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  • Aaron Taylor-Johnson

    Aaron Taylor-Johnson: ‘I couldn’t understand why Tom Ford wanted me to play a serial-killer rapist’

    The actor answers your questions on his exercise regime, what he thinks of the AI John Lennon and which roles have changed him
  • Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever. Bryan Johnson in Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025

    ‘Are we the first generation that won’t die?’: Bryan Johnson on his controversial lifestyle

  • 2013, PACIFIC RIM<br>IDRIS ELBA Character(s): Stacker Pentecost Film 'PACIFIC RIM' (2013) Directed By GUILLERMO DEL TORO 11 June 2013 SAB5483 Allstar Collection/WARNER BROS. PICTURES **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. A Mandatory Credit To WARNER BROS. PICTURES is Required. For Printed Editorial Use Only, NO online or internet use. 1111z@yx

    Canceling the apocalypse? What can we learn from films set in 2025

  • 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
  • Shyam Benegal being interviewed during the Australian film festival in Sydney, 1978.

    Shyam Benegal obituary

  • Blake Lively

    Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni file lawsuits over It Ends With Us

Reviews

  • Brandon Wilson and Ethan Herisse in Nickel Boys.

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

  • Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh and Grace Delaney in We Live in Time.

    We Live in Time review – romance blossoms for Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield

  • Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen in Nosferatu.

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

  • Survivor … Samantha Morton in 2073.

    2073 review – Asif Kapadia rages against the death of democracy and our planet

  • Rocco and His Brothers review – Luchino Visconti’s operatically magnificent family epic

  • Diabel review – canine sidekick along for ride as dour war veteran biffs bad guys

  • Stockholm Bloodbath review – like Game of Thrones scripted by Guy Ritchie

  • Beezel review – impish jump-scare machine follows single house’s horrific history

  • Oddity review – deft Irish horror gets great value from ventriloquist’s dummy

  • The Wolves Always Come at Night review – melancholy meditation on a lost way of life

  • Who We Love review – queer teen’s Dublin awakening is Euphoria with Guinness

  • 1970 review – puppet Soviets plot alongside real-life footage of landmark Polish protest

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News

  • Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

    Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt reach divorce settlement after eight years

  • Kate Beckinsale.

    Kate Beckinsale says she has been ‘assaulted’ and ‘felt up’ on film sets

  • a man and woman looking at each other

    Justin Baldoni to reportedly file counterclaim against Blake Lively

  • Charles Shyer in 2004.

    Father of the Bride and Baby Boom director Charles Shyer dies aged 83

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We Did Not Consent

Three women, disguising their identities with theatrical masks, revisit memories of the undercover "spy cops" who infiltrated their lives and forged false relationships

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We did not consent documentary

What to watch

  • Composite image showing (from left) Chloé Zhao, Luca Guadagnino, and Claire Denis

    Auteurs assemble! Why 2025 offers a banquet of movies by cinema’s great creators

  • music

    Toyboys, divas and Bridget Jones: the films to look forward to in 2025

    Nicole Kidman takes a younger lover, Tom Cruise accepts his final impossible mission, Angelina Jolie plays Maria Callas and Timothée Chalamet belts out some Bob Dylan in the best of the movies coming to UK cinemas next year
  • Australian Films to Watch in 2025

    Spit, Magic Beach and a Crocodile Dundee redux: 10 Australian films to watch out for in 2025

    Paul Hogan’s crocodile-wrangling larrikin returns, plus two family-friendly gems and new films starring Guy Pearce, David Wenham and Richard Roxburgh
  • composite, from left: A Knight’s Tale; Head of State; Burlesque; Alita: Battle Angel.

    Guardian writers on their ultimate feelgood movies: ‘For when humanity lets me down’

  • A composite of stills from the movies Rose's War aka Baltimore, Exhibiting Forgiveness and Red Rooms

    The best films of 2024 … you may not have seen

  • Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian in Love Lies Bleeding

    And the 2024 Braddies go to … Peter Bradshaw’s film picks of the year

  • Composite of four color movie stills

    Twisters! Tennis! Transformations! The best movie moments of 2024

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Opinion

  • She reaches out paint-covered hands to the toddler, who is already smeared with paint

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

    Chloe Laws
  • Trump and his toxic mentor … Jeremy Strong (as Roy Cohn) and Sebastian Stan (as Donald Trump) in The Apprentice.

