Category: Films

Dutch film-maker Guido Hendrikx has given us a funny but also somewhat slippery and disingenuous bit of pass-agg provocation, somewhere between documentary cinema and conceptual [more…]

‘Technically, I did my first film when I was two,” says Elle Fanning, which, at 26, makes her a youthful old-timer, already more than two [more…]

The Brutalist is a big, muscular American epic that pits the individual against the machine; the artist against the cogs and wheels of commerce. It [more…]

More than a fortnight before the ceremony, the big winner at this year’s Golden Globe awards may have already have been decided – although their [more…]

Creatively speaking, 2024 was Francis Ford Coppola’s biggest year in ages. Not only did it see the release of his first movie in 13 years, [more…]

How does it feel to have been the star of the Guardian’s film of the year?You know what, it’s really wonderful. Thank you so much [more…]

Underneath the radical swoon of Andrew Haigh’s ground-shifting gay drama Weekend was a swell of sadness. Clearer in the film’s more universal right-people-wrong-time romance but [more…]

Picture the future: it’s the Oscars 2034, and the best actor prizes are no longer split into male and female categories. Instead, there is an [more…]

Morbid jokes, profound loss, demonic possessions, extreme drug use – but enough about my weekend. This year’s best Australian films are a particularly edgy bunch, [more…]

Nightbitch is not the best film of the year. But if it becomes a cult classic, that will primarily be down to its perfect portrayal [more…]