kubrick’s satirical classic comes with a top secret envelope of printed extras.
Did you hear the one about the guy who acquired a Bengal tiger and kept it in his New York apartment?
Michelle Carey, Artistic Director of the Melbourne International Film Festival, offers some vital tips to budding programmers.
The director of Attenberg returns with a biting study of the male ego in this sea-bound satire.
Very vanilla fourth sequel to the original animated smash with a major fetish for toilet humour.
This ultra conventional lesbian melodrama from French director Catherine Corsini shows that going through the motions still has its pleasures.
Guillermo del Toro choreographs a ballet with giants and offers one of cinema’s most beautiful definitions of love.
The final film by the late Polish maestro Andrzej Zulawski comes to cinemas this August.
The new Ghostbusters movie is much better than it needed to be, thanks to its stellar (and extremely charming) central cast.
This roistering profile of singer-songwriter Leon Russell finally escapes from its legal limbo.
American writer/director Alex Ross Perry returns with this superlative housebound psychodrama.
This Golden Lion winner from Venezuela offers intrigue a-plenty, but the pay off is regrettably modest.
An atmospheric, gently moving dramatisation of one man’s ocular impairment that doesn’t quite hit its mark.
The late Carol White is exceptional as a working class single mother in Ken Loach’s restored kitchen-sink drama.
The ever charismatic Penélope Cruz is sorely wasted in this ineffectual piece of tragedy porn.
Coolly precise Brit debut whose grim and grotesque take on social realism always feels too artificial.
The veteran director returns with a stark look at contemporary Britain.
Underachieving rather than awful, Alex Proyas’ cornball, CG-driven adventure is tiresomely mad.
A robust dramatic rendering of the 1971 psychological experiment conducted in a University basement.
Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley make for a likeable pairing in this breezy motoring drama.
Fire at Sea director Gianfranco Rosi on filming a rural family in their home in the middle of the migrant crisis.
Europe’s migrant crisis is brought into focus in this quietly thought-provoking documentary.
Garry Marshall’s tin-eared greeting card movie extravaganza is so bad it’s almost quite good.
Meet the director of the beautiful new film widely rumoured to be Studio Ghibli’s last hurrah.
One of Britain’s most lauded and long-serving leftwing voices gets the whistlestop biog treatment.
A vital re-release of Isao Takahata’s serene slice of rustic nostalgia with a new English language voice dub.
With his spectacular new three-part film, Arabian Nights, director Miguel Gomes proves himself to be a grand master of combining music and image.
The peerless Whit Stillman returns with an ensemble Jane Austen adaptation like no other.
The dean of American comedy cinema talks tackling (and acing) a lost Jane Austen classic.
Don’t miss this newly restored director’s cut version of Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi opus.
The Russian director’s 1979 film is being reissued as part of a new retrospective.
Jodie Foster swings for the Wall Street fat cats and misses by miles in this thin thriller which premiered in Cannes.
The director of A Separation and The Past heads to the Cannes competition with another intricate domestic drama.
Team LWLies glance back over a strong competition and pick out their hot contenders for glory.
Paul Schrader is having a party and you’re all invited with this utterly berserko Nic Cage crime caper.
The 2007 Palme d’Or winner returns to Cannes with another gripping and meticulous drama.
A ghost trapped in limbo accompanies us on a romantic road-trip, but only tedium ensues.
Once director John Carney serves up a sugary crowd-pleaser that’s too soft-centred for its own good.
Adèle Haenel turns amateur sleuth as the Dardenne brothers try their hand at the murder-mystery genre.
An all-in Kristen Stewart performance is the lifeblood of Olivier Assayas’ bold, contemporary ghost story.
Pedro Almodóvar is back to his peak with this sumptuous and remarkably subtle Cannes competition entry.
The startling, bleakly poetic debut feature from one of the movie pantheon greats, Andrei Tarkovsky.
Another stunner from Jim Jarmusch starring Adam Driver as a bus driver who pines for a life of poetry.
A poet is born in this autobiographical epic from Chilean maverick, Alejandro Jodorowsky.
One of the great Cannes competition films of recent years comes from a little-known German director.
Director Bruno Dumont invites us on a French sea-side holiday with a macabre twist.
This Brit spy thriller starring Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris is a solid calling card for director Susanna White.
