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  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Review
    Six films to watch this week

    Alex Garland’s ‘Warfare’ is set in Iraq during the early 2000s; mobsters meet vampires in Ryan Coogler’s 1930s-set ‘Sinners’; ‘Blue Road’ is a documentary tribute to the late Edna O’Brien; ‘The Penguin Lessons’ stars Steve Coogan in a misfit blend of farce and political history; ‘The Return’ stars Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes in a tale based on Homer’s ‘Odyssey’; ‘One to One: John & Yoko’ is a riveting chronicle of the couple’s life in 1971 Manhattan — reviews by Danny Leigh and Jonathan Romney

  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Six films to watch this week
    The Penguin Lessons — Steve Coogan looks listless next to characterful co-star

    Stark political reality of 1970s Argentina and zoological farce fail to gel in glib story of an English teacher abroad

    A mournful-looking man stands in front of a class of students; on a table next to him is a penguin
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Six films to watch this week
    Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story — insightful tribute to a formidable writer

    In-depth psychological portrait encompasses a turbulent life and a history of modern Ireland and its social attitudes

    A close-up picture of a woman smoking a cigarette
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Six films to watch this week
    Sinners — mobsters meet vampires in 1930s Mississippi

    Ryan Coogler follows his Black Panther success with an audacious genre mash-up starring two Michael B Jordans

    Two men wearing 1930s clothes lean back against a car of the same vintage
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    OutlookAndres Schipani
    The ghosts of ‘poor India’ are back on film

    Satyajit Ray’s ‘Apu Trilogy’ has found a new audience with young cinemagoers more accustomed to Bollywood bling

    Young actors in a scene from ‘Pather Panchali’
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Six films to watch this week
    Warfare — tightly focused Iraq occupation drama ignores the wider picture

    Alex Garland and ex Navy Seal Ray Mendoza expertly evoke the claustrophobic hell of conflict for troops — but nothing else

    Two men wearing full combat gear stand in a kitchen with weapons raised
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Six films to watch this week
    The Amateur — Rami Malek goes Charles Bronson in improbable revenge thriller

    A mild-mannered CIA data analyst turns steely-souled killer after his wife is murdered by terrorists

    A man in a green anorak looks around a street corner
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Six films to watch this week
    Holy Cow film review — French cheesemaking drama is the good stuff

    Louise Courvoisier’s debut feature is a boisterous piece of rural realism — with a cast of enthusiastic, extremely convincing non-professionals

    A young man and woman sit opposite each other in the saddle of a quad bike, kissing; behind them is a field of cows, with open countryside beyond
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Six films to watch this week
    One to One: John & Yoko — riveting portrait of post-Beatles idealism, activism and binge-watching

    Documentary on the couple’s life in 1971 Manhattan captures their intense engagement with all things American, including TV

    A woman sits playing a piano while a man stands beside her playing an acoustic guitar
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Six films to watch this week
    The Return — Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes crackle with emotion in grand Odyssey tale

    Uberto Pasolini’s take on Homer is a stately, Shakespearean affair

  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    Review
    Mr Burton — Richard Burton origin story plays it safe

    Toby Jones combines Henry Higgins and Falstaff as the punctilious mentor who saw greatness in a Welsh schoolboy

    A middle-aged man wearing a suit and hat of the 1950s walks on a road between two brick walls; behind him, seemingly in pursuit, is a young man in a suit
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    Review
    A Minecraft Movie — big-screen game adaptation is no blockbuster

    Jack Black brings his ‘Whoah dude!’ energy to a goofy mock-adventure that’s not built to last

    A long-haired, bearded man in a pink jacket and fingerless gloves stands in a garden where everything is cuboid; he is raising one hand, with the palm facing outwards
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    Review
    Death of a Unicorn — Paul Rudd takes on magical creatures turned murderous

    Richard E Grant, Jenna Ortega and Will Poulter also star in deranged horror-comedy of macabre pleasures

    A man stands in a road in a forest wielding a tyre lever; behind him stands a young woman, and they both look shocked; in the background is a car at an odd angle and with steam or smoke rising from it
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    Review
    The Most Precious of Cargoes — animated Holocaust tale mixes severity and sentiment

    Oscar-winning maker of ‘The Artist’ Michel Hazanavicius directs a film veering from sombre grace to glaring mis-steps

    In an image from an animated film, a woman in a long dress, a coat and a headscarf walks through a snowy forest cradling a baby
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    Obituary
    Val Kilmer, actor, 1959-2025

    The star of Top Gun and The Doors was a leading man whose career was far from predictable

    A close-up of a man with a blond quiff, wearing a white T-shirt and tweed jacket
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: April
    Pieces of the action: how cinema became a showcase for watchmakers

    From Bond to Barbie, on-screen placement has long been a way for brands to stimulate emotion and promote their heritage

    Close-up view of a helmeted driver in a black single-seater race car, captured during a high-speed moment on a racetrack
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Review
    Misericordia — philosophical musing on guilt meets bedroom farce

    A young man returning to a village in southern France gets a mixed reception — and a lot of attention from the local priest

    In a forest next to a tree, a young man stands opposite an older man who wears priestly robes and carries a basket; the older man is pointing an accusatory finger at the young man
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Review
    War Paint: Women at War — overlooked artists from Bayeux Tapestry to Ukraine today

    Margy Kinmonth’s absorbing film surveys how women live through conflict — and have documented it

    A woman in white overalls, wearing a mask and goggles, sprays paint from a can on to a wall
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Review
    La Cocina — tensions boil in dazzling New York kitchen drama

    Raúl Briones and Rooney Mara simmer erotically in a film directed with ferocious brio by Alonso Ruizpalacios

    A blurry image of a restaurant shows a woman in a waitress’s uniform carrying a tray of glasses looking over her shoulder at someone in the foreground
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    ReviewTelevision
    Kill List: Hunted by Putin’s Spies — chilling documentary follows trail of persecution

    Cogent film airing on Channel 4 tonight tells nightmarish story of a Bulgarian journalist and a Russian whistleblower

    A bank of TV screens all showing the same image of Vladimir Putin talking
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Review
    The End — a full-tilt musical about civilisational collapse

    Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon serenade the apocalypse in Joshua Oppenheimer’s first fictional feature

    A woman leans over a model landscape that features the famous ‘Hollywood’ sign; behind her are paintings hung on the wall
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    Amazon.com
    Amazon taps Hollywood veterans to produce next Bond film

    Amy Pascal and David Heyman to take over after Broccoli family gives up 60-year control of franchise

    Daniel Craig, dressed in a grey suit and navy tie, exits a classic car on Roupell Street. The background features a brick building with a green door and a shopfront.
  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    Interview
    Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer on making a post-apocalyptic musical: ‘It’s much bigger than climate change’

    The director of ‘The End’ discusses getting tips from Werner Herzog and how contemplating catastrophe can make us more human

    Photographic portrait of a man in a black beanie hat, a black T-shirt and a thick black padded anorak
  • Saturday, 22 March, 2025
    Jo Ellison
    Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to woke we go

    As ‘Snow White’ shows, some fairy tales are simply irredeemable

    A woman reaches her hand up to grab an apple off a tree
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
    Hong Kong’s golden age of cinema charmed the world — and left an enduring legacy

    Populated by hawkers, lovers and gangsters, classic films expressed the melting-pot city’s soul — and are now being celebrated anew

    A young Chinese woman wearing bright red lipstick and a qipao gown stands in front of patterned floral wallpaper
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