Graham Greene and Carol Reed’s film shot in postwar Vienna featured a grumpy Joseph Cotten, a boozy cast — and the finest performance of Orson Welles’ career
The new Alien movie shows the mess that can occur when studios stop thinking about the bottom line
The Spanish director’s first feature-length English-language film lyrically looks back over a life
Highlights include Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist’, Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas and an erotic thriller from Nicole Kidman
At the Venice Film Festival, director Brady Corbet tells the fascinating story of a proud man starting a new life in America
Writer-director Halina Reijn has made a contemporary film with both heat and brains
Director Alfonso Cuarón assembles a cast of big names in a compelling mystery
The star captures the soprano’s intellect and pathos but joy and warmth are in short supply
Virginie Despentes uses the 18th-century epistolary form to craft a modern exploration of ageing, gender and addiction
Inmates produce a stage show in prison drama ‘Sing Sing’; swashbuckling ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ is a French feast of derring-do; an absent mother leaves Swedish sisters to their own devices in ‘Paradise Is Burning’; Chinese fable ‘Black Dog’ is a tale of canine connection; ‘Touch’ is an Icelandic old-school weepie; odd-couple comedy ‘Between the Temples’ stars Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane — reviews by Stephanie Bunbury and Jonathan Romney
Real actors rub shoulders with amateurs in a moving story of inmates overcoming fear and suspicion to put on a stage show
Baltasar Kormákur directs a reflective drama which takes in Soho, Hiroshima and Alzheimer’s
Mika Gustafson’s defiantly uncutesy film follows three canny girls whose mother has gone Awol
The latest remake of Alexandre Dumas’s novel is overlong but entertaining
A silent loner returns to his desolate hometown in Guan Hu’s haunting, hallucinatory film
La missione di un uomo: risolvere il misterioso e brutale omicidio del grandioso regista Italiano
One man’s unending mission to solve the mysterious and brutal killing of the Italian film director
The latest instalment of the epic sci-fi franchise came out in cinemas last week. Horatia Harrod and Stephen Bush join to discuss
Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane star as a cantor and a 70-ish woman preparing for her belated bat mitzvah
Hunter Schafer plays an angsty woman taken to an Alpine retreat run by a menacingly cordial Dan Stevens
Haley Bennett is stately but opaque as the pioneering woman behind the venerable French label
Two women are lured to a private island in Zoë Kravitz’s film, which goes for light laughs rather than damning satire
A bittersweet portrait tries to get at the truth about this ‘difficult’ star and her psychological struggles
It exploits fellow feeling and gnaws away at the foundations of a civilised society
Known for chiselled good looks, the film star shot to fame playing murderers and hitmen