An endless spiral of crime and punishment is the subject of this raw and rambling documentary.
Ken Loach returns to Cannes with a ranty anti-government, anti-bureaucracy screed. Not all of it lands.
One of the progenitors of the Romanian New Wave returns to the Cannes competition with a rambling family drama.
There’s plenty to admire in Jeremy Saulnier’s follow up to Blue Ruin. But it’s not for the faint-hearted...
The most-wanted Brit star slinks into the boots of country troubadour Hank Williams.
Tom Hiddleston showcases his flexibility as a performer by slipping into the boots of country troubadour Hank Williams.
Ben Rivers returns with a blackly comic take on the ethics of filmmaking in another country.
Stephen Frears parlays the fascinating story of this warbling songbird into a cosy, featherlight comedy.
Terrence Malick continues to inspire awe with this transcendent tale of a man looking back to past loves.
The French writer/director reveals the steps she took to make her eerie sea-side epic.
A ridiculous comedy film that may well rank as the lamest thing Ricky Gervais has put his name to.
Is this fascistic Paris Hilton vehicle the ultimate example of a so-bad-it’s-good movie?
Arielle Holmes’ miraculous lead performance in this grubby addiction drama needs to be seen to be believed.
This documentary on the decimation of the Afghan Film Archive tells a wider tale about global cultural terrorism.
This dramatised concert film from 1984 remains the late singer-songwriter’s mightiest foray into cinema.
Idris Elba gets his action man on in this solid if unspectacular Parisian genre work-out.
Drone strikes, exploding whales and a Portugal on the brink of collapse... Miguel Gomes’ astonishing latest is a new breed of movie epic.
The Portuguese writer/director on his wondrous three-part epic Arabian Nights.
A stirring, detailed and objective take on the licentious life and times of this celebrated photographer.
Hey kids! Captain America’s back, and he’s brought some lively political views with him.
Jesse Eisenberg and Isabelle Huppert lead an impressive cast in Joachim Trier’s English-language debut.
The Norwegian director of Louder Than Bombs talks us through the intricacies of his writing process.
Peter Greenaway explores the Mexican dog days of the Russian maestro. The results are typically indelicate.
Steven Spielberg, Nicolas Winding Refn and Jim Jarmusch are among those with new films at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.
Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda returns with a sensitive and quietly sublime sibling drama.
One of Japan’s best living directors tells us about adapting manga and mimicking Ozu.
The Sherlock star goes through the looking glass in Marvel’s mind-bending latest.
Meet Eugene Cernan, the last man to lay his feet on the lunar surface, in this doc on the impossibility of the American Dream.
Look out for Eiichi Yamamoto’s transgressive epic from 1973, Belladonna of Sadness.
Jacques Audiard returns with a hard-hitting immigration drama about a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior.
This originality-neutral trawl through a fairy tale fantasy world is saved by the comedy sidekicks.
This dour showcase for Australian actor Rachel Griffiths is a drama of grief and motherhood that is subtle with a capital S.
Improvised poetry slam antics are heightened by an ace comic turn from Alice Lowe.
The ever impressive Matthias Schoenaerts plays a PTSD sufferer in this taut thriller from Alice Winocour.
Where do trailers end and movies begin? Zack Snyder has the answer with his fever-pitched latest.
Meet Palestine’s only all-female motorsport team in this insightful documentary form Amber Fares.
He reinvented the comic-book movie. He filmed the unfilmable. So why doesn’t the Batman V Superman director get respect?
This turgid Afghan-based comedy will leave you wondered if Bill Murray will ever star in a good movie again.
Perfumed Nightmare is the hilarious and shocking story of extreme culture clash in the late 1970s.
Richard Linklater continues his hotter-than-hot streak with this dangerously charming fratboy freakout.
This Israeli drama from Asaf Korman offers a sensitive and probing portrait of caring for someone with disabilities.
Shailene Woodley appears bemused and bored by this crushingly lacklustre science fiction franchise.
Austrian directors Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz serve up a spine-tingling domestic horror.
Cate Blanchett is reliably magnetic as a TV news producer attempting to take down George W Bush.
Richard Gere channels the bruised (in)dignity of life on the streets of New York City in this thoughtful drama.
