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Movies

  • Inside the mind of a teenager … Inside Out 2.

    Inside Out 2 review – Pixar returns to emotional Mission Control for Riley’s teen years

    Anxiety, Joy and Ennui join the crew as Riley navigates high school, a hockey camp and zits – but where’s Lust?
  • ‘There’s definitely a tinge of jealousy’ … Russell Crowe in Gladiator.

    Russell Crowe: I’m ‘slightly uncomfortable’ with Gladiator 2

  • The poster for Paddington in Peru.

    Hard stares ready: first trailer released for Paddington 3

  • Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry in Treasure.

    Treasure review – Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry uneasy in well-intentioned Holocaust drama

  • 'I went on a cattle call for Superman’ … Matt Bomer.

    Matt Bomer claims he missed out on Superman role because of his sexuality

  • SORCERY - press film still - 32 SORCERY

    Sorcery review – orphaned girl out for revenge in unsettling Indigenous horror

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News

  • ‘It’s good to be vigilant’ … Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

    Julia Louis-Dreyfus pushes back on Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘PC crap’ comments

  • Actor Jeannette Charles, Queen Elizabeth II impersonator, photographed at her home in Essex. She has died at the age of 96.

    Jeannette Charles, actor who played Queen Elizabeth II in dozens of films and shows, dies aged 96

  • Carey Mulligan signed the open letter.

    Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley join calls for UK creative industries anti-harassment body

  • Johnny Depp at last yea’s Cannes film festival.

    Johnny Depp to play Satan opposite Jeff Bridges as God in Terry Gilliam biblical comedy

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Reviews

  • Kevin Durand as Proximus Caesar in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – future simians swing through cinematic jungle

  • Woman wearing patterned top looks at man wearing grey shirt

    Mother of the Bride – Brooke Shields leads middling Netflix mush

    More background fluff from the streamer, this time from Mean Girls director Mark Waters with a splashy Thailand location
  • Dounble trouble … Parker Young and Sasha Pieterse in The Image of You.

    The Image of You – schlocky erotic thriller is ripe with naffness

    Identical twins mistaken for each other, a desperately obvious crime, the production values of a 70s TV mystery … this is cheap and tedious but not without a certain knowing charm

  • The Fall Guy – Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt fun it up in goofy stuntman romance

  • Tarot – disappointment is in the cards with silly supernatural horror

  • The Idea of You – Anne Hathaway lives out fanfic fantasy in solid romance

  • Unfrosted – Jerry Seinfeld delivers a surreal toast to Pop-Tarts

  • Prom Dates – grating high school comedy is a low-rent disaster

  • Turtles All the Way Down – Isabela Merced leads winning yet uneven YA film

  • Boy Kills World – ripped Bill Skarsgård shows he’s got brutal action chops

  • Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver – Zack Snyder’s bombastically fun sequel

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Video & audio

  • Josh O'Connor portrait photographed for the Observer New Review

    Josh O’Connor on Zendaya and gardening; Marina Hyde on the Met Gala; being a boy in 2024; and Philippa Perry offers advice on leaving a legacy - podcast

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    Does murder count if you’re asleep? Marina Hyde on Christian Horner’s F1 drama; and how inanity ruined the red carpet – podcast

    It’s the Christian Horner paradox, according to Marina Hyde: F1 is now hideously dull, but it’s never been more dramatic; if you kill someone in your sleep, is it murder?; and ‘What a ridiculous question!’ How fawning, and inanity ruined the red carpet
  • The actor whose credits include Rocky and Predator, has died at 76

    Carl Weathers' most memorable film and TV roles – video obituary

    The actor whose credits include Rocky and Predator, has died at 76
  • Tyla performs during New Year’s Eve celebrations in New York City.

    Culture 2024: what to watch and listen to this year

  • The South Korean actor was best known for his portrayal of the wealthy and shallow patriarch in the 2019 Oscar-winning film Parasite

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    A look back at Parasite actor Lee Sun-kyun's career – video obituary

  • In a scene from the film Barbie, Barbie, played by Margot Robbie, and Ken, played by Ryan Gosling, drive through the desert.

    Revisited: why do Republicans hate the Barbie movie? – podcast

  • Andre Braugher rose to fame on the NBC drama Homicide: Life on the Street before starring in the comedy hit show Brooklyn Nine-Nine

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    Andre Braugher's most memorable film and TV roles – video obituary

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Opinion

  • Mickey Mouse in a 1928 version of Steamboat Willie.

    After the Winnie-the-Pooh slasher, now there’s a Mickey Mouse horror movie. This is not necessarily a bad thing

    Stuart Heritage
  • A still from Lumberjack the Monster by Takashi Miike.

    Netflix released Takashi Miike’s new film without telling anyone. Please stop doing this!

    Stuart Heritage
  • A composite of five images: a young white couple canoodling on a park bench, a scary white mask in a black hood, a white man holding up a young white woman's arm on a stage as if she's just won something, a white man on a motorcycle speeding on a road, and a cartoon cowboy.

