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Film

  • Hunter Schafer in Cuckoo

    Cuckoo review – stylish horror offers atmosphere with incoherence

    Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer is a convincing scream queen in this Germany-set chiller which prioritises mood over plot
  • A man surfing a barrel wave

    Crystal Voyager: the ultimate surfing film with a DIY spirit – and a Pink Floyd soundtrack

  • The human cost of prison … Daughters.

    Daughters review – heartbreaking record of girls and their imprisoned fathers

  • Radical.

    Radical review – Mexico’s heartwarming answer to Dead Poets Society makes the grade

  • Charlotte Kirk as Scarlett in Duchess, standing outside a hotel pointing a gun.

    Duchess review – sneers and smiles in noughties throwback Brit-crime revenger

  • Grey Bees (2024) by Dmytro Moiseiev.

    Missile attacks and masterpieces: Mike Figgis on the bravery of a film festival under fire in Ukraine

Reviews

  • Faraz Ayub in Sky Peals.

    Sky Peals review – eerie tale of lost souls at the service station

  • A limp bit of storytelling … Ozi: Voice of the Forest.

    Ozi: Voice of the Forest review – simian version of Greta Thunberg takes on evil corporation

  • A scene from The Weak and the Wicked film

    The Weak and the Wicked/No Trees in the Street review – tough, old school British drama

  • Less lovable? … Together 99.

    Together 99 review – quarter-century renuion for Lukas Moodysson’s Swedish commune comedy

  • The Last Human review – despair and hope for Greenland youth in crosshairs of climate peril

  • Babes review – Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau elevate Pamela Adlon’s pregnancy comedy

  • The Instigators review – Matt Damon and Casey Affleck can’t save underpowered heist comedy

  • Trap review – M Night Shyamalan’s concert thriller is a mess

  • Dìdi review – impressive Asian-American teen-angst drama takes the unconventional route

  • Werckmeister Harmonies review – Béla Tarr’s brooding masterpiece of a town sleepwalking into tyranny

  • Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie review – another enjoyably madcap SpongeBob adventure

  • My Neighbour Totoro review – Miyazaki’s supernatural masterpiece still enchants

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News

  • Happier times … Lynch at the Cannes film festival in 2002.

    David Lynch says he is not retiring after revealing he is too ill to direct films in person

  • Tom Cruise at the Olympic Games Paris 2024

    Tom Cruise to rappel off Stade de France in Olympics closing ceremony

  • Cillian Murphy at 2024 Baftas.

    Bafta introduces new prize for best children’s and family film

  • Artistic Gymnastics - Olympic Games Paris 2024: Day 2<br>PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 28: Tom Cruise on the Stands during day two of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at the Bercy Arena on July 28, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Tom Weller/VOIGT/GettyImages)

    Tom Cruise to appear in Olympics closing ceremony – report

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What to watch

  • 1985, COMMANDO<br>ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Character(s): John Matrix Film 'COMMANDO' (1985) Directed By MARK L. LESTER 04 October 1985 SSZ101431 Allstar/20THCENTURY FOX **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of 20THCENTURY FOX and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To 20THCENTURY FOX is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Brawn, bazookas and killer bots: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s finest films – ranked!

  • Composite of screen shots from summer films

    From steamy summertime romances to spring-break chaos: the 20 best films about holidays

    Cinema has often explored the break from the norm that a holiday offers. Guy Lodge gets away from it all with films from home-invasion horrors to sunny comedies
  • three side by side film stills

    From Twister to Titanic: writers on their favourite disaster movies

    As the tornado-chasing sequel Twisters arrives, Guardian writers pick the films that have stuck with them the longest
  • woman wearing white shirt and wings kisses man in knight's armor

    Shakespeare goes pop: the best of the Bard’s work updated on screen

  • 1959, NORTH BY NORTHWEST<br>EVA MARIE SAINT &amp; CARY GRANT Character(s): Eve Kendall &amp; Film 'NORTH BY NORTHWEST' (1959) Directed By ALFRED HITCHCOCK 17 July 1959 CT2771 Allstar/MGM (USA 1959) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of MGM and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To MGM is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Happy 100th birthday, Eva Marie Saint! Her best films – ranked

  • Civil War, Furiosa, The Fall Guy

    ‘Sexy, sweaty and surprising – with a really big ending’: readers’ best films of 2024 so far

  • CHINATOWN<br>FAYE DUNAWAY &amp; JACK NICHOLSON ARTWORK Film 'CHINATOWN' (1974) Directed By ROMAN POLANSKI 20 June 1974 SSS73474 Allstar Collection/PARAMOUNT **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. For Editorial Use Only.

    Chinatown at 50: has there been a greater screenplay since?

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Opinion

  • This image released by Focus Features shows Izaac Wang in a scene from "DÌDI." (Focus Features via AP)

    Dìdi is a rare thing: a genuinely great film about the internet

    Adrian Horton
  • film still of a man and a woman standing in a living room

    ‘Hold on to your seats’: how much will AI affect the art of film-making?

  • Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in Deadpool & Wolverine.

    Deadpool’s obnoxious gay panic humour is a tiresome schoolyard taunt

    Guy Lodge
  • black and white photo of a woman in a white shirt

    Difficult, fearsome, aggressive: the Faye Dunaway documentary is unusually frank

    Pamela Hutchinson

  • Post your questions for Malcolm McDowell

  • Is Tyler Perry the most frustrating man in Hollywood?

  • Shelley Duvall was a sublime and subversive screen presence

    Peter Bradshaw

  • ‘I don’t think I have that in me’: what was Lena Dunham’s abandoned Polly Pocket movie actually going to involve?