Could Pedro Almodòvar, the Dardennes brothers and Nicolas Winding Refn be in contention for the Palme d’Or this year?
The Hail, Caesar! star reveals how the writer/director pair put him at ease on the set of their latest triumph.
A restored 4k print of this classic Japanese war movie is coming to cinemas this April.
Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest comic creation is his most unapologetically grotesque – and least amusing – to date.
The Coen brothers return in scintillating and provocative form with this complex satire of 1950s Hollywood.
Australian director John Hillcoat assembles an A-list crack squad for this gritty by-the-numbers heist flick.
Ninety minutes in the delectable company of Blythe Danner is this rueful comedy’s chief pleasure.
Eli Roth pays homage to the cannibal exploration movie, but it’s all gore and no guts.
British director Stephen Fingleton announces himself with this thoroughly enjoyable dystopian sci-fi.
A one-time mixed martial arts champ completes her transition to the big screen with Deadpool.
From the death of gaming to online snuff videos, Holland’s premiere film jamboree delivered big time.
As director and star, Ben Stiller sleepwalks through this drab, inconsequential comedy sequel.
Feuding brothers come to the fore in this fleecy Icelandic comedy-drama form director Grímur Hákonarson.
The French maestro has died at the age of 87, and leaves behind him an unimpeachable canon of work.
The Chilean mining disaster of 2010 becomes a tacky but agreeable genre flick led by Antonio Banderas.
The necessary evil of shooting bad guys is the subject of this heinous new offering from Michael Bay.
Whit Stillman returns – and on absolute peak form – with this drastically delightful Jane Austen adaptation.
British writer/director Ben Hopkins returns with an enjoyably offbeat film industry satire.
Director David Gordon Green over-seasons this cynical political satire starring Sandra Bullock.
The director of Anchorman 2 dials back the screwball in this frisky tale of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown of 2007.
The legendary production designer reveals how he recreated the wilds of 19th century America for The Revenant.
The brilliant star of Room reveals the secret to being a good mother in the movies and how she bonded with her co-star Jacob Tremblay.
Brie Larson shines in this deceptively life-affirming drama about a young mother forced to raise her son in isolation.
The sad passing of this rock deity at the age of 69 has got us thinking about his greatest screen work.
A recent announcement confirmed that it’s one of the platform’s top performing films.
How has this grisly and graphic scrap book of middle American misery endured for nearly 20 years?
Vincent Cassel fails to deliver the goods in Ariel Kleiman’s underwhelming child soldier drama.
A behind-the-scenes look at Moscow’s famous arts institution that offers scant rewards.
Japan’s Takashi Miike is running on creative vapours in this tiring knockabout genre mash-up.
Natalie Portman has her finger firmly off the trigger in this calamitous faux feminist western.
One false move and it’s game over on the violent rapids of Great Falls in Maryland.
Alien takeovers, avenging potters and Shelley Duvall being awesome all feature in our round-up of the year’s finest DVD and Blu-ray releases.
A boy and his dog search for their missing mother in this clean-cut but extremely bland adventure yarn.
JJ Abrams delivers big time with his supremely classy and stirring addition to this cherished franchise.
War Work is indebted to the great Dziga Vertov and is available to view now on MUBI.
America’s most famous loser/dog comic strip combo graduate to the big screen with charm and ease.
Mr March of the Penguins returns with an affecting, unhysterical film about the ensuing climate disaster ahead.
The doyenne of American comedy and star of Grandma gives a lesson in poetry and swearing.
A selection wild and wonderful odysseys guaranteed to get you in the mood for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s latest.
Directors William Fairman and Max Gogarty deliver a vital exposé on a dangerous new trend within the gay community.
Ho-ho-hell no. This seasonal caper starring Seth Rogen is about as funny as Christmas cracker gag.
This Terence Davies passion project showcases an incandescent performance from Agyness Deyn.
A Pixar debut boy talks about plucking up the courage to direct The Good Dinosaur.
Dementia, patriarchy and unsanitary living are features of this tender drama on life’s twilight years.
Did we really need David Lean’s turgid, three hour epic back on our cinema screens?
From Brief Encounter to his upcoming Peggy Lee biopic, the Carol director muses on a variety of subjects.
The shining star of movies by Ozu, Naruse and Kurosawa has died at the age of 95.
