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  • A black-and-white image of a young Al Pacino in a restaurant wearing a suit, shirt, tie and waistcoat, and pointing a gun

    Al Pacino on the inside story of The Godfather: ‘I was told, you’re not cutting it’

    When he bagged the lead role, he couldn’t believe his luck. But after just a week of filming he was on the brink of being fired. In an exclusive extract from his new book, the actor recalls the making of the film that changed his life
  • The SA Agulhas II surrounded by sea ice as it makes its way towards the coordinates to find the Endurance.

    Endurance review – search for Shackleton’s Antarctic wreck overshadowed by history

  • JIGRA 2024 de Vasan Bala Alia Bhatt. Prod DB © Dharma Productions - Eternal Sunshine Productions - Viacom 18 Motion Pictures visuel<br>2Y98RYJ JIGRA 2024 de Vasan Bala Alia Bhatt. Prod DB © Dharma Productions - Eternal Sunshine Productions - Viacom 18 Motion Pictures visuel

    Jigra review – Alia Bhatt is lethal and luminous in sibling jailbreak thriller

  • Kneecap, Patti Cake$, Straight Outta Compton and Bobi Wine Photographs by Curzon, Alamy, AP and AFP/Getty

    Streaming: Kneecap and the best hip-hop movies

  • Anna Kendrick in a green-and-gold Paisley-style blouse and a black skirt

    ‘It feels very personal’: Anna Kendrick on coercion, not wanting children and making a movie about dating a killer

  • Daniel Craig in No Time to Die.

    No time to film: are James Bond’s Hollywood paymasters holding out for a gen-Z 007?

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Reviews

  • Don’t wig out … Nick Frost and Alice Lowe in Timestalker.

    Timestalker review – Alice Lowe’s anti-romcom is a darkly hilarious spin through history

  • A still of Salem’s Lot.

    Salem’s Lot review – Stephen King’s small-town vampire rework lacks bite

  • Two different types of bad hair … Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel in the studio.

    In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon review – heartfelt portrait of a generational talent

  • Warming tale … Buffalo Kids.

    Buffalo Kids review – CGI old west adventure with a big, warm heart

  • Terrifier 3 review – killer clown is tooled up for third helping of gleeful gorefest

  • Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person review – ethical kills for teen bloodsucker

  • Haunted Ulster Live review – mock Halloween broadcast evokes the spectre of Ghostwatch

  • The Last of the Sea Women review – female Korean divers as picturesque eco-feminist tradition

  • Stuntman review – spirited love letter to golden age of Hong Kong’s action movies

  • Daddy’s Head review – a creature emerges from grief in clever British psychological horror

  • A Long Journey Home review – family pressures reach boiling point in a shocking documentary

  • The Three Michaels review – trio of Michael Jackson lookalikes reach for the stars

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News

  • Ben Roberts speaks at a BFI at an event in London

    BFI apologises to film-maker over racial discrimination complaint

  • A sign protesting plans to build a new major British film studio in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.

    Angela Rayner reconsiders rejected application for Marlow film studio

  • Director Martin Scorsese signs autographs as he meets fans in front of the National Cinema Museum in Turin, Italy, Tuesday Oct. 8, 2024. (Giacomo Longo/LaPresse via AP)

    ‘I hope God gives me the strength to make more movies’: Scorsese addresses retirement rumours

  • Jonah Wren Phillips as Angus and Daniel Henshall as Joe in How to Make Gravy

    How to Make Gravy: first trailer for film based on Paul Kelly song released

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What to watch

  • Angelina Jolie in Maria.

    Almodóvar in English, McQueen at war and Jolie on song: Peter Bradshaw’s picks of the London film festival

  • Marthe Keller starred in Billy Wilder’s 1978 film Fedora

    Time tunnels, bathing in blood and wonton soup: movies about the search for eternal youth – ranked!

    With the release of The Substance, in which Demi Moore’s fading celebrity seeks to create a younger version of herself, we rate the 10 best films about turning back time
  • THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, Gunnar Hansen, 1974<br>HC7WBB THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, Gunnar Hansen, 1974

    The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at 50: a brutal yet artful shock horror

    Tobe Hooper’s terrifying 1974 slasher remains one of the most effective and masterly horror films ever made
  • Sophia Loren in Legend of the Lost (1957)

    Happy 90th birthday Sophia Loren! Her greatest films – ranked

  • A composite image of a priest, an opera singer, a woman in a club, a man and woman in an office

    From The Brutalist to Conclave: what is the state of this year’s Oscar race?

  • Keanu Reeves in A Scanner Darkly, 2006

    Keanu Reeves at 60: from surfer dude to action hero, his 20 best films – ranked!

  • close up of woman's face

    From Hard Truths to Nightbitch: 10 films to look out for at the Toronto film festival

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Opinion

  • She sits at a typewriter in a wood-panelled office, looking contemplative

    In Her Place review – true-crime drama of a court worker fascinated by author in the dock

  • Scott Adkins as Sam Lorde in Take Cover

    Take Cover review – Scott Adkins hitman thriller makes Fast & Furious look like Gilbert and Sullivan

  • Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot

    Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot review – Sound of Freedom followup is a test of faith

  • Portraits of Dangerous Women

    Portraits of Dangerous Women review – dog car crash sets off baffling and peculiar drama

  • ‘My disability is the least interesting thing about me’: Actor Adam Pearson on fame, film and his sibling rivalry

  • ‘It’s all I think about’: Stanley Tucci on love, grief and pasta

  • A live-action version of Rugrats with CGI babies sounds nightmarish … and kind of interesting

    Stuart Heritage

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

    Peter Bradshaw

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

    Peter Bradshaw

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

    Veronica Esposito

  • Is The Substance brilliant feminist critique or a soulless mess?

