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Movies

  • ‘What Ryan has is a lack of insecurity about teasing himself, his stardom and his masculinity.’

    Evolution of man: how Ryan Gosling changed stardom, cinema and society

    The actor’s feminist credentials, a wholehearted embrace of comedy and being one of the most memed actors on social media has seen Gosling’s auto-satirising alpha male become white-hot box office in 2024
  • ISS.

    ISS review – Ariana DeBose is ace as third world war sparks space station survival race

Reviews

  • USA. Zendaya , Josh O'Connor in Challengers

    Challengers review – Zendaya aces uproariously sexy tennis-set love triangle

  • Paolo Pierobon (as Pope Pius IX) and Enea Sala (as Edgardo) in Kidnapped.

    Kidnapped review – Marco Bellocchio’s antisemitism drama is a classic in the making

  • Marc Zinga and Lucie Debay in Omen (Augure).

    Omen (Augure) review – Baloji offers secrets and sorcery in Congolese homecoming

  • Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols in On Resistance Street.

    On Resistance Street review – lo-fi record of music’s long battle with racism

  • There’s Still Tomorrow review – resoundingly sentimental drama in postwar Rome

  • In the Land of Saints and Sinners review – Liam Neeson finds cowboy spirit in Donegal

  • Tomorrow’s Freedom review – does this man know the way to peace in Israel and Palestine?

  • Malum/Hunt Her, Kill Her review – double bill of low-budget, single-location horror

  • Quintessentially Irish review – Pierce Brosnan weighs in on scattergun study of Irishness

  • Elaha review – sex, patriarchy and second-generation identity

  • In the Company of Kings review – boxing legends hold court in illuminating mosaic

  • Jericho Ridge review – shades of Rio Bravo in tense siege thriller with old-timey charm

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News

  • Laurent Cantet looks at the camera with a jacket over his shoulder

    Laurent Cantet, film-maker who tackled diversity and class in France, dies aged 63

  • How much am I bid? … Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon in Love Actually.

    Love Actually, Barbie and Saltburn memorabilia auctioned for War Child

  • Jennifer Aniston.

    A way to make a livin’: Jennifer Aniston set for 9 to 5 reboot

  • Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes.

    28 Years Later: Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes cast in sequel

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What to watch

  • Film and Television<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock (1649933a) Woman Times Seven, Shirley Maclaine Film and Television

    Happy 90th birthday, Shirley MacLaine: her 20 best films – ranked!

  • Very Spinal Tap … This Is Spinal Tap (1984).

    Forget Back to Black. Here are eight great fake music biopics

    If you really want to know about making music, fame, exploitation, addiction, egos and challenging personalities – look to fiction. Here are our favourites
  • black and white film still of man handing something to another man in an office

    The Conversation at 50: Francis Ford Coppola’s paranoid and predictive masterpiece

    The 1974 suspense thriller smartly predicted the increasing importance of technology and lack of privacy in our lives
  • "The Wild One" Film Still<br>1953: Actor Marlon Brando rides a Triumph motorcycle in a scene from the movie "The Wild One" which came out in 1953. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

    More than a contender: Marlon Brando’s greatest performances – ranked!

  • ‘The Wizard of Oz of horror movies’ … The Lost Boys (1987).

    ‘We shot it in the murder capital of the world’ … how we made The Lost Boys

  • Made for queers, not just about them … Katy M O'Brian and Kristen Stewart in Love Lies Bleeding.

    Shameless, silly and amoral: the new wave of horny lesbian cinema

  • Alec Guinness in The Ladykillers

    Kind hearts, ladykillers and whisky galore: Ealing comedies – ranked!

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Opinion

  • Anne Hathaway.

    Anne Hathaway is a secret Arsenal fan and now her reinvention is complete

    Stuart Heritage
  • two people in vests that say press

    Civil War is an empty B-movie masquerading as something of substance

    Charles Bramesco
  • Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness

    Coppola, Lanthimos, Sorrentino: Cannes’ silverback gorillas shall slug it out at this year’s festival

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Great on paper … Ewan and Clara McGregor in Bleeding Love.

    Nepo-disasters: why Ewan and Clara McGregor are only the latest onscreen parent-child embarrassment

    Stuart Heritage

  • Best of frenemies: why Tom Ripley is a psychopath made for social media

    Peter Bradshaw

  • M Emmet Walsh was both a mesmerising everyman and an indelible gargoyle. How I’ll miss those poached-egg eyes

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Nine years after #OscarsSoWhite, has Hollywood got the message on diversity?

    Lanre Bakare

  • Oscars 2024: Who will win, who should win – and who was snubbed

    Peter Bradshaw

  • In LA, directors have clubbed together to save a landmark cinema. Why don’t Brits do the same?

    Mark Cousins

  • Shove over, Russell Crowe. No action hero has suffered like Sylvester Stallone

    Stuart Heritage

  • Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer gamble pays off with Bafta night success

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Furious jumping: why Henry Cavill is wrong to be cross with sex scenes

    Stuart Heritage
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Interviews

  • ‘I learn a lot every single time I work’ … actor and director Bryce Dallas Howard

    Bryce Dallas Howard: ‘I can’t be trusted around famous people’

  • Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine in The Idea of You.