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This lop-sided couture western staggers on long past what shoud've been a short, sharp run time.
Director Alonso Ruizpalacios takes us on a tour of his native Mexico City in this first-time feature to savour.
A peek inside a Milanese sculpture workshop makes for unexpectedly compelling viewing.
Troops in Afghanistan have trouble knowing the enemy in this impressive doc.
An expert yarn-spinner tells of his time on death row and the troubles of petitioning for his release.
This bittersweet summer road trip planned and orchestrated by Michel Gondry is one of the director’s finest.
Nicholas Hoult gets nasty in this lairy, sweary and utterly joyless dirge through the ’90s music industry.
Karen Guthrie turns her camera on her family and uncovers a host of strange and beautiful secrets.
Director Ondi Timoner may have over-estimated the interest of her subject in this strangely wipe-clean profile.
How come there are no people in the world of this new James Bond movie?
Stanley Nelson offers a broad survey of the militant political party.
A in-joke re-release of Robert Zemeckis’ lunatic sequel to his original time travel behemoth.
Interviews with soldiers involved in 1967’s “Six Day War” reveal the damaging effects of armed conflict.
What Jonny Greenwood did on his holidays makes for rousing cinematic statement.
The great Guillermo del Toro talks about his magnificent Gothic ghost story.
A sweet, if very slight, animated adventure which mixes the horrors with slavery with poo jokes.
The horrors of sleep paralysis are explored in a playful and provocative manner by director Rodney Ascher.
Strong moments and sincere intent can’t save Sarah Gavron’s shapeless take on the plight of the Suffragettes.
Greek actress Ariane Labed shines in this otherwise routine nautical drama of sexual self-fulfilment.
Andrew Kötting returns with another cinematic happening, this time based on the later life of poet John Clare.
The ace cinematographer also discusses his work on Brit debut feature, Catch Me Daddy.
Robert Zemeckis makes Philippe Petit’s World Trade Centre wire-walk appear as fantasy in this glossy heist movie.
Director Roland Emmerich offers a laughably tin-eared take on ’60s gay counterculture.
Lucile Hadžihalilović makes a triumphant return with this experimental surgical horror (with added starfish).
Tsai Ming-Liang and his collaborator/muse Lee Kang-Sheng have a long, deep conversation about their relationship.
Legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s ode to cultural diversity is a bustling profile of New York.
This cubist corporate musical set during the financial crash of 2008 oozes with boldness and creativity.
This big, brassy ’70s-style disaster movie wears its clichés lightly and packs a hefty emotional punch.
Michael Moore’s new movie is an example of a filmmaker with nothing valuable to say.
Ben Wheatley’s JG Ballard adaptation is a glowing cluster of stand-alone transgressions.
Sandra Bullock tears up the political scene in La Paz in David Gordon Green’s feather-light political comedy.
This country music biopic starring Tom Hiddleston is a model of thoughtful restraint.
A top-tier festival opener arrives in the form of this scattershot yet thoughtful study of grief.
This ultraviolent tale of smalltown puppy love stars Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg at their best.
Actor Steve Oram has decided to make a movie, and the results are spectacularly disturbing.
The sudden passing of the horror maestro reminds us that the fear he produced transcended the screen.
Disposable portrait of an EDM artist in ascent with a very genial Zac Efron in the lead.
The director’s own professed black sheep is his most beautiful work.
The mad Chilean maverick Alejandro Jodorowsky returns with his first film since 1990.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf explores life after revolution from the perspective of a dictator and his grandson.
Hold on to your hats… Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig return with a brisk Brooklyn neo-screwball.
Bel Powley shines in Marielle Heller’s refreshingly non-judgmental chronicle of teenage sexuality in ’70s San Francisco.
Josh Trank strips back the tired super hero template with genuinely intriguing and valuable results.
Mia Hansen-Løve’s extraordinary fourth feature is about the impossibility of beat-matching life and fashion.
The French writer/director discusses how moviemaking can be an act of pure personal expression.
Robert Carlyle’s directorial debut is a miserable, tone-deaf hash of black comic clichés.
Spectre shows just why the franchise needs to rid itself of this antiquated generalisation.
A foiled assassination plot on the life of Hitler is uncovered and examined in this lethargic historical thriller.
