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Vanessa Thorpe
How a love-starved childhood inspired David Lean, cinema’s great romantic
Sat 16 May 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
Sun, sea and sexy slashers at Cannes film festival
Fri 15 May 2026
Wendy Ide
The Christophers paints the colourful lives of artists
Wed 13 May 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Romería, Kokuho, Our Land and more
Sun 10 May 2026
Wendy Ide
The Sheep Detectives: has crime ever been this cosy?
Fri 8 May 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of the week’s films: Wild Foxes, Hokum, Swapped, and more
Sun 3 May 2026
Wendy Ide
The Devil Wears Prada 2 won’t wear well
Wed 29 Apr 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Mother Mary, Primavera, Rose of Nevada, and more
Sat 25 Apr 2026
Wendy Ide
Michael is everything that’s wrong with the music biopic
Wed 22 Apr 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Rebuilding, Glenrothan, The Blue Trail and more
Sun 19 Apr 2026
Wendy Ide
The Wizard and The Kremlin has one big problem
Fri 17 Apr 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
British censors adopt AI to age-rate streamer favourites
Thu 16 Apr 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: The Stranger, California Schemin’, Undertone, You, Me & Tuscany
Sun 12 Apr 2026
Wendy Ide
Father Mother Sister Brother is a curiously compelling portrait of complicated families
Fri 10 Apr 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Fuze, Night Stage, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and more
Sat 4 Apr 2026
Wendy Ide
The Drama is a caustic dissection of a relationship on the rocks
Thu 2 Apr 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Splitsville, DJ Ahmet, Below the Clouds and more
Sun 29 Mar 2026
Wendy Ide
Two Prosecutors is a chilling study of Stalin’s red tape terror
Thu 26 Mar 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Dead Man’s Wire, Broken English, Arco and more
Sun 22 Mar 2026
Wendy Ide
Ryan Gosling’s charm can’t save Project Hail Mary
Fri 20 Mar 2026
Wendy Ide
An Oscars full of politics – but few political statements
Mon 16 Mar 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: The Love That Remains, Everybody to Kenmure Street, Reminders of Him and more
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Guy Lodge
How to make a successful sequel
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Wendy Ide
Oscars 2026 predictions: who will win in the biggest categories?
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Wendy Ide
Has Glen Powell run out of steam?
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Melissa Denes
Why can’t film’s leading women age like Sean Penn?
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Anthony Cummins
Why Hollywood has fallen in love with Thomas Pynchon
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Alex O’Connell
Timothée Chalamet says nobody cares about opera any more. I used to agree
Tue 10 Mar 2026
Carolina Unzelte
The Secret Agent reveals why Brazil has entered a golden era of film
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Hoppers, Sound of Falling, Peaky Blinders, Mother’s Pride
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Wendy Ide
The Bride! is an oddly beautiful collision of ideas
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Tim Adams
James Bond books once deemed ‘not good enough’ for film, new papers reveal
Mon 2 Mar 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: The Testament of Ann Lee, All You Need Is Kill, Molly vs the Machines and more
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Wendy Ide
Sirāt is a mind-bending journey to the abyss
Fri 27 Feb 2026
Oliver Franklin-Wallis
An hour with… Aidan Zamiri
Thu 26 Feb 2026
Wendy Ide
The Baftas was a night of surprise British wins
Mon 23 Feb 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, The Moment, Cold Storage and more
Sat 21 Feb 2026
Wendy Ide
The Secret Agent is an anarchic, supremely entertaining thriller
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Jonathan Romney
The best and worst from the Berlin film festival
Wed 18 Feb 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: The President’s Cake, Crime 101, Looney Tunes and more
Sat 14 Feb 2026
Olivia Ovenden
What The Brutalist film-makers did next
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Wendy Ide
Wuthering Heights is red-blooded, raunchy and entirely unfaithful
Tue 10 Feb 2026
Guy Lodge
Deleted scenes: the scandal-hit Sundance favourites
Sun 8 Feb 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: My Father’s Shadow, Send Help, 100 Nights of Hero
Sat 7 Feb 2026
Wendy Ide
The Chronology of Water is the abrasive work of an auteur
