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  • Julia Garner, Matilda Firth and Christopher Abbott in Wolf Man

    Wolf Man review – fear-free update of the lupine myth lacks bite and believability

    Leigh Whannell’s unfocused follow-up to The Invisible Man is a howling disappointment, misjudged and dull
  • two women sitting in a waiting room

    One of Them Days review – Keke Palmer and SZA take a bumpy but fun ride

  • Ralph Fiennes stars as Cardinal Lawrence in director Edward Berger's CONCLAVE, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features. © 2024 All Rights Reserved.

    Baftas 2025: Conclave leads a pack of underdog tales – and Kneecap may already have won

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Shortlisted … (clockwise from top left) Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hard Truths, Demi Moore in The Substance, Hugh Grant in Heretic, Ralph Fiennes in Conclave

    Conclave blessed with 12 Bafta nominations as Nicole Kidman and Denzel Washington shut out

  • Timothée Chalamet on a Lime bike at the premiere of A Complete Unknown at London’s BFI Southbank.

    A twist of Lime: Timothée Chalamet rode a rental bike on to the red carpet. But how long had he been in the saddle?

  • Noémie Merlant in Emmanuelle.

    Emmanuelle review – 70s odyssey of saucy self awakening gets a Hong Kong-set makeover

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News

  • 2024 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards<br>The British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) statuettes are seen during the 2024 British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) at the Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre, London, Britain, February 18, 2024. REUTERS/Hollie Adams

    Bafta film awards 2025: full list of nominations

  • hollywood sign photographed through smoky haze

    Oscar nominations further delayed by wildfires as Grammys and Sundance set to go ahead

  • Sara Putt on stage during the BAFTA film awards in 2024.

    ‘Long way to go’ on gender parity in film and TV industry, Bafta chair says

  • Mel Gibson.

    Mel Gibson to cast de-aged Jim Caviezel in ‘acid trip’ sequel to Passion of the Christ

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Reviews

  • Thrilling directness … Alessandro Nivola and Adrien Brody in The Brutalist.

    The Brutalist – epic Adrien Brody postwar architectural drama stuns and electrifies

  • Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen in Nosferatu.

    Nosferatu – Robert Eggers’s respectful homage to a vampire horror classic

    The second remake of FW Murnau’s unofficial Dracula adaptation is handsomely shot and stylised, with a forbiddingly gruesome monster, but walks the line between self-conscious and scary
  • Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson in Babygirl.

    Babygirl – Nicole Kidman overwhelmed by lust as CEO having torrid and toxic affair

    Halina Reijn’s film about a company executive’s carnal adventure with her intern is expertly done but suspect at its core, despite Kidman’s bold performance

  • A Complete Unknown – Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan is an electric revelation

  • Hard Truths – a Mike Leigh classic of day-to-day disillusionment and courage

  • The Fire Inside – blazing boxing drama packs a serious punch

  • Mufasa: The Lion King – storytelling takes pride of place in punchy origin tale

  • Sonic the Hedgehog 3 – Jim Carrey supplies laughs and energy for hedgehog threequel

  • Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead novel becomes intensely moving story of a racist reform school

  • September 5 – taut media procedural revisits Munich Olympics

  • Kraven the Hunter – Russell Crowe busts up laborious superhero yarn

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Video & audio

  • Portrait of Andrew Lloyd with visual effect

    The man who caught his catfish; actor Kaya Scodelario on Skins, scares and sex scenes; and Philippa Perry on coping with the climate crisis – podcast

  • Photograph: Emily Badescu/The Guardian

    S8, Ep6: Richard E Grant, actor

    Joining Grace this week on Comfort Eating is actor Richard E Grant
  • Still of Al Pacino holding a gun in a black and white still from The Guardian

    Al Pacino tells the inside story of The Godfather, and Marina Hyde on Keir Starmer, the unforced error machine – podcast

    It’s hard to think of anyone who has squandered so much electoral capital, so quickly, for so little: Marina Hyde reflects on Keir Starmer’s first 100 days; and when Al Pacino bagged the lead role in The Godfather, he couldn’t believe his luck: in an exclusive extract from his new book, he recalls the making of the film that changed his life…
  • Mohamed al Fayed with Michael Cole leaving the High Court, London, following a preliminary hearing for the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed

    Marina Hyde on Al Fayed and Diddy’s enablers, the hidden life of Elizabeth Taylor, and Philippa Perry on embracing anger – podcast

  • James Earl Jones starred in a number of films, gave voice to legendary characters and won two Tony awards in a career that spanned more than six decades

    2:20

    A look back at the formidable career of James Earl Jones – video obituary

  • Alain Delon was an icon of 20th century cinema who lent his beautifully chiselled features to parts that included cops, hitmen and romantic leads, working for some of France’s greatest directors

    1:58

    Alain Delon: a look back at the actor's prolific career – video

  • Ben McKenzie being interviewed on stage

    The OC star Ben McKenzie on how crypto took over Hollywood – podcast

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Opinion

  • Angelo Massagli and Caitlin Hale in School of Rock.

