Catherine Shoard    Drama of grief and new romance starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal wins seven awards, while Mia McKenna Bruce wins best lead performance for How to Have SexAll of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh’s revolutionary romance starring Andrew Scott as a screenwriter grappling with the death of his parents...

Matthew Weaver    Director behind Dunkirk, Inception and the Dark Knight trilogy awarded honour for pushing limits’ of cinemaChristopher Nolan, the film director behind movies including Oppenheimer, Dunkirk and Interstellar, is to be awarded a BFI fellowship for constantly pushing the limits of cinema.The...

Tim Adams    A fascination that began in childhood led to the Apollo star launching his spectacular immersive experience of the moon landings in LondonTom Hanks became obsessed with space travel at almost exactly the moment that he became obsessed with film. Listening to him talk, the two events their...

Dalya Alberge    The huge popularity of fantasy historical series has sparked a renewed interest in historical characters, according to producersThe global success of Game of Thrones, the fantasy historical series, has sparked a renewed interest in history among film makers, according to the writer behind a new...

Kitty Drake    If The Lord of the Rings had you yearning for New Zealand, or Julia Roberts on a bike made you fall in love with Bali, you’re not alone. But did you grab your passport and start packing Meet the people who did The Lord of the Rings led Jason to New Zealand Continue reading...

Phuong Le    Kapoor plays the scion of a wealthy family whose violence is the result of a craving for love and validation, in a regressive Bollywood blockbusterAlready topping the box office in India, Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s bombastic action film is high on shock tactics and low on substance. His first two...

Peter Bradshaw    Finnish film maker’s sweet natured odd couple romance fills you with a feelgood glow and laughs in the face of Putin’s threat to the countryAki Kaurismäki is the Finnish director who is notable for being not simply one of the directors who is always welcome in the Cannes competition, but also is...

Peter Bradshaw    The family of a young father dying of cancer organise a party for him in this tender story from director Lila Avilés that lacks dramatic weightThere is a beautiful, but for me also rather placid, sadness at the centre of this new movie from Mexican actor turned director Lila Avilés, whose ...

Peter Bradshaw    A performer is subjected to a brutal homophobic assault and finds himself in a disturbingly intimate situation with his attackerNathan Stewart Jarrett and George MacKay bring alpha performances to this psychodrama of sexual danger from first time feature directors Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping,...

Peter Bradshaw    Powell’s expressionist hallucinatory adaptation of Bart k features a blazing performance by Ana Raquel Satre as Bluebeard’s brideThe Powell Pressburger season at London’s BFI Southbank has given us this rediscovered gem from the later works that Michael Powell directed on his own. It is an amazing...

Catherine Bray    Meghna Gulzar’s somewhat episodic biopic of Indian army officer Sam The Brave’ Manekshaw presents him in terms of outright, if charming, heroismSam Manekshaw AKA Sam Bahadur Sam the Brave lived through some extraordinary periods of change. Born into an India ruled by Britain, he joined...

Peter Bradshaw    Ferrell brings manic energy to this tale of an oversized elf called Buddy and it’s still a charmer after yearsTwenty years on, this has become a canonical Christmas comedy favourite. A jovial seasonal treat, from director Jon Favreau and screenwriter David Berenbaum, Elf was reportedly inspired...

Peter Bradshaw    Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel becomes a disappointing movie, unable to decide if it’s a thriller or a dark comedy, though Thomasin McKenzie and Hathaway give it their allHere’s a peculiar misfire of a psycho noir, for which Luke Goebel and Ottessa Moshfegh have co adapted Moshfegh’s Booker shortlisted...

Lauren Mechling    Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms can’t save a lukewarm family comedy that’s over reliant on potty humor and eye rolling contrivancesThere comes a time, in just about any modern family, when the youngest member of the household is old enough to warrant the commencement of movie night . About midway...

Benjamin Lee    The star, along with Tracee Ellis Ross playing his wife, does his best but Amazon’s increasingly convoluted family film wears thinWe’re in the process of getting snowed in by flimsy festive fodder, most of which is indistinguishable cheaply made, poorly written, floating on the assumed Christmas...

Cath Clarke    This film from the Oscar nominated director of For Sama follows athletes at the Tokyo Games and looks at how they’ve escaped persecution to reach sport’s top tableThere’s nothing that Waad Al Kateab the citizen journalist turned Oscar nominated director of For Sama needs to do to make her...

Peter Bradshaw    Documentary suggests that when performer Gena Marvin takes to the streets she is squaring up not only to prejudice but to the stateIt often takes actual physical courage to be different anywhere you grow up but it takes superhuman courage to be different in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Queendom is a...

