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  • Naomi Watts in The Friend

    The Friend review – Naomi Watts befriends great dane in sweet, slight drama

    An adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s bestselling 2018 novel about a woman dealing with her friend’s suicide is tender and well-acted, if a little messy
  • Composite: John Boyega and Otis Redding

    John Boyega to play Otis Redding in new biopic alongside Danielle Deadwyler

  • A woman wearing a white chef uniform leans over plates of food

    House of Spoils review – Ariana DeBose’s foodie horror is a light snack

  • Libby Letlow in Fur Babies.

    V/H/S/Beyond review – charmingly ragged lo-fi horror anthology strikes again

  • Vicky Krieps and Daniel Day-Lewis in Phantom Thread, the final movie he starred in before retiring in 2017.

    Daniel Day-Lewis’s return to acting is welcome news – but being directed by his son might prove tricky

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Children of the Cult.

    Children of the Cult review – fierce doc about the Osho commune survivors

News

  • Daniel Day-Lewis

    Daniel Day-Lewis ends retirement from acting after seven years

  • close-up of man wearing black suit and blue button-down

    John Ashton, Beverly Hills Cop actor, dies aged 76

  • a woman with a necklace

    Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi to lead Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights

  • The real Brad Pitt promoting his latest work earlier this month.

    Spanish police arrest five people over fake Brad Pitt scam

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Reviews

  • The Alien attacking a woman in the dark

    Alien: Romulus – grungy, back-to-basics instalment goes over same old ground

  • Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg in The Union.

    The Union – Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg heat up Netflix action flick

    The stars’ rapport helps retain your interest in a preposterous international caper that has something vaguely to do with justice
  • John Cena and Awkwafina in Jackpot!

    Jackpot! - Awkwafina and John Cena strapped into stunt-heavy action comedy

    The efforts of a strong cast to make a future dystopia into knockabout fun result in a discordant mismash of general ridiculousness

  • Coraline – delightfully creepy coming-of-age fantasy offers more than just scares

  • It Ends with Us – Blake Lively anchors glossy romance adaptation

  • Borderlands – Cate Blanchett is wasted in janky video game adventure

  • Cuckoo – stylish horror offers atmosphere with incoherence

  • Daughters – heartbreaking record of girls and their imprisoned fathers

  • Trap – M Night Shyamalan’s concert thriller is a mess

  • Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie – another enjoyably madcap SpongeBob adventure

  • The Instigators – Matt Damon and Casey Affleck can’t save underpowered heist comedy

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Video & audio

  • 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

  • During a celebrated career, Smith played roles which ranged from Miss Jean Brodie to Minerva McGonagall in Harry Potter. She died aged 89

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    Maggie Smith's most memorable roles – video

    During a celebrated career, Smith played roles which ranged from Miss Jean Brodie to Minerva McGonagall in Harry Potter. She died aged 89
  • 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

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

    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
  • 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

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    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

  • Guardian G2<br>Victoria Pendleton, photographed by Suki Dhanda for The Guardian, January 2024 MUST CREDIT MAKE-UP - DINA CATCHPOLE

    Bullied, belittled but indisputably brilliant: how Victoria Pendleton became a cycling legend; and what’s missing from Twisters? – podcast

  • Charli XCX

    The ‘brat’ summer takeover – podcast

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Opinion

  • Complicated attitude to settling down … in The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea.

    Whisky growl, granite jaw and unflappable charisma: Kris Kristofferson was perfect as a lover or a fighter

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Two people smile for a selfie in front of a brick building with a welcome sign

    Will Ferrell’s Netflix doc Will & Harper is flawed but vital viewing for cis people

    Veronica Esposito
  • woman in a blazer sits in front of large photo of the same woman in a leotard

    Is The Substance brilliant feminist critique or a soulless mess?

    Adrian Horton
  • Maggie Smith with Robert Stephens in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

    Maggie Smith was the grandest of grandes dames – and a true cinematic superstar

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Why reaction to Lionsgate’s AI film deal reminds me of the Campaign for Real Ale

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Would starring in Men in Black really have made David Schwimmer a movie star?

