Kinds of Kindness review – Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with Emma Stone for overlong but admirable triptych
‘I don’t want to take these characters home’: Jesse Plemons on life playing the psychopath next door
May 2024
Anora, tale of a stripper who marries a Russian oligarch, wins Palme d’Or at Cannes
Karla Sofía Gascón becomes the first trans woman to share best acting award in the film Emilia Pérez
Sex, rape, cannibals: what Yorgos Lanthimos did after Poor Things
The maverick director and his trusted company of actors on making Kinds of Kindness, the ‘bonkers’ film causing a stir on the Croisette
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Kinds of Kindness review – sex, death and Emma Stone in Lanthimos’s disturbing triptych
Yorgos Lanthimos reinforces how the universe keeps on doing the same awful things with a multistranded yarn starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Jesse Plemons
April 2024
Wendy Ide's film of the week
Civil War review – Alex Garland’s chilling dystopian thriller of journalists in a conflict-riven US
The writer-director’s searing drama of reporters in the line of fire strips away political context to focus on the self-perpetuating nature of war
March 2024
First look review
Civil War review – Alex Garland’s immersive yet dispassionate war film
‘We know why it might happen’: Alex Garland’s explosive thriller Civil War premieres
May 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon: first trailer for Martin Scorsese drama
The highly anticipated adaptation of David Grann’s non-fiction book stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone
January 2023
From Barbie to Creed III: the 2023 films Guardian writers are most excited about
The next 12 months offers a wide range of tantalising new movies. Here are the ones our critics are most intrigued about
April 2022
Amy Schumer: I received death threats after Oscars seat-filler joke
Actor says ‘the misogyny is unbelievable’ after the response to her pretending to mistake Kirsten Dunst for a placeholding stand-in
March 2022
Best picture Oscar hustings
Why The Power of the Dog should win the best picture Oscar
Windfall review – talky Netflix crime thriller brings little reward
February 2022
My streaming gem
My streaming gem: why you should watch Other People
The latest in our series of writers highlighting lesser known films available to stream is a comedy drama starring Jesse Plemons as a writer whose mother is dying
December 2021
Top US films 2021
The 50 best films of 2021 in the US, No 1: The Power of the Dog
Best films of 2021
The 50 best films of 2021 in the UK, No 1: The Power of the Dog
November 2021
The Power of the Dog review – Jane Campion’s full-blooded, emotional western
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
The Power of the Dog review – Jane Campion’s superb gothic western is mysterious and menacing
October 2021
Antlers review – dull, self-serious Del Toro-produced monster movie
A ponderous yet mostly empty creature feature from Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper confuses grimness for substance
September 2021
The Power of the Dog review – Campion and Cumberbatch’s beautiful, brawny western
Jane Campion’s view on the wreckage men cause is welcome in this brooding tale with Benedict Cumberbatch as a brutal, hard-bitten rancher