Leslie Felperin    Alice Englert directs and stars alongside a mesmerising Connelly in this inconsistent tale about a troubled former child star who checks into a retreatMuch like the little girl with the curl in the well known rhyme, when this film is good, it’s very good. But when it’s bad it’s ... well, the...

Gloria Oladipo    Creed actor accused by then girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, of slapping her across the face, twisting her arm, and throwing her into a carThe trial of the actor Jonathan Majors for assault and harassment against a former girlfriend following an alleged domestic dispute kicked off on Wednesday.Jury...

Mark Sweney    Collaboration will give Sony Pictures Entertainment exclusive first look rights to Guardian’s global journalismThe Guardian has struck a deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment, the parent of the producers of content including The Crown, Doctor Who and Sex Education, to develop the media group’s...

Andrew Pulver    Director of the beloved mock rock doc confirms filming will start on a sequel next year, with most of the original cast and a few new big names to featurePaul McCartney and Elton John will appear in the sequel to cult mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, for which filming is due to get under way early...

Andrew Pulver    Actor said that his address had been edited to remove polemic against falsifying historyRobert De Niro said that his speech at the Gotham awards in New York was censored without his knowledge due to his anti Trump comments.De Niro came to the stage as part of the Gotham historical icon and creator...

Charlotte O’Sullivan    Ahead of new film Eileen, we look at the actor’s best roles, from fireworks and fisticuffs to sensuality and seductionNot Anne Hathaway’s finest hour, this formulaic Austen biopic from Miramax has Hathaway in excessively fragrant and phoney mode as the gorgeous novelist drawn to James McAvoy’s...

Introduction by Wendy Ide Interviews by Kathryn Bromwich, Kit Buchan and Killian Fox    Many films even classics such as Eraserhead and Chungking Express remain surprisingly unavailable online to UK audiences. We asked film makers from Martin McDonagh to Charlotte Wells to pick their favouritesIn theory, there has never been a better time to be a movie fan. The ubiquity of...

Peter Bradshaw    As the Butterscotch Stallion turns , we look back at his most memorable roles, from a courageous navy officer to a cute sports car to a doltish male modelThis was a late period Peter Bogdanovich film, a screwball spin on Ernst Lubitsch, that had Imogen Poots as the golden hearted sex worker...

Scott Tobias    A knockout performance anchors a mostly charming fish out of water comedy that has stayed a seasonal favorite ever sinceThe first rule in the Code of Elves is to treat every day like Christmas, and that, in a nutshell, is Will Ferrell’s comic style. At ft in, he’s almost always the tallest...

Francesca Carington    Far from unimpeachable, with problems ranging from a lack of diversity to an overdose of saccharine, the festive ensemble comedy is an annual staple nonethelessOf the many gestures of love, small and, more frequently, supersized, in Love Actually, the one that always stood out to me is of the...

Anne Billson    Ahead of her th birthday and the release of Poor Things, which she co produced, we assess Stone’s key roles from the critically mauled depths to the Oscar winning heightsThe biggest stumble of Emma Stone’s career was her miscasting as a pilot of Chinese and Hawaii heritage in Cameron Crowe’s half...

Lauren Mechling, Charles Bramesco, Radheyan Simonpillai, Jesse Hassenger, Andrew Pulver, Alaina Demopoulos, Veronica Esposito, Scott Tobias, Benjamin Lee, Francesca Carington and Jenna Amatulli    For Halloween, Guardian writers look back at their biggest movie nightmares, from The Omen to It FollowsThere are major spoilers aheadDario Argento’s equally gorgeous and grotesque Suspiria is here to cure anybody of their scary movie snobbery. In this masterpiece, Suzy Bannion Jessica Harper is...

Stuart Heritage    The fake schnozz has stolen the spotlight from the prosthetics which turn Cooper into an extraordinarily convincing elderly Leonard Bernstein and remind us just how bad old age makeup used to be As the first images from Bradley Cooper’s new film Maestro trickled in earlier this year, one thing...

Stuart Heritage    The director’s press tour for his new epic Napoleon has been a treasure trove of quotes attacking historians, France and his peersAt this point, it doesn’t matter how Napoleon does. Critics might love it or critics might hate it. It might crater at the box office, or it might single handedly...

Adrian Horton    In her film on the schoolgirl turned wife of Elvis Presley, the director keeps her heroine at a maddening removePriscilla, Sofia Coppola’s new film on the former wife of Elvis Presley, introduces its heroine as she is for most of the movie: surrounded by people yet psychologically alone, her...

Stuart Heritage    Driver’s calm but forthright response to a cheeky audience question was a fine example of When Actors Fight Back, but he may now forever be baitedThere’s a lot of talk at the moment about the existential crisis facing the film industry. Knocked by the pandemic, threatened by the internet and...