    Ignore all the fresh horrors of reality … two School of Rock co-stars just got married!

    Stuart Heritage
  • A middle-aged woman drinks a glass of milk

    More fizzle than pop: the limits of Nicole Kidman’s erotic drama Babygirl

    Adrian Horton
  • Brady Corbet and Adrien Brody at the Golden Globes 2025

    The Brutalist is anointed – but key hopefuls locked out at curveball Golden Globes

    Peter Bradshaw
  • The director, left, and Paul Mescal on the set of Gladiator II.

    Ridley Scott is a genius film-maker who can do anything – even start a political crisis in Malta

    Stuart Heritage

  • Can’t-do attitude: why the real horror of Nightbitch is weaponised incompetence

    Chloe Laws

  • Golden Globes 2025: a lively list guaranteed to get under President-elect Trump’s skin

    Peter Bradshaw

  • ‘A dancer dances, even with replaced hips and scoliosis’: only one actor can play Liza Minnelli

    Stuart Heritage

  • Wicked’s green skin trigger warning may feel silly – but not as silly as those crying woke

    Stuart Heritage

  • From Airplane! to The Naked Gun, Jim Abrahams was a pioneer of spoof comedy

    Stuart Heritage

  • Please don’t sing along to Wicked in the cinema – it is deeply embarrassing

    Patrick Lenton

  • Curzon Cinemas has been sold for a ‘bargain’ £3.9m – is this good news for UK filmgoers?

    Peter Bradshaw

  • ‘I miss her a lot’: Andrew Garfield telling Elmo about grief was his best work yet

    Stuart Heritage
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Interviews

  • ‘My son does not want to fight’ … Krichman.

    ‘I was waking up five times a night’: how film-maker Mikhail Krichman escaped from Russia

  • Lucy Liu.

    ‘When I sense something is not right, I am going to protect myself’ – Lucy Liu on success, shame and calling out Bill Murray

    The actor soared to fame in the 90s and 00s in Kill Bill, Charlie’s Angels and Ally McBeal – navigating a notorious time for women on set. Now, she returns to Hollywood in Steven Soderbergh’s Presence – and says she’s still not afraid of standing up for herself
  • Richard Price sitting in an armchair.

    Richard Price: ‘I don’t like to write, I just don’t – it’s too much anxiety’

    The US novelist and co-writer of The Wire on why his new book isn’t about cops and robbers, his 80s drug addiction and the authors who have inspired him
  • Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg.

    ‘Every day is 24 hours of panic to just get out the door’: Jesse Eisenberg on self-indulgence, candid aunts and his Oscar-tipped Holocaust comedy

  • Gruesome legacy … Trine Dyrholm as Overbye in The Girl With the Needle.

    ‘It’s easy to call what she did evil’: inside Denmark’s Oscars entry, about a serial child murderer

  • Joe Alwyn shot for OM

    ‘Friends keep me tethered’: actor Joe Alwyn on fame, dating Taylor Swift and keeping his feet on the ground

  • nicole kidman

    ‘The more relaxed you are, the better you are as a human’: Nicole Kidman on Kubrick, sharks and risk-taking

Regulars

  • Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin smiling, seated side by side on a train in A Real Pain.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin spar in sublimely bittersweet Holocaust tour movie

  • A composite of four stills, from Pepe (2024); The Bear (1988); snow leopard documentary The Velvet Queen (2020); and Watership Down (1978).

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Pepe and the best animal films for grownups

  • Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa in Black Panther.

    Week in geek
    Marvel is ready to recast Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa in Black Panther. Should they?

    Ben Child
  • E.T; Schindler's List; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Jaws

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… composer John Williams, master of unforgettable blockbuster soundtracks

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    ‘It’s the moment when genius comes into the universe’: the film recreating SNL’s chaotic first night

  • Demi Moore with her Golden Globe

    Demi Moore’s stellar second act: how the star was finally given her due at 62

    Body horror movie The Substance has finally given Moore the acclaim she has worked for – after 45 years of being recognised for anything but her acting
  • Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter in Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu.

    ‘I had to make the vampire as scary as possible’: Nosferatu’s Robert Eggers on how folklore fuelled his film

    The director of the latest movie in the bloodsucker tradition explains why he went back to the Transylvanian source for his version of one of cinema’s enduring adaptations
  • A smartly dressed man man looks at a woman in a tight fitting floral dress in a night-time scene against a poster-filled urban wall.

    Covid was supposed to kill cinema – but did lockdown and gen Z save cinephilia?

  • You think I’m funny? … Paul Chuckle.

    ‘To me, to uzi’: why Paul Chuckle as a gangster isn’t such a dramatic career change

  • This ’ere and that there … Jason Bateman in Carry-On.

    Carry-On up the cockpit: we’ve got it in for the title of Netflix’s new airplane thriller

  • Ralph Fiennes in the trailer for 28 Years Later.

    Exceedingly good needle drops: why a 1915 reading of a Kipling poem is the cherry on top of the 28 Years Later trailer

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