The 77th Cannes Film Festival concluded with a shift to the new generation. Notable awards went to Sean Baker's Anora and Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof The Seed of the Sacred Fig.

★★★★☆ With Luca Guadagnino's terrific Challengers, the acclaimed director of Call Me By Your Name brings us the sub-genre we never knew we needed: the erotic tennis thriller.

★★☆☆☆ Directors Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett's "Abigail" mashes up crime caper and monster movie, but fails to deliver fear or humor. Spoilery trailers and unoriginal characters overshadow promising...

★★★★☆ In Alex Garland's Civil War, a group of journalists embark on a road trip to interview the US President amidst a second American Civil War, while exploring media's dehumanizing relationship...

★★★★☆ Having won the Jury Prize in 2013 for Like Father, Like Son and the Palme d’Or in 2018 with Shoplifters, Cannes favourite and Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Monster, a...

★★★★★ Theodor Adorno famously wrote that poetry was not possible after Auschwitz, but is cinema? Billy Wilder certainly thought so, getting footage from the camps as evidence as much as anything...

The Barbenheimer phenomenon reaches its natural denouement tonight at the 96th Academy Awards ceremony, with Christopher Nolan's colossal Oppenheimer expected to sweep most of the major accolades....

With the UK’s most prestigious film awards returning this weekend (Sunday 18 February), it’s time to enter into a round of foolproof predictions on who will win at the 77th Baftas. The Baftas are...

The cinematic universe is filled with successful productions based on equally successful books. The Lord of the Rings, The Hunger Games, Dune, Harry Potter, IT, Gone Girl, and The Shining are just a...

Christopher Nolan's monumental biopic Oppenheimer led the pack with 13 nods, while Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things and Martin Scorsese received 11 and nine nominations respectively. Greta Gerwig's 2023...

★★★★☆ Following Baz Luhrmann’s deliriously over-the-top 2022 film Elvis comes Sofia Coppola’s decidedly more understated Priscilla. In fact, it’s the polar opposite of Elvis both aesthetically and...

What does it mean to love cinema? For the better part of a decade this writer has written for this website, first as a DVD reviewer, later as editor, and now as chief critic. As with all things,...

★★★☆☆ American filmmaker Michael Mann returns to the big screen for Ferrari, a long-held passion project for the legendary director. As one would expect from the director of Heat and Miami Vice, this...

★★★★★ Godzilla Minus One successfully blends horror-infused kaiju spectacle with an emotionally compelling storyline about grief, wartime trauma, and hope. The film's world-class visuals, engaging...

"Trenque Lauquen" is an enigmatic film by Argentinian director Laura Citarella. It follows Rafa and Chicho's search for the missing biologist, Laura, unraveling secrets along the way. Embedded within...

★★★☆☆ Celebrated British director Joanna Hogg is back on the Venice Lido with The Eternal Daughter, a film shot in secret in lockdown and starring The Souvenir's Tilda Swinton in dual roles as a...