    Adrian Horton

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

    Peter Bradshaw
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Interviews

  • Slugging it out … Bernal in La Maquina.

    Return of the Mexican sex bombs: Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna on their boxing comedy La Máquina

  • Jennifer Salke in a red suit poses seated for a photograph

    ‘Bond’s audience will be patient’: Amazon MGM Studios’ boss on the hunt for a new 007

    Jennifer Salke, who is increasing investment in Britain, says some of the ideas floated in the post-Daniel Craig hiatus have been ‘interesting’
  • Adam Elliot in a black shirt in front of a wall of snail-themed bric-a-brac

    Oscar-winning animator Adam Elliot: ‘Why does everything have to be Disney?’

    The Australian filmmaker of Harvie Krumpet and Mary and Max has long cherished the deadly and deadpan. His latest stars Sarah Snook as a collector of ornamental snails – and draws from a family history of hoarding
  • “People think I must be really messed up. but I swear I’m a happy, well-adjusted human”, says Ella Purnell.

    ‘I can’t do gore and I’m not a gamer’: Ella Purnell on being an unlikely scream queen

  • Alice Lowe as Agnes in Timestalker.

    Alice Lowe: ‘I’ve always gotten mouthy about sexism and it hasn’t really helped my career’

  • ‘It was like reliving everything’ … Shiori Ito in Black Box Diaries (2024)

    ‘Editing it was like exposure therapy’: Shiori Ito, the reluctant face of Japan’s #MeToo movement

  • Paul Simon on stage at teh Royal Albert Hall in November 2016.

    ‘I never said I was going to retire ...’ Paul Simon on disability, drive and the mystery behind his greatest songs

Regulars

  • Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in Joker: Folie à Deux.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Joker: Folie à Deux review – Lady Gaga electrifies in mediocre musical sequel

  • Kneecap, Patti Cake$, Straight Outta Compton and Bobi Wine Photographs by Curzon, Alamy, AP and AFP/Getty

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Kneecap and the best hip-hop movies

  • Daniel Craig in No Time to Die.

    Week in geek
    No time to film: are James Bond’s Hollywood paymasters holding out for a gen-Z 007?

  • Monica Dolan and Kelly Macdonald in Typist Artist Pirate King.

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… British director Carol Morley, who sees the surreal in the real

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You may have missed

  • Still of Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in Joker: Folie à Deux show them nose kissing through the bars of a jail.

    Flopping at the box office, hated by the critics – could Joker: Folie à Deux possibly be any worse?

  • Julie Depardieu with a Newquay police officer at the closing ceremony of the Dinard film festival.

    Bunting, bobbies and Doctor Who phone boxes: Dinard, the French film festival that’s mad for Britain

    Every autumn, a seaside resort in Brittany hosts a charming festival that celebrates only low-budget, independent British and Irish films. Is this a curious case for Poirot?
  • A Samburu herder in The Battle for Laikipia.

    ‘It was a challenge to film both sides’: the struggle to portray Kenya’s age-old land dispute

    From dodging bullets to sleeping on goat skins, film-makers Peter Murimi and Daphne Matziaraki faced unique challenges when documenting the conflict between white farmers and Indigenous herders
  • Dancing in the dark … (L to r) Joaquin Phoenix and Arthur Fleck/Joker and Lady Gaga as Lee Quinzel in Joker: Folie á Deux.

    Singin’ in the nuclear rain: new films push the musical genre in a darker direction

  • DADDIO, Sean Penn, 2023. © Sony Pictures Classics /Courtesy Everett Collection<br>2WNY8GM DADDIO, Sean Penn, 2023. © Sony Pictures Classics /Courtesy Everett Collection film still

    Forget the f-words, ignore the erections: how did an entire plane collectively choose to watch Daddio?

  • ‘The moments he improvised were unexpected gifts’ … Hauer and C Thomas Howell with pennies on his eyes, in the 1986 cult hit.

    ‘Rutger Hauer said he didn’t play bad guys’: how we made chiller classic The Hitcher

  • Two men in suits talk and walk in a corridor

    ‘I’m fine with people bashing us’: inside the controversial Trump biopic

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Film genres

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    Action
    Jigra review – Alia Bhatt is lethal and luminous in sibling jailbreak thriller

  • Warming tale … Buffalo Kids.

    Animation
    Buffalo Kids review – CGI old west adventure with a big, warm heart

  • She sits at a typewriter in a wood-panelled office, looking contemplative

    Crime
    In Her Place review – true-crime drama of a court worker fascinated by author in the dock

  • Kneecap, Patti Cake$, Straight Outta Compton and Bobi Wine Photographs by Curzon, Alamy, AP and AFP/Getty

    Drama
    Streaming: Kneecap and the best hip-hop movies

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