    Alien? Mission: Impossible? Toy Story?
    What is the greatest movie franchise ever?

  • Morgan Spurlock at the Los Angeles premiere of his Super Size Me in 2004

    Super Size Me was a terrific cheeky stunt – small wonder Morgan Spurlock never matched it

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Sorry Seth Rogen, but if cinemas are the new museums, the movies really are in trouble

    Stuart Heritage

  • Roger Corman: cinema's pulp genius whose talent to shock was rocket fuel

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Double fault: Challengers is as bad in the bedroom as it is on the tennis court

    Mike McCahill

  • What’s the perfect movie length? Only a lightweight needs toilet or food breaks

    Peter Bradshaw

  • High-minded, progressive and literate, Laurent Cantet made a trio of brilliant films

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Anne Hathaway is a secret Arsenal fan and now her reinvention is complete

    Stuart Heritage

  • Civil War is an empty B-movie masquerading as something of substance

    Charles Bramesco

  • Coppola, Lanthimos, Sorrentino: Cannes’ silverback gorillas shall slug it out at this year’s festival

    Peter Bradshaw
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Interviews

  • ‘The rabbit hole felt like the place to aim at’ … Tilda Swinton.

    ‘We anchored ourselves in wild adventure!’ Tilda Swinton on her trippy film about learning, AI and neuroscience

  • Dunne: ‘I tapped right back into my vengeful side.’

    ‘I’ll never forgive or forget’ – Griffin Dunne on the darkness that overtook his gilded Hollywood upbringing

    Griffin Dunne’s memoir is full of wonderful tales about Martin Scorsese, Carrie Fisher and Madonna. But the killing in 1982 of his 22-year-old sister – and the subsequent trial – overshadows everything
  • Harry Hill

    Harry Hill: ‘I always thought I’d make a good serial killer’

    As he gets ready to celebrate ‘60 years of fun’ ahead of his milestone birthday, the doctor-turned-comedian answers your questions on baldness, red-carpet moments and being a people-pleaser
  • Sienna Miller models clothes from her collaboration with M&S.

    ‘I felt self-conscious and ashamed’: Sienna Miller on tabloid intrusion – and why she can’t bear boho chic

  • Diane Lane sits on the floor wearing a jumpsuit.

    ‘It definitely got me a seat in therapy’: Diane Lane on child stardom, sleazy execs and thriving in her 50s

  • Questlove, in NYC 2024

    ‘Rapper’s Delight planted a seed for the rest of my life’: Questlove on hoarding, capturing hip-hop history and the Kendrick-Drake beef

  • ‘I try to stay away from self-pity’ … Nan Goldin in her apartment in Brooklyn.

    ‘These are chilling McCarthyist times’: Nan Goldin on her shame over Gaza – and the film that made people faint

Regulars

  • Viggo Mortensen and Vicky Krieps side by side on horseback.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    The Dead Don’t Hurt review – Vicky Krieps is a woman of substance in Viggo Mortensen’s offbeat western

  • Dev Patel in Monkey Man, Isabelle Huppert in Elle, and Jamie Foxx in Django Unchained.

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Monkey Man and the best revenge movies

  • Venom and Spider-Man face off in Spider-Man 3.

    Week in geek
    Has Venom: The Last Dance’s trailer drawn Spider-Man: No Way Home’s sting?

  • David Cronenberg in Cannes last month for the premiere of his latest film, The Shrouds.

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… David Cronenberg, master of gore as a metaphor for our deepest anxieties

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  • A man and woman caress each others' faces on the dancefloor

    Bringing sexy back: how Hollywood suddenly got horny again

  • ‘Rewilding teaches you to let go’ … Isabella Tree at the Knepp nature reserve in West Sussex.

    ‘We sold everything off, even the semen flasks’: the film about the farming couple who struck gold by rewilding

    Knepp estate was £1.5m in debt. Now it thrums with wildlife, visitors flock there – and farmers are stampeding to copy its success. We meet the star of a captivating film about this amazing rebirth
  • Will Smith at the European premiere of Bad Boys” Ride or Die in May 2024

    ‘People are looking to forgive him’: inside Will Smith’s carefully choreographed comeback

    Two years after that slap at the Oscars made him persona non grata, the Fresh Prince is making a fresh start with a return to Bad Boys. His rehabilitation seems assured – so long as his films don’t flop
  • The Matrix.

    Party like it’s 1999: 10 movies that encapsulate one of the greatest years for cinema

  • Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos waving on the red carpet at a film premire at Cannes

    The most political apolitical festival ever? Here’s how Cannes 2024 went – and who will win

  • side by side images of men in suits, one younger, one older

    ‘This garbage is pure fiction’: when subjects hit back at their biopics

  • Mesmerising and mystifying … Scénarios, directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

    Breathless goodbye: the race to finish Jean-Luc Godard’s last film, one day before he died

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