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

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Living legend … Liza Minnelli in 2010.

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

    Stuart Heritage
  • Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba looks at camera while making a spell with her hands

    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

  • Good news: there’s a new Horrible History DVD boxset out. Bad news: your children may not find it funny

    Stuart Heritage

  • Want to understand Donald Trump? Then watch macho 80s action movies

    Tom Breihan

  • 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
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Interviews

  • "The Karate Kid" Los Angeles Premiere - Arrivals<br>WESTWOOD, CA - JUNE 07: Quincy Jones arrives at "The Karate Kid" Los Angeles premiere held at Mann Village Theatre on June 7, 2010 in Westwood, California. (Photo by Michael Tran/FilmMagic)

    It’s quiz time: how well do you remember 2024?

  • Vinnie Jones<br>SPECIAL PRICE. Former professional footballer and actor, Vinnie Jones

    Vinnie Jones: ‘I don’t like the hard man label’

    The actor and former footballer talks about grief and the countryside, sobriety and humility, overloading himself and playing tough but fair
  • Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor in Nickel Boys.

    Nickel Boys star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor: ‘If we see something wrong and don’t say anything, we’re participants’

    With a role in the Oscar-tipped reform school drama, the actor continues to pick parts that align with her activism. She recalls how the resilience of her grandmother – and the racism faced by her grandfather – has shaped her
  • Marisa Abela attending fashion awards at the Royal Albert Hall on 2 December 2024

    ‘It was like I’d run six marathons then they said do a seventh’ – how Industry’s Marisa Abela hit peak form

  • a woman poses in a black dress and jewellery

    Claressa Shields: ‘I’m not here for people to cry and feel sorry for me’

  • Elle Fanning: ‘I love to shock people.’

    Elle Fanning: ‘The last thing I want to be is boring’

  • Brady Corbet photographed in NYC. December 2024

    The Brutalist director Brady Corbet: ‘If you’re not daring to suck, you’re not doing much’

Regulars

  • Lily-Rose Depp and Emma Corrin in Nosferatu.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Nosferatu review – Lily-Rose Depp is the dark heart of Robert Eggers’s extraordinary vampire tale

  • Grand Theft Hamlet 2024; Hamlet, 2016; Hamlet, 1969; THE BAD SLEEP WELL, 1960

    Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best Hamlets on screen

  • Zoe Saldana as Neytiri in Avatar.

    Week in geek
    Aliens, Gollum and talking raccoons: when will the Oscars finally reward mo-cap acting?

  • 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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You may have missed

  • 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

  • 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?

    Sites such as film discovery platform Letterboxd promote a new way of film-viewing, eschewing sneering gatekeepers for a more open-minded and eclectic experience
  • You think I’m funny? … Paul Chuckle.

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

    The children’s comic’s role in a drama of ‘death, deceit and carnage’ shouldn’t be a stretch for an established master of destruction
  • 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

  • ‘They have agency’ … Nitin Sethi and Amar Kakkad in Badnam Basti.

    ‘I thirst for you’: the inside story of Badnam Basti, India’s first queer film

  • It’s a weird booking … Anthony Hopkins as King Herod in Mary.

    Why Anthony Hopkins’ Netflix Herod is Hot Frosty 2 – sort of

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Film genres

  • Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian in Love Lies Bleeding

    Action
    And the 2024 Braddies go to … Peter Bradshaw’s film picks of the year

  • Knuckles (voiced by Idris Elba) in Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

    Animation
    Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review – Jim Carrey doubles up in frenetically empty sequel

  • Brooding … Erik Lubos and friend in Diabel.

    Crime
    Diabel review – canine sidekick along for ride as dour war veteran biffs bad guys

  • Renato Salvatori, Alain Delon and Corrado Pani in Rocco and Hos Brothers.

    Drama
    Rocco and His Brothers review – Luchino Visconti’s operatically magnificent family epic

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