Using intimate footage mainly shot by Salman Rushdie’s wife, the writer Rachel Eliza Griffiths, documentarian Alex Gibney follows his recovery from a 2022 attack, in which he was stabbed 15 times whil...

Fatih Akin’s absorbing fantasy drama sees sparks fly between a young couple even after death.

A life coaching Ponzi scheme causes a man’s world to unravel in this disarming first feature from Scottish director Tom Nicoll.

The horror auteur has put his own satisfying spin on the Resident Evil movies by largely jettisoning franchise lore for a standalone zombie thriller that captures the maddening experience of playing t...

Filmmaker Ross McElwee distills his grief over the loss of his child into a powerful memory archive of home movies, clips from previous films, and footage shot by his late son, Adrian.

With BFI Southbank’s Claude Chabrol retrospective Elements of Crime in full swing and La Femme infidèle (1969) re-released in cinemas this week, we revisit an interview with the prolific French filmma...

Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s Cannes prize-winning film reimagines Federico García Lorca’s unfinished play with an extravagant film about Spain’s history of political and homophobic persecution t...

Mathilde Arcel gives a committed performance as a Danish housemaid haunted by a secret that threatens her new life, but el-Toukhy’s Golden Lion-winner fails to give its (anti)heroine a personality bey...

A new documentary from filmmaker Patricio Guzmán explores the root causes and outcomes of the 2019 estallido social, “a social outburst that set Chile on fire”.

More than just one of the world’s most bankable stars, Tom Cruise is an impresario and a powerful advocate for the big-screen theatrical experience. On the occasion of the BFI awarding him a Fellowshi...

Director Lance Oppenheim attempts to crawl into the psyche of Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson), star of the real-life true crime series To Catch a Predator, but Primetime never gets below the surface o...

Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán, who has died aged 85, was known for making radically political documentaries, including his landmark Battle of Chile trilogy. In tribute, we republish this 2012 inte...

Director Lance Oppenheim attempts to crawl into the psyche of Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson), star of the real-life true crime series To Catch a Predator, but Primetime never gets below the surface o...

Legendary British producer Jeremy Thomas, who has died aged 77, helped bring to the screen some of arthouse cinema's most enduring films, from Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1982) to The Last Emperor ...

The crackling chemistry between Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich is the dark heart of McDonagh’s entertainingly spiky film, in which two jaded CIA agents go to the ends of the earth to face down the en...

Lee Chang-Dong’s first feature in eight years examines the social and psychological effects of labour exploitation in South Korea with an intricate story about two married couples who cross paths for ...

The crackling chemistry between Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich is the dark heart of McDonagh’s entertainingly spiky film, in which two jaded CIA agents go to the ends of the earth to face down the en...

Werner Herzog has turned his longtime fascination with the real-life story of the Chaplin twins into a kind of broken fairytale, anchored by a mesmerising double act from sisters Kate and Rooney Mara.

Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern’s documentary about the 2025 Oasis comeback tour doesn’t excite when it comes to concert footage, but it has a great sardonic pair of commentators in Liam and Noel Gal...

Lee Chang-Dong’s first feature in eight years examines the social and psychological effects of labour exploitation in South Korea with an intricate story about two married couples who cross paths for ...

A self-styled society of young aesthetes leap at the chance to ‘rediscover’ retired poet Ed Saxberger (Willem Dafoe) in this poetic meditation on transience of literary fame.

Gregg Araki’s first film in ten years brings his spirit of transgression back to the screen with a wink-wink plot surrounding an artist’s assistant who gets caught up in S&M games with his boss.

Rescued from obscurity after being shelved in 2023, Dave Green’s film is a clever mix of buddy movie and political satire that pits Wile E. Coyote against the Acme Corporation for repeatedly selling h...

The American director’s third narrative feature explores the relationship between the spectator and the spectated with a meta story of a young director who has been tasked with reviving a cult horror ...

One of the most innovative yet still undersung of filmmakers, Harlem native Greaves sought to challenge limitations from race to film form. As a retrospective pays tribute, we retrace his career.

A struggling director follows the deluded Lady Isabella (Sian Clifford) around her country estate for a documentary in Samuel Abrahams’s eccentric comedy about the parasitic relationship between filmm...

Ahead of the solar eclipse on 12 August, we shed some light on a pioneering film from 1900 which is believed to be the earliest surviving astronomical film. In this piece from our August 2019 issue, B...

An animated New York populated by anthropomorphic animals is the backdrop for directors Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki’s tale of a queer filmmaker channelling her complicated relationship with her Mor...

Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi probes the case of Eleonor Alejandra Marín Mendoza – a Mexican woman who, after three miscarriages, faked a pregnancy and kidnapped a baby – in her stylised documentary...

Tom Holland’s Peter Parker returns amid an existential crisis in a brand-extension blockbuster that lacks the springy spontaneity of Spider-Man: Homecoming.

A police stop-and-search creates a rupture in the friendship between two Luton teens in Imran Perretta’s vividly memorable evocation of childhood’s end.

Helen Walsh’s On the Sea stars Barry Ward as a married mussel farmer in rural North Wales whose affair with a younger deckhand threatens his family and community ties.

Ben Rivers' Mare's Nest stars Moon Guo Barker as a young wanderer moving through a post-apocalyptic landscape shaped by myth and change.

Sébastien Vaniček's Evil Dead sequel brings demonic possession to a secluded family gathering, where buried tensions erupt in blood, fire and chaos.