The 20 best cinemas in Britain
Here’s our guide to the venues with the best food, the quirkiest programming and the most beautiful settings
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Here’s our guide to the venues with the best food, the quirkiest programming and the most beautiful settings
Can you improve on perfection? No, but you can improve on Star Wars – as our critic’s pick of Hollywood’s finest follow-ups shows
The 2006 classic is a reminder of the fun magazine journalists used to have, but nobody wants to see Miranda Priestly on a budget
The Gladiator II trailer shows bloodthirsty Romans staging spectacular naval battle in a water-logged arena. But did this actually happen?
In 1987, ‘America’s Dad’ took the Beverly Hills Cop star to task for talking ‘filth’ – starting a savage rivalry that rages to this day
The synth wizard on creating the greatest theme of the 80s, scoring Top Gun and the folly of finding ‘the right sound of a tambourine’
Overweight, oversexed and depressed, the star retreated to Tahiti to build a personal Eden powered by electric eels. It did not go well
The late Robert Towne’s script for Chinatown, full of lived-in detail and masterful twists, is sheer movie heaven. But writing it was hell
John Wick or Mad Max? Jason Statham or Tom Cruise? Cinema’s tough nuts battle it out in our ranking of the greatest action films ever made
An almost-faithful recreation of the original’s unreconstructed idiocy, this belated sequel is warm, funny and full of excellent car chases
The epic 1962 western – made by three directors using unproven ‘Cinerama’ technology – changed Costner’s life. But for better or worse?
How did a film starring Ghost, a ghoulish group of masked Swedes with a taste for theatrics, make millions in cinemas? Its director explains
24 Hours in Lidl is currently trouncing new films from Jodie Comer and Richard Linklater in the UK top 10 – baffling even its makers. How?
From the new M Night Shyamalan to the return of Twisters, via Deadpool & Wolverine, these are the films to fill those long evenings
The House of Mouse is now 100 years old, leaving a huge canon to get through. Luckily, our critic is here to suggest where to start
One of the most magnetic actors of our time seems trapped in B-movie hell. How can he get out?
Clint Eastwood’s WW2 heist caper featured a hilarious, if historically inaccurate, performance by the late star. But it got the tanks right
As an actor, his performances rattled reality. But it was only after our conversation that I realised his true depth and decency
From Don’t Look Now to The Hunger Games, the late star brought twinkle and gravitas to all his roles. These are his most memorable moments
The ChatGPT-generated drama The Last Screenwriter won’t win any Oscars. But why are cinemas afraid to show it?