Orson Welles is some kind of a man in this grisly, ultra-melancholic border-town noir from 1958.
Do Ghibli and Pixar have a new rival in Irish director Tomm Moore? This stunning film would suggest they do.
A passible Welles hagiography which offers very little that you won’t easily find in an Encyclopedia.
This Japanese teen love story from Naomi Kawase is mired in emo histrionics and limp drama.
This Thatcher-era gangland classic returns to the screens via a newly restored print.
The moral minefield of Carol Reed’s The Third Man insures its place in the pantheon of greats.
More honest-to-goodness muckraking from one-man doc institution, Alex Gibney.
This neon-lit ghost story from Apichatpong Weerasethukal is another hushed adventure into the sublime.
Sir Ian McKellen is riveting in this moving and humane look at Sherlock Holmes in his twilight years.
Jason Schwartzman stars in this pointed portrait of a douchebag artist from Alex Ross Perry.
Steven Spielberg’s beloved 1993 movie is about so much more than dinosaurs.
Who picked up the silverware at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, including the coveted Palme d'Or?
The stunning pros and unfortunate cons in Justin Kurzel’s take on the Bard just about balance out.
Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-Hsien reinvents the martial arts movie, with utterly astonishing results.
Jacques Audiard follows up Rust and Bone with a nuanced and gratifying immigration tale.
Miguel Gomes dazzles and infuriates (but mostly dazzles) with a rambling love poem to his poverty-stricken country.
Brad Bird’s sparkling sci-fi blockbuster is powered by big ideas and wide-eyed inquiry.
Todd Haynes lights up the Croisette with this exemplary lesbian romance starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.
The new feature from Arnaud Desplechin is a rite-of-passage masterpiece.
The 2015 Cannes Director’s Fortnight strand opens with a magnificent miniature from Philippe Garrel.
Salma Hayek chows down on sea monster heart in Matteo Garrone’s riotous fantasy triptych.
Prepare to be floored by Christian Petzold’s masterful postwar melo, particularly for its astonishing final shot.
Carol Morley follows up the mesmerising Dreams of a Life with a tedious period drama set in an all-girls school.
Tom Hardy’s Russian accent may be a deal breaker for many watching this enjoyable potboiler.
Viggo Mortensen teams up with Argentinian visionary Lisandro Alonso to deliver one of the most singularly compelling films of the year.
The actor on football, festivals and films that ask lots of questions but don’t give away all the answers.
This Rolls Royce teen high-school movie is powered by a sparkling comic turn from Mae Whitman.
Paul Walker’s swansong is a petrolhead poem to omnipotence and the concept of God in the digital age.
Like a rain-sodden old friend, Sir Ridley’s existential space-opera gets yet another cinematic run-out.
Kenneth Branagh’s refreshing, irony-free retelling of Cinderella with Downtown Abbey’s Lily James sliding on the glass slipper.
Frédéric Tcheng documents the transitional period between creative directors at Dior in this moderately compelling fashion-world exposé.
A stunning performance by Cara Delevingne doesn’t save this ungainly examination of the Meredith Kercher murder.
The dodgy politics of this would-be comedy might have been more hard-hitting had Will Ferrell and and Kevin Hard given us something to laugh about.
The writing process comes to life in Eskil Vogt’s unsentimental exploration into a woman who loses her eyesight.
Nazi occupation in the French countryside leads to forbidden love in this so-so literary adaptation.
A sex-worker turned feminist-force-of-nature is Kim Longinotto’s guide to Chicago in her characteristically great documentary.
The mischievous indie auteur talks about the importance of shoegaze music to his new film, White Bird in a Blizzard.
The inimitable writer/director throws open the doors to The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Sameena Jabeen Ahmed is a revelation as the lead in this smart debut feature by Daniel Wolfe.
The Coen brothers’ Fargo inspires a globe-hopping, culture-clash treasure hunt in this inspired existential comedy.
Michael Mann returns with a majestic B-thriller which offers a sharp commentary on the mass digitisation of communication.
An popular uprising in Ukraine is captured by the calm, collected director Sergei Loznitsa in all its abject horror.
The amazing chemistry between the two leads of this gay NY romance is sadly brushed to the side.