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Is This Thing On?, Kangaroo, Shelter and more
Sat 31 Jan 2026
Wendy Ide
An admiring portrait of a turning point in cinema
Fri 30 Jan 2026
Barbara Ellen
Take That is an antidote to the ‘big glossy doc’
Fri 30 Jan 2026
Guy Lodge
The best films about the trials of motherhood
Sun 25 Jan 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: No Other Choice, The History of Sound, Saipan, Mercy
Sat 24 Jan 2026
Wendy Ide
What to do this weekend, from a modernist walking tour to the London Short Film festival
Fri 23 Jan 2026
Wendy Ide
H Is for Hawk is a soaring portrait of life after death
Fri 23 Jan 2026
Wendy Ide
Sinners leads the pack with record 16 nominations
Thu 22 Jan 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: The Voice Of Hind Rajab, Rental Family, The Rip and more
Sat 17 Jan 2026
Wendy Ide
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a bold, brutal tale of good versus evil
Thu 15 Jan 2026
Seán O’Hagan
Richard Linklater’s love letter to the New Wave
Thu 15 Jan 2026
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Giant, Becoming Victoria Wood
Sun 11 Jan 2026
Guy Lodge
The pop star-to-actor pipeline
Sat 10 Jan 2026
Wendy Ide
Hamnet is an earthy, grounded tale of grief
Thu 8 Jan 2026
Wendy Ide
Song Sung Blue is the definition of middle-of-the-road film-making
Fri 2 Jan 2026
Wendy Ide
The films to look out for in 2026
Thu 1 Jan 2026
Wendy Ide
The best films of 2025
Thu 25 Dec 2025
Guy Lodge
The best alternative Christmas films
Sun 21 Dec 2025
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Sentimental Value, Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Six Billion Dollar Man: Julian Assange and the Price of Truth and more
Sat 20 Dec 2025
Wendy Ide
Marty Supreme is bold, brash – and one of the best films of the year
Fri 19 Dec 2025
Wendy Ide
Eleanor the Great, Goodbye June and more
Sat 13 Dec 2025
Wendy Ide
Lurker is an unflinching portrait of our parasocial times
Fri 12 Dec 2025
Anna Leszkiewicz
How Chloe Zhao turned Hamnet into an award-winner
Fri 12 Dec 2025
Andrew Anthony
Julian Assange ‘has been in prison for his virtues, not his vices’
Wed 10 Dec 2025
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Eternity, Prime Minister, Cover-Up and more
Sat 6 Dec 2025
Wendy Ide
It Was Just an Accident is a furious attack on the Iranian regime
Fri 5 Dec 2025
Wendy Ide
The 25 best films of the century so far
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Olivia Ovenden
Noah Baumbach wants one more shot
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Martin Scorsese
‘I grew up close to violence. It’s a part of being human’
Mon 1 Dec 2025
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s picks: Blue Moon, Wake Up Dead Man
Sat 29 Nov 2025
Wendy Ide
Pillion shows the hard and soft sides to leather culture
Fri 28 Nov 2025
Guy Lodge
The ice-cold movie to spoil your Thanksgiving
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: The Ice Tower, The Thing with Feathers, and more
Sat 22 Nov 2025
Wendy Ide
In Wicked: For Good, the magic is gone
Thu 20 Nov 2025
Guy Lodge
Why Ari Aster’s Eddington deserves a reappraisal
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Jay Kelly, Left-Handed Girl, Nuremberg and more
Sat 15 Nov 2025
Wendy Ide
Edgar Wright’s The Running Man is propulsive popcorn entertainment
Fri 14 Nov 2025
Jude Rogers
Sheffield goes to Hollywood
Thu 13 Nov 2025
Olivia Ovenden
A love letter from the afterlife
Sun 9 Nov 2025
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Train Dreams, Dragonfly, Predator: Badlands, The Choral and more
Sat 8 Nov 2025
Wendy Ide
Die My Love explores the feral side of motherhood
Fri 7 Nov 2025
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Relay, Facing War, Palestine 36 and more
Sun 2 Nov 2025
Wendy Ide
Yorgos Lanthimos’s conspiracy comedy Bugonia is deranged
Sat 1 Nov 2025
Olivia Ovenden
How daddy issues took over this year’s Oscars race
Sat 25 Oct 2025
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Hedda and more
Sat 25 Oct 2025
Wendy Ide
Kelly Reichardt rewrites the heist movie
Thu 23 Oct 2025
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Frankenstein, Roofman, Ballad of a Small Player and more
Sat 18 Oct 2025
Wendy Ide
After the Hunt isn’t as clever as it thinks it is
Fri 17 Oct 2025
Simran Hans
The women who made David Lynch
Tue 14 Oct 2025
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Tron: Ares, Good Boy, A Want in Her, The Perfect Neighbor
Sat 11 Oct 2025
I Swear is a touching, transformative tale of Tourette syndrome
Fri 10 Oct 2025
Wendy Ide
Films of the week: The Smashing Machine, Urchin and more
Fri 3 Oct 2025
Wendy Ide
A House of Dynamite is terrifyingly plausible
Wed 1 Oct 2025
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Dead of Winter, Brides, Homebound and more
Sat 27 Sept 2025
