Melania has nothing to tell us
The First Lady’s documentary gestures lamely toward the American dream
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Bradley Cooper’s marriage story
His third directorial outing, Is This Thing On?, finds the good in divorce
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Park Chan-wook couldn’t save No Other Choice
A desperate search for employment turns violent in the auteur’s dark, satirical corporate takedown
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Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet melts the heart
Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley are superb in this original transposition of Shakespeare to the silver screen
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The best film & TV to watch in 2026
While there are exciting movies and series to come this year, the industry feels like it’s out of ideas
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Films of the year 2025
Our choice of the year’s essential big-screen entertainment
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Sentimental Value is an extraordinary investigation into generational trauma
Stellan Skarsgård is outstanding as a film director trying to mend his family through the camera
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It Was Just an Accident is a reckoning with the Iranian regime
Jafar Panahi’s experience as a prisoner makes his film a potent political statement
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Pillion is the film Fifty Shades failed to be
Harry Lighton’s debut feature tests the boundaries of queer cinema without a hint of judgement
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The masochistic violence of Sisu: Road to Revenge
Jalmari Helander’s new film opens a new frontier
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Danel Elpeleg: My grandfather, the Israeli military governor
Zvi Elpeleg presided over Palestinian towns in central Israel. Now his filmmaker granddaughter reckons with his legacy
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It ain’t easy being George Clooney
In Jay Kelly, the Hollywood smoothie plays an actor very much like himself, albeit longing for a second chance at…
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Jennifer Lawrence gives everything to Die My Love
Lynne Ramsay’s film is an extraordinary adaptation of an extreme story about a life in meltdown
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Bugonia shows Yorgos Lanthimos’ mastery of the grotesque
Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons match each other in ferocity
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Jeremy Allen White is wasted as Bruce Springsteen
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is let down by simplistic storytelling
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After the Hunt offers debate but no engagement
Luca Guadagnino’s talky Me Too drama sacrifices interest to academic point-scoring
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Good Boy: horror in a dog’s life
Ben Leonberg’s directorial debut, told from a canine’s-eye view, gives new, tail-wagging life to a predictable genre
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Downton Abbey might just save the Tories
The latest film in the series is magnificently unabashed soft-Tory propaganda
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Twilight is immortal
Twenty years after the book, Stephenie Meyer still knows what we ache for
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A House of Dynamite implodes in its third act
Kathryn Bigelow’s latest action film is nicely edge-of-the-seat – until Idris Elba makes his appearance
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