Seth Rogen and James Franco topple communism with comic truth bombs in this jolly satire.
Paul Thomas Anderson charts the end of the hippy dream in this blissful gumshoe chimera.
The emotional divide between human and robot merges in Alex Garland’s throwback sci-fi chamber piece.
Jake Gyllenhaal sees his double and enters a vortex of wanton weirdness in this cold, experimental drama.
Tim Burton misses subtextual tricks in this colourful biopic of American kitsch artist, Margaret Keane.
Bill Murray plays Scrooge (again) in this sunny, (mildly) funny paean to the meaning of modern sainthood.
This old-school, undersea chiller starring Jude Law offers a sophisticated and moving exploration into the evils of greed.
Is Stanley Kubrick’s seminal 1968 sci-fi really the space opera to end all space operas?
The nocturnal activities of modern-day Wellington's vampire community are captured in this mirthless mock doc.
Edwyn Collins is the subject of this superb, affirmative documentary about regaining your musical marbles following a major health scare.
This surprising winner of the Venice Golden Lion is a quaint, amusing if not particularly life-altering slice of Italian psychogeography.
Dire, imagination-free haunted-house horror which says you should never mess with killer ghosts.
Laura Poitras’ real-life spy thriller shows how and why Edward Snowden stepped up to blow the whistle on government spying.
Air-punch inducing drama with Kevin Costner about the surprisingly fascinating sport of American Football player trading.
The director reveals how he approached adapting Gillian Flynn’s psychological best-seller, ‘Gone Girl’.
David Fincher’s trash procedural for the Twitter age taunts, tickles and, ultimately, terrifies.
This tale of a wily German child murderer from legendary director Fritz Lang is still one of the all-time greats.
Dan Stevens is a strange visitor who ends up being a dull visitor in Adam Wingard’s underwhelming genre mash-up.
Kelly Reichardt returns with an extremely cool and collected heist movie with Jesse Eisenberg and Dakota Fanning.
If you only do one thing this year, make sure you catch this shattering masterpiece by the Dardenne brothers.
LWLies meets the Belgian twosome to talk Two Days, One Night, and why their films don't have any sex scenes.
David Michôd emerges from the lion’s den and leaps directly into the furnace for his brilliant second feature.
A cast of thousands coalesce for this jolly, bloodless third sortie by those irrepressible, elderly Expendables.
Mao! Mao! Mao! Michael Cimino invites horrific ’Nam flashbacks in his gruelling ’78 opus.
One of America's most exciting young directors delivers half of a great movie with this investigation into religious cults.
A weedy Crusier is dropped into a time-switching sci-fi set-up, with undeniably interesting results.
Jean-Luc Godard shakes up the 2014 Cannes competition with a dazzling 3D dirty bomb.
Hayao Miyazaki’s brilliant swansong is a complex, swooning melodrama on aviation and the caveats of creativity.
The lead singer of Super Furry Animals heads on a whimsical adventure odyssey in search of his cultural roots.
A Rolls Royce romantic comedy set in Mumbai that rides on a delectable, bittersweet central turn by Irrfan Khan.
The Guard’s Brendan Gleeson and director John Michael McDonagh reunite to deliver one of the year’s best films.
An exceptional teen girl rises up from the slurry of humanity and goes on to mount a revolution against… you know the drill.
Tahar Rahim and Bérénice Bejo are on top form in this immaculate study of marital disharmony.
Francis Ford Coppola’s magnum opus gets a big screen outing, see it if only to be able to understand The Simpsons better.
A scintillating and quietly radical gay-cruising murder mystery set in a single, sunny location.
The modern world is a strange and beautiful place in Jim Jarmusch’s melancholy vampire masterpiece.
Whimsical futuro-romance effortlessly evolves into ambiguous, unfathomable hard sci-fi in Spike Jonze’s best film to date.
The Inside Llewyn Davis star chats to LWLies about getting into character for the Coen brothers’ latest.
Two men, operating as a single creative body. Little White Lies was offered a rare audience with the Coen brothers.
A bittersweet road movie about the joy and sadness of ageing directed by the great Alexander Payne.
Allen Ginsberg: The college years. This Daniel Radcliffe starring Beat bio is over-styled and earnest.
A glassy-eyed and ambiguous portrait of a teenage call-girl from director François Ozon.
