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  • Kenny and Kerry’s wedding in a still from Love & Trouble.

    Love & Trouble review – raw study skilfully unpeels the PTSD that threatens to wreck a marriage

    Their baby’s crying brings on PTSD for Kenny, a former sniper in Afghanistan, and Kerry is beset by her own dark secret. Can love keep them together?
  • Sparring partners … Maxine Peake as Anna Politkovskaya and Jason Isaacs as her husband.

    Words of War review – Maxine Peake leads line as murdered Putin-critic journalist Anna Politkovskaya

  • Sudan, Remember Us

    Sudan, Remember Us review – vividness and vibrancy in intense account of Khartoum uprising

  • Reconstruction

    Reconstruction review – teens re-enact crimes for state-driven pantomime in communist Romania

  • Undated film still from 28 Years Later. Pictured: Alfie Williams as Spike, Jodie Comer as Isla and Ralph Fiennes as Dr Kelson. See PA Feature SHOWBIZ Film Reviews. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature SHOWBIZ Film Reviews. PA Photo. Picture credit should read: Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc./Miya Mizuno. All Rights Reserved. NOTE TO EDITORS: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature SHOWBIZ Film Reviews.

    28 Years Later: political parallels, pregnant zombies and a peculiar ending – discuss with spoilers

Reviews

  • Sweating it out … Matt Edwards in Fighters

    Fighters review – rage-inducing study of the barriers to participation in sport for disabled people

  • Colin Blunstone sitting in an armchair in Hung Up on a Dream: The Zombies Documentary.

    Hung Up on a Dream: The Zombies Documentary review – happy-sad tale of 60s psychedelic rockers

  • A film still showing two men with beards in the doorway of a darkened room

    Perfumed With Mint review – poetic Egyptian stoner flick reveals inertia of failed revolution

  • Allo La France

    Allo la France review – romance of French phone booths exposes funding cuts to rural services

  • Elio.

    Elio review – Pixar’s goofy, giddy guide to the galaxy offers charm and vulnerability

  • Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and his son Spike (Alfie Williams) in 28 Years Later.

    28 Years Later review – sprinting zombies take evolutionary leap forward in badass threequel

  • Horror that can’t be fully realised … Red Path.

    Red Path review – Tunisian drama tells traumatic story of Islamic State’s horrific cruelty

  • Grenfell: Uncovered.

    Grenfell: Uncovered review – heartwrenching account of avoidable tragedy

  • Film still: Holloway (2024) directed by Sophie Compton and Daisy-May Hudson

    Holloway review – brave women go back to prison to unlock their stories

  • 2005, CACHE ; HIDDEN<br>DANIEL AUTEUIL & JULIETTE BINOCHE Film 'CACHE ; HIDDEN' (2005) Directed By MICHAEL HANEKE 14 May 2005 SSG25605 Allstar Collection/ARTIFICIAL EYE **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. A Mandatory Credit To ARTIFICIAL EYE is Required. For Printed Editorial Use Only, NO online or internet use.

    Hidden review – a stalker-nightmare with a shiver of the uncanny

News

  1. Animated still from Elio showing a young boy wearing a blue eye patch on a floating blue disc.

    Elio gives Pixar its worst ever box-office opening despite positive reviews

  2. Daniel Craig as James Bond in 2021’s No Time to Die.

    James Bond owners say name battle is ‘assault’ on 007 franchise

  3. A black cap and a red director's chair featuring the name David Lynch

    David Lynch’s belongings fetch $4.25m at auction, including scripts for unfinished film

  4. Mark Peploe.

    Mark Peploe, Oscar-winning scriptwriter of The Last Emperor, dies aged 82

Interviews

  1. Allison Williams in a sparkly gold sequinned top and a gold necklace

    ‘We were all pretty privileged’: Allison Williams on Girls, nepo babies and toxic momfluencers

  2. Two girls take a selfie

    ‘Have you heard of this BDSM trend?’ What I learned recording thousands of hours of teens on their phones

  3. Adeel Akhtar.

    Adeel Akhtar: ‘It seemed late in the day to start noticing Asian actors … we’ve been here a really long time’

  4. ‘My least favorite question is: Are you working? What’s next?’ … Marlee Matlin

    ‘It’s hard to find work’: Marlee Matlin on making Hollywood history but waiting for change

What to watch

  1. Stud Life film still

    Puppies, ghosts and euphoric snogging: the 25 best queer films of the century so far

  2. Exceptional … Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hard Truths and Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown.

    Best films of 2025 in the UK so far

  3. Anjelica Huston as Morticia in Addams Family Values, 1993

    Oscars, eyebrows and accents: Anjelica Huston’s best roles - ranked!

Opinion

  • Mia Threapleton as and Benicio Del Toro in The Phoenician Scheme.

    The Phoenician Scheme is fantasy. It is also a remarkable engagement with the real-life conflict in the Middle East

    Tanjil Rashid
  • Marcel Ophuls at his home in Bearn, France, in 2004.

    Marcel Ophuls was the unflinching chronicler of France’s suppressed wartime shame

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Closing Ceremony Winners' Photocall - 78th Cannes Film Festival<br>epa12132065 Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi poses during the winners' photocall after receiving the Palme d'Or for 'Un simple accident' (It Was Just an Accident) at the closing and awards ceremony of the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival, in Cannes, France, 24 May 2025. The film festival runs from 13 to 24 May 2025. EPA/CLEMENS BILAN

    Jafar Panahi’s Cannes victory is a wonderful moment for an amazingly courageous film-maker

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Unbearable metaphor … a palm tree that fell on the Boulevard de la Croisette during Cannes film festival.

    Falling palm trees and a faltering Palme d’Or director: how Cannes 2025 went – and who will win

    Peter Bradshaw

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  2. Could be describing film journos … Clint Eastwood on the set of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

    The good, the bad and the ugly: Clint Eastwood’s interview debacle reveals bleak truths about film journalism

  3. Julie Christie, the Oscar-winning star of 1965 hit Darling

    ‘Julie Christie is magnetic’: on the set of party girl classic Darling – in pictures

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