    ‘The writer of Fifty Shades gave me tips’: Robinne Lee on her scorching bonkbuster The Idea of You

    The fortysomething turned her wildest fantasy – about running off with a boyband member for hot sex in fabulous locations – into a bestseller. As it hits the screen, Lee talks about writing steamy scenes in Starbucks – and her terror of being judged
  • David Harewood

    ‘I was only able to go on stage hammered’: David Harewood on acting, racism and his new role at Rada

    He had barely started his career when abuse left him mentally ill. But he went on to phenomenal success – and has just been made president of the UK’s leading drama school
  • Malala Yousafzai and Jennifer Lawrence, co-producers of Bread & Roses.

    ‘Why the silence? Why the inaction? It breaks my heart’: Malala and Jennifer Lawrence take on the Taliban

  • ‘I remember the feeling of being with him, the brightness of that, the warmth’ … Shannon with Bruce.

    Life without Bruce and Brandon: Shannon Lee on losing her superstar father and brother

  • Claudia Jessie

    ‘I did all the things an actor shouldn’t’: Bridgerton’s Claudia Jessie on class, big breaks – and houseboats

  • Hugo Weaving on Sydney Harbour

    Hugo Weaving: ‘This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done’

Regulars

  • Daisy Ridley as Fran in Sometimes I Think About Dying, standing uneasily in a doorway, looking at other people having a laugh Plot: Fran, who likes to think about dying, makes the new guy at work laugh, which leads to dating and more. Now the only thing standing in their way is Fran herself. Ref: LMK110-J10392-141223 Supplied by LMKMEDIA. Editorial Only. Landmark Media is not the copyright owner of these Film or TV stills but provides a service only for recognised Media outlets. pictures@lmkmedia.com<br>2TD7TE2 USA. Daisy Ridley in a scene from the (C)Oscilloscope new movie : Sometimes I Think About Dying (2024). Plot: Fran, who likes to think about dying, makes the new guy at work laugh, which leads to dating and more. Now the only thing standing in their way is Fran herself. Ref: LMK110-J10392-141223 Supplied by LMKMEDIA. Editorial Only. Landmark Media is not the copyright owner of these Film or TV stills but provides a service only for recognised Media outlets. pictures@lmkmedia.com

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Sometimes I Think About Dying review – Daisy Ridley excels as shy office worker in offbeat comedy

  • Four images together, clockwise from top left: John Galliano standing in a doorway; Audrey Tautou in Coco Before Chanel; Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face; Ben Stiller in Zoolander.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: High & Low: John Galliano and the best films about fashion

  • He won’t be back … Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Running Man, 1987

    Week in geek
    Can genre-buster Edgar Wright breathe new life into The Running Man?

  • Film director Celine Sciamma

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… Céline Sciamma, the auteur who finds the universal in the unique

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You may have missed

  • People watching a film at The Cinema Museum, Kennington, London

    ‘David Lynch had to personally approve the screening’: the film clubs driving the celluloid revival

  • Derek Jarman’s home at Dungeness

    Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s seaside home – in pictures

    Photography: inside Derek Jarman’s home
  • Magic Returns to Disneyland Park as Theme Parks Plan to Reopen April 30<br>ANAHEIM, CA - AUGUST 27: Mickey Mouse poses in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Park on August 27, 2019 in Anaheim, California. Disneyland plans to reopen on April 30, 2021. (Photo Joshua Sudock/Walt Disney World Resorts via Getty Images)

    A Tarzan deathtrap and an 80ft Goofy: prepare for your tour of scrapped Disneyland rides

    A recent auction of designs – including a Pinocchio-themed flume and Anything Can Happen Land – shows how much Disney has changed. But what might the next generation of attractions look like?
  • Cue jingle … Star Wars Cerveza Cristal beer edit, part of a 2003 campaign in Chile called Stop the Zapping

    May the fizz be with you: how a $10 Chilean beer ad took on Star Wars

  • Dave Taylor at 20th Century Flicks, Bristol

    ‘We’re the last bastion of rental’: the video stores resisting the rise of streaming

  • Kirsten Dunst in Civil War

    From Scoop to Civil War: why is it so hard to portray journalism on screen?

  • Terence Stamp as Bernadette Bassenger beside Priscilla the bus in the 1994 Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

    The 30-year hunt to find the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert bus: ‘My jaw was on the ground’

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Film genres

  • True pro … Nikki Amuka-Bird as Deputy Tabby Temple in Jericho Ridge

    Action
    Jericho Ridge review – shades of Rio Bravo in tense siege thriller with old-timey charm

  • still image from stage performance of My Neighbour Totoro: a small girl in a pink dress is seen in the centre of a mythical forest with trees curving around her, lit in green, blue and purple

    Animation
    Studio Ghibli’s work ‘like Shakespeare’, says My Neighbour Totoro stage show’s director

  • In the whacking trade … Liam Neeson as Finbar Murphy in In the Land of Saints and Sinners

    Crime
    In the Land of Saints and Sinners review – Liam Neeson finds cowboy spirit in Donegal

  • ISS.

    Drama
    ISS review – Ariana DeBose is ace as third world war sparks space station survival race

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