One of the year’s most extraordinary films is an experimental documentary about North Sea fishing.
Andrew Bujalski switches gears with a lo-fi marvel that channels the spirit of Robert Altman.
The trailers were right for once – Alfonso Cuarón’s disaster movie set in space is one of the year’s best.
Don’t miss this exceptional and haunting British drama which boasts a career-best turn from Aidan Gillen.
More of the same (literally) as this time the Smurfs storm Paris, discuss racial politics and explore their sexuality.
Guillermo del Toro’s epic homage to classic-era monster movies is a triumph of consummate design and old school romanticism.
Kill List director Ben Wheatley returns with a monochrome drug chimera which won't be to all tastes.
Heists and high-fashion coalesce in Sofia Coppola’s subtle and intricate take on teen boredom and victimless crime.
Joshua Oppenheimer mixes the romance of the movies with the horror of genocide in this incredible one-off.
Richard Linklater makes it a trilogy for his beloved walkie-talkie love saga. And this one’s possibly the best of the lot.
Werner Herzog’s 1972 masterpiece returns to the big screen, which is a cause for major celebration.
Shane Meadows delivers a roistering film about extreme fandom under the subtle guise of a Stone Roses biography.
Hopes were sky high for James Gray’s lavish NY period drama, but this one left us cold.
The superhero movie gets a Dickensian meta-comedy treatment care of writer/director Shane Black.
Pedro Almodóvar returns with a gaudy, mile-high sex romp that harks back to his trashy formative years.
There’s distinctive new voice booming from Brazil (and it sounds a lot like John Carpenter).
How could a gore-flecked take on the beloved Brothers’ Grimm fairy tale turn out to be such a write-off?
The bold concept behind Cate Shortland’s wrenching Nazi downfall drama is sold short by its overblown style.
Don’t believe the anti-hype: Terrence Malick’s fractured modern love poem is a sensual marvel.
A glossy, super lightweight comedy on collegiate a capella tournaments is saved by a few stunning moments.
Dognapping! Vigilante killings! Christopher Walken's cravat! Just a few things you’ll find in Martin McDonagh’s latest.
Thomas Vinterberg’s study of a man wrongfully accused of child molestation is extremely prescient, if manipulative in the extreme.
A pair of astounding performances are the pillars that prop up Michael Haneke's formidable answer to the Hollywood weepie.
Sally Potter returns with a jumbled but heartfelt examination of teenage death anxiety in ’60s London.
French enfant terrible Leos Carax finally comes good with this sublime and surreal ode to acting, moviemaking, Paris and the whole damn thing.
This sublime Portuguese fantasia from director Miguel Gomes will likely feature heavily on best of year lists.
Alex Garland takes another sweep at bringing the infamous 2000AD strip to the screen. The results are sensational.
For his final trick, Orson Welles will deliver a fruity, funny film essay. And astonishing it is too!
Despite obvious flaws, there’s a decent amount to admire in Tim Burton’s bizarre retro horror comedy.
Wes Anderson has made a film about youth that feels like it was ripped from the overactive imagination of a 12-year-old.
Mumblecore empress Greta Gerwig dazzles in Whit Stillman’s first film in 13 years.
Peter Berg’s blockbusting board game ripoff has more rough edges than a sandpaper Rubik’s Cube.
Aki Kaurismäki’s charming people-trafficking drama gently floats into the realms of the magical.
Jafar Panahi’s extraordinary self-portrait/protest piece is the gift that keeps on giving.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s hypnotic metaphysical noir is towering, tough and very, very pretty.
If you haven’t read the book, you’ll want to. If you have read the book, you’ll want to read it again.
A glorious ode to the improbability of existence which asks us to cherish the simple processes of living and loving.
A scene of almost unwatchable violence will colour your opinion on Michael Winterbottom’s dark thriller.
Lean, empathetic and dramatically credible portrait of desperation and desire on the cider-splashed streets of adolescence.
Lars von Trier’s latest is an exercise in claustrophobic filmmaking, rife with symbolism and an unstoppable momentum.
At times frustratingly slow, The Consequences of Love could be criticised for its meandering lack of action.
Gregg Araki has abandoned his rough-around-the-edges exploitation style in favour of the dream-like textures of David Lynch.
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