Currently the highest grossing animated film ever, this Chinese box-office obliterator is being touted as the long-awaited crossover point for the country’s mainstream industry. Forget
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When Autumn Falls review – François Ozon’s diverting mystery of tricky family dynamics
That amazingly prolific film-maker François Ozon returns with an intriguing, if tonally uncertain, mystery drama about a suspected murder. In it, the implied Chabrol-esque horror
Snow White review – Disney’s exhaustingly awful reboot axes the prince and makes the dwarves mo-cap
That title is a description of the page on which new Hollywood ideas get written. Here is a pointless new live-action musical version of the
The Alto Knights review – double De Niro makes for a laborious true-story mafioso movie
‘They’re the same – he’s marrying himself!” The speaker is an aghast Bobbie Costello, played by Debra Messing, addressing her shruggingly detached mob boss husband,
The Thinking Game review – DeepMind study offers wide-lens view of our tech lords and AGI
If you don’t follow science news much, you may only be aware of Artificial Intelligence as a new-fangled thingy that somehow makes TikToks of kittens
Brief History of a Family review – mysterious interloper at centre of exquisitely constructed drama
This knockout debut feature from Chinese writer-director Lin Jianjie is like some kind of cinematic kinetic mobile, such as the ones artist Alexander Calder designed
Gal Gadot’s Walk of Fame ceremony disrupted by political protesters
Pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted the Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony for Israeli actor Gal Gadot on Tuesday, delaying the event and inciting police response.
The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru review – British wartime tragedy told with potent empathy
This enthralling and shattering Chinese documentary benefits from superb material: a dark Boy’s Own yarn from October 1942 about the torpedoing of the wartime freighter
Bloody Axe Wound review – keep-it-in-the-family serial-killer horror is gorily absurd
In the sleepy town of Clover Falls, popular teens are butchered with regularity by a disfigured masked killer in the Freddy/Jason/Michael mode, named Roger Bladecut
Dawn of Impressionism, Paris 1874 review – detailed examination of key moment in art history
It’s back to the tried and trusted blockbuster names of French impressionism for the latest release from Exhibition on Screen, the Brighton-based outfit demonstrating remarkable