Peter Bradshaw    After four months, the Sag Aftra film and television union has reached a tentative deal, but we may be waiting a while for the art itself to triumphIt’s over. The stream of sweatshirted and placard wielding Instagram no filter no makeup posts from stars is at an end. The Sag Aftra film and...

Peter Bradshaw    Unlike other TV comics of his generation, the late Friends actor could never transfer his small screen fame to cinema the film industry was the worse for it An alcoholic from the age of ’: Matthew Perry’s troubled life and foreshadowed deathDr Doug Ross from TV’s ER made it in the movies....

Peter Bradshaw    Thank goodness Davies experienced his late career appreciation he was a director of high seriousness and singularity and a man of vulnerability and true good humour Terence Davies was the great British movie artist of working class Catholic experience and gay identity, a passionate believer and...

Stuart Heritage    Booming canine audiences are defying the downward trend elsewhere in movieland. Never mind Paw Patrol, get ready for BarkenheimerCinema, as we know, is on its knees. Audiences are down. The year’s big tentpole summer movies failed. Cinemas, some of them on the brink of bankruptcy, are throwing...

Rebecca Liu    From Crazy Rich Asians to new romance Past Lives, a raft of recent movies has featured reconnections with distant homelands deftly addressing complex questions around diaspora and identityThe fantasy is enticing, and has a tendency to emerge at times of discomfort. In stories about immigration,...

Stuart Heritage    After Barbie’s success, toy maker Hasbro has joined the goldrush and soon even the dullest playtime object will get its own film. Are you ready for the Play Doh Cinematic Universe One of the big yuks about this summer’s Barbenheimer hybrid event was that both Oppenheimer and Barbie were so...

Anne Billson    Steven Spielberg mastered the art of carnage in Jaws and Jurassic Park, but pale imitators such as Meg seem to have forgotten how to do itMonster movie fans were thrilled when Ben Wheatley was confirmed as director of Meg : The Trench. The director of Kill List unleashed on a film in which Jason...

Caspar Salmon    Whether it’s one of the many stars in this summer’s blockbuster, or the bratty bully in Talk to Me, trans stars are showing up on cinema screens. And the big deal is that it’s no big dealThe last few weeks have quietly seen a significant and mostly unremarked flowering of on screen trans visibility...

Tim Lewis    She was top of the class in the worldwide hit Derry Girls, but Saoirse Monica Jackson was terrified she’d never work again... How wrong she was. The show opened so many doors for her from superhero movies to a th century period dramaWhen the first season of the Channel sitcom Derry Girls...

Ellen E Jones    As a new film spotlights her year career, record breaking background artist Jill Goldston discusses turning down Warren Beatty’s indecent proposal and hanging out with David BowieJill Goldston has only recently moved into this airy flat, on the site of the old Teddington television studios in...

Elle Hunt    The producing duo got more than they bargained for when they signed up to the biggest film of . Originally slated to record two tracks, they ended up making the whole soundtrack the most successful film score this century In the very beginning, says Mark Ronson of what proved the most...

Charles Bramesco    The legendary year old action director is making his first US movie for years, the almost totally dialogue free Silent NightThe hallmarks of John Woo’s style are as well known as the film maker’s own name: tough customers with blacked out sunglasses and never ending chains of cigarettes,...

Rich Pelley    The actor answers your questions on working with Mike Leigh, starring in a New Order video and dressing as a giant Snoopy at HarrodsEach year I convince myself that you’re beneath one of the costumes on The Masked Singer, but I’m proved hopelessly wrong Has your drama school holiday job wearing...

Catherine Bray    The former Misfits and Utopia star loves pushing boundaries. But, as a drag queen out for revenge, in his new erotic thriller he’s ventured into truly novel territoryNathan Stewart Jarrett loves an erotic thriller. The Bedroom Window with Elizabeth McGovern. Body Heat with Kathleen Turner. The...

Steve Rose    After three decades as a jobbing character actor in films such as Selma and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Domingo is finally taking on a starring role, but his charismatic presence was always apparent The stars aligned, says Colman Domingo, that’s why I’m wearing stars on my boots. He is laughing...

Wendy Ide    Writer director Lila Avilés’s tender film, told largely through the eyes of a seven year old girl, is a minutely observed ensemble piece in which grief and celebration go hand in hand When will the world end There’s a great deal of uncertainty in the life of seven year old Sol Naà ma Sentà es ...

Guy Lodge    It’s that horror film time of year, but Halloween scenes cast their spell in classics as diverse as Meet Me in St Louis, Mean Girls and ETIt’s a curious celebration, Halloween: a night ostensibly dedicated to death and haunting that has somehow become an occasion for all things autumnally cosy. ...