    Stuart Heritage

  • No kill zone: how revenge rampage Rebel Ridge is reinventing the action movie

    Joel Snape

  • James Earl Jones was movie royalty, a magisterial star who inspired both love and respect

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Venice 2024: Almodóvar’s first major festival win is richly deserved – and epically overdue

    Xan Brooks

  • Are standing ovations at film festivals getting out of hand?

  • Blink Twice and the problem with #MeToo thrillers

    Adrian Horton

  • Bennifer is over – again. But why does Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s divorce feel so sad?

    Sian Cain
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Interviews

  • ‘It’s the last thing I wrote drinking’ … rehearsals for Reverberation at Bristol Old Vic.

    ‘I was barricading myself with alcohol’: Matthew López on the play that was too scary to stage

  • Emma Portner in rehearsals for Forever, Maybe in Sweden.

    ‘It’s an intensely beautiful moment – then it goes away’: Emma Portner on dance’s raw power

    The choreographer talks about overnight fame, ‘extreme ambition’ and her goofy/serious duet, staged by the National Ballet of Canada
  • Harry Lawtey shot for OM

    ‘It has felt so bizarre’: Industry’s Harry Lawtey on coping with sudden fame

    It’s quite a leap for a ‘fragile, sensitive kid’ to find himself starring in a Hollywood action movie. After the huge success of Industry and his new part in Joker, Harry Lawtey reveals why being in denial is the only way he can make sense of it
  • Elizabeth Olsen sitting on a silver velvet couch

    Elizabeth Olsen: ‘I’m not the sexy one. I’m not the nerd. I don’t know where I fit’

  • 2024 Toronto International Film Festival - "On Swift Horses" Premiere<br>TORONTO, ONTARIO - SEPTEMBER 07: Will Poulter attends the premiere of "On Swift Horses" during the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival at Princess of Wales Theatre on September 07, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)

    Sunday with Will Poulter: ‘I leave the cooking to my mum, but we’ll do the dishes’

  • The Forest Hills director Scott Goldberg with Shelley Duvall.

    ‘She’d never done anything like this before’: behind the scenes on Shelley Duvall’s extraordinary final film

  • Will Ferrell and Harper Steele

    Will Ferrell and Harper Steele: ‘More people say they’ve seen an alien than a trans person’

Regulars

  • Nathalie Emmanuel and Adam Driver kiss balanced on girders high above the city in Megalopolis

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Megalopolis review – Francis Ford Coppola’s epic fail

  • Shailene Woodley, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Richard Madden in Killer Heat

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best private-eye movies

  • Still hanging around … Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

    Week in geek
    Can Marvel’s Thunderbolts* avoid the mistakes of DC’s Suicide Squad?

  • A few of Martin Scorsese’s favourite British films (clockwise from top left): Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde; To the Public Danger; The Legend of Hell House; and ‘dark gem’ Went the Day Well?

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… Martin Scorsese’s love of British cinema

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  • This image released by Neon shows Sydney Sweeney in a scene from the film "Immaculate." (Neon via AP)

    Shocks delivered: why pregnancy body horror is on the rise

    Films including Immaculate, The First Omen, Apartment 7A and Alien: Romulus show terrifying depictions of childbirth – in tune with post-Roe v Wade America
  • One Hand Clapping Paul McCartney during the Backyard Tapes session at EMI Studios. London, August 1974.

    ‘The whole human condition is encased in the story’: why Beatles films just keep coming

    Midas Man and One Hand Clapping are just the latest in a stream of movies telling a story we seemingly can’t get enough of
  • Not so much eating biscuits in the small hours with the laptop, then … Ian McKellen as Jimmy Erskine in The Critic.

    ‘I filed my copy from Waterloo station loos’: the Guardian’s theatre critics assess The Critic

  • ‘He’s a monster’ … Dylan Baker, right, and Justin Elvin in the 1998 film.

    ‘It would not get made today’: Todd Solondz on his shocking paedophile film Happiness

  • Pierre Goldman arrives at court flanked by gendarmes in 1976.

    Tried for double murder and adored by the French left: the violent life and crimes of Pierre Goldman

  • a Lee Miller photograph taken in Downshire Hill, London, in 1941.

    ‘Now I owned a private war’: Lee Miller and the female journalists who broke battlefield rules

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