Rumours review – close encounters for Cate Blanchett and the magnificent G7
Seven world leaders – including Charles Dance’s dozy US president – are trapped in a forest in this amusing but bizarre apocalyptic comedy
November 2024
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Bird review – Andrea Arnold’s untamed Barry Keoghan tale is a curate’s egg
Toads who sweat hallucinogens, lonely pre-teens and a sudden German in a kilt: Arnold’s pick’n’mix latest dives as much as it soars
October 2024
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
The Apprentice review – cartoon version of chump-in-chief Donald Trump’s early years
Ali Abbasi’s film presents young Donald as an amoral narcissist, wastes the talent of Jeremy Strong and includes a grisly rape scene that is quickly glossed over
August 2024
Black Dog review – state-of-the-Chinese-nation drama with feelgood furry antics
A squadron of dog catchers, sent into the Gobi desert to round up a bevy of hounds, adds stark absurdism to this commentary on Chinese society
July 2024
Shelley Duvall obituary
Film actor who starred in The Shining and made seven films with Robert Altman
Trans actor Karla Sofía Gascón sues French far-right politician after ‘sexist insult’
The actor, who became the first transgender woman to win the best actress prize at Cannes, had earlier dedicated her award to ‘all the trans people who are suffering’
A young man on the run from a mob boss lands an unlikely job in a brutally functional love motel and starts a passionate affair with the manager’s wife
Grand Tour review – engaged couple’s sweet, strange colonial era hide-and-seek
Miguel Gomes’s beguiling and bewildering story follows a jittery fiance fleeing his intended across the British empire, and her hot pursuit
Parthenope review – Paolo Sorrentino contrives a facile, bikini-clad self-parody
Marcello Mio review – droll Catherine Deneuve best thing in twee Mastroianni family whimsy
‘This garbage is pure fiction’: when subjects hit back at their biopics
Anora review – stellar turn from Mikey Madison in sex work non-love story
Sean Baker’s tragicomedy features Madison as an escort betrayed by a bratty oligarch’s son who she marries in a film that offers a more realistic take than Pretty Woman
