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Category: Films
‘Her face is a marvel!’: Vanessa Redgrave’s 20 best films – ranked!
20. Deep Impact (1998) In a brief but memorable role as a socialite dumped by her husband, Redgrave cuts through the schmaltz to provide some
Flight Risk review – Mel Gibson serves up white-knuckle fun in airplane suspense thriller
Irritating though it is to be conceding anything to the objectionable Mel Gibson (whose 2006 film Apocalypto is very good), his new film does serve
Sundance 2025: the 10 films not to miss at this year’s festival
Sundance remains one of the toughest festivals to truly predict – a smattering of unknown first-timers unfurling distributor-less films that are often shrouded in mystery
Iranian Oscar nominee Mohammad Rasoulof: ‘After my arrest, I told myself: don’t hold back’
When mass protests erupted in Iran after the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been detained for not properly wearing her hijab,
Oscars nominations 2025: Emilia Pérez breaks record with 13 as The Brutalist and Wicked both trail with 10
Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard’s musical about a transgender gangster escaping from the mob in Mexico, has broken the record for the most Oscar nominations earned
Long-delayed DiCaprio/Scorsese serial killer film Devil in the White City back on track
The long-gestating period serial killer film The Devil in the White City, which for almost a decade has been a mooted collaboration between Leonardo DiCaprio
‘I was careful not to exploit the tears or the drama’: the director of Oscar-tipped Once Upon a Time in Ukraine on her powerful documentary
Director and producer Betsy West is best known for her lively, intimate portraits of remarkable women: her documentary RBG, for example, a profile of the
Stray Dog/High and Low review – Kurosawa lifts crime drama to astonishing new peaks
Akira Kurosawa’s scalding 1949 cop thriller Stray Dog (★★★★★), with its extended closeup shot of a mad dog snarling into the camera over the opening
Presence review – Soderbergh’s ghost’s-eye movie plays it cool with an unhappy family
Steven Soderbergh has made a ghost story with a screenplay from Hollywood veteran David Koepp. It sticks to a single location – the haunted family