    Stuart Heritage

  • We’re all feeling sequel fatigue – but Hollywood’s giving us Shrek 5

    Sian Cain

  • Donald Sutherland was an irreplaceable aristocrat of cinema

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Unoriginal sins: why does Russell Crowe keep making exorcism movies?

    Stuart Heritage

  • Anouk Aimée: an entrancing 60s movie icon with an air of glamorous unknowability

    Peter Bradshaw
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Interviews

  • Sam Neill at home in Central Otago, New Zealand.

    The second act of Sam Neill: ‘The truth was, I didn’t know how long I had to live’

  • Richard Evans sitting in a leather armchair.

    Historian Richard J Evans: ‘I’m planning to write a book about pandemics next. I’ve had enough of Nazis’

    The author of the definitive account of the Third Reich on revisiting nazism one last time, the ongoing need to discredit Holocaust denial and fact-checking Martin Amis’s novel The Zone of Interest
  • Jeff Goldblum photographed in London June, 2024. Photographer: David Vintiner Photographer's assistants: Adam Orzechowski and Kristina Salgvik Stylist: Andrew T. Vottero Sittings Editor: Helen Seamons Grooming: Gareth Bromell at A Frame agency using Sisley Paris and 111skin Set design and build by wyliewood.co.uk All clothes prada.com

    ‘It’s foolish to mask your age. Accept it. Present it’: Jeff Goldblum on vanity, mortality and becoming a father in his 60s

    After five decades in the business, the fast-talking, finger-jabbing actor is as intense and eccentric as ever – and wondering what comes next
  • Odessa Rae (centre) with Alexei Navalny and his wife, Yulia Navalnaya.

    ‘I’m happy for everyone released, but there is also sadness’: film-maker Odessa Rae on today’s momentous prisoner swap

  • Malcolm McDowell portrait.

    Malcolm McDowell: ‘Kubrick had stewed pears and sour chicken for lunch because Napoleon did’

  • 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Los Angeles Times, January 2024<br>PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 19: Joan Chen of 'Didi' is photographed for Los Angeles Times on January 19, 2024 at the LA Times Studio at Sundance Film Festival presented by Chase Sapphire in Park City, Utah. PUBLISHED IMAGE. CREDIT MUST READ: Mariah Tauger/Los Angeles Times via Contour RA. (Photo by Mariah Tauger/Los Angeles Times via Contour RA by Getty Images)

    The comeback queen: actor Joan Chen on self-doubt, success, savagings – and a second chance at 63

  • crop of a portrait of Paapa Esseidu wearing a sky blue jacket and holding a long-stemmed white rose

    Paapa Essiedu: ‘Is this part harder than Hamlet? Yeah, it’s different gravy, mate’

Regulars

  • Deniz Celiloğlu and Musab Ekici as Samet and Kenan in About Dry Grasses.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    About Dry Grasses review – rich, engrossing Turkish epic with a twist

  • Clockwise from top left: Bande à part (1964); Ratatouille (2009); Les Misérables (2019) and Amélie (2001).

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best films set in Paris

  • Robert Downey Jr is introduced as Victor von Doom at Comic-Con.

    Week in geek
    Robert Downey Jr’s MCU return is like trying to bottle lightning twice. Can you hear the Marvel thunder?

  • a composite of four images from My Neighbour Totoro; Spirited Away; Mononoke and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… director Hayao Miyazaki, who speaks to the child in all of us

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You may have missed

  • Deadpool inside a graphical egg design, on a red background

    Un oeuf is enough: have we had our fill of movie Easter eggs?

  • Sasquatch Sunset.

    The silence is deafening: why this year’s environmental films are nonverbal

    From Hundreds of Beavers to In a Violent Nature and Sasquatch Sunset, all have chosen to limit or refrain from dialogue to bring audiences closer to those that cannot speak for themselves
  • 2024 Comic-Con International: San Diego - Marvel Studios Panel<br>SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 27: Robert Downey Jr. speaks onstage at the Marvel Studios Panel during 2024 Comic-Con International at San Diego Convention Center on July 27, 2024 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)

    Breaking the bank: are Hollywood stars getting paid too much?

    Robert Downey Jr’s return to the Marvel universe will make him the highest-paid actor in the industry but post-strikes, should A-listers be taking all the cash?
  • A woman poses for the camera wearing a yellow blouse and purple trousers

    ‘She lived so much life so quickly’: the lost tapes of Elizabeth Taylor

  • Dr Robert Komaniecki Lecturer of Music Theory &amp; Music History University of British Columbia, for piece on ranking Disney songs

    Wanna be like who? Meet the man who ranked every Disney song

  • Take a pew and answer us this, Jason …

    Post your questions for Jason Schwartzman

  • Soliloquoy at a urinal … Ian McKellen in Richard III.

    ‘We went bankrupt and had to set up the explosives ourselves’: Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine on making Richard III

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Film genres

  • The cast of Rebel Moon

    Action
    Rebel Moon: what do Zack Snyder’s extravagant Netflix director’s cuts add?

  • A limp bit of storytelling … Ozi: Voice of the Forest.

    Animation
    Ozi: Voice of the Forest review – simian version of Greta Thunberg takes on evil corporation

  • Charlotte Kirk as Scarlett in Duchess, standing outside a hotel pointing a gun.

    Crime
    Duchess review – sneers and smiles in noughties throwback Brit-crime revenger

  • Radical.

    Drama
    Radical review – Mexico’s heartwarming answer to Dead Poets Society makes the grade

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