A vivacious cast lifts this live-action remake of DreamWorks fantasy cartoon about Vikings battling dragons, but the film is much too long.
9 Jun 2025 - 2:00PM videocam
Jackie Chan shows he still has it, Ben Wang makes a charming lead, but despite Ralph Macchio’s return the Miyagi-LaRusso dynamic is missing.
29 May 2025 - 3:46PM videocam
Star-studded but with no stand-out films to contend for Oscars, Cannes 2025 still had a lot to offer, including The Mastermind and Eddington.
27 May 2025 - 7:15AM videocam
Genki Kawamura and Kazunari Ninomiya talk about the challenges they overcame – including completing the stressful cult hit game themselves.
Kyoko Saito plays a J-pop star sued for having a boyfriend in a film that questions how young women are treated by a male-dominated industry.
23 May 2025 - 3:43AM videocam
Director brings his style and a star-studded cast including Bill Murray as God to a mildly baffling spy tale and father-daughter story.
19 May 2025 - 2:45AM videocam
Lynne Ramsay’s portrayal of a marriage coming apart pits Lawrence against Robert Pattinson. Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek play his parents.
19 May 2025 - 12:12AM videocam
Joaquin Phoenix puts himself through the wringer as sheriff of a town gripped by Covid-19 and gradually enveloped by violence.
17 May 2025 - 5:55PM videocam
Tom Cruise plays agent Ethan Hunt, out to save the world, this time from a rogue AI, in an instalment that neatly wraps up the franchise.
15 May 2025 - 4:00AM videocam
MRI scanners and vending machines are used to kill characters in creative ways in long-awaited gorefest that follows the franchise formula.
14 May 2025 - 12:00AM videocam
As Soderbergh returns with spy thriller Black Bag, starring Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett, we count down his 10 best films to date.
13 May 2025 - 7:15PM videocam
Despite some good fight scenes and a great performance from Florence Pugh, Thunderbolts* just feels like a set-up for Avengers: Doomsday.
30 Apr 2025 - 1:15AM videocam
Films such as All We Imagine as Light, Sister Midnight and Santosh are showing a different side to Indian cinema and attracting global fans.
29 Apr 2025 - 9:25PM videocam
Ben Affleck returns as a mob-trained, autistic accountant in this convoluted sequel that, despite some good action, is disappointingly thin.
23 Apr 2025 - 11:15AM videocam
This story of a CIA analyst looking for vengeance has all the elements necessary for success, but somehow fails to pull them together.
9 Apr 2025 - 1:48AM videocam
Slow Cinema’s Diaz, known for extremely long movies, often about death, talks about his unique directing style and surviving the Trump era.
Jack Black, Jason Momoa and Jennifer Coolidge bring the laughs in this zany adaptation of the world’s most successful video game.
7 Apr 2025 - 3:26PM videocam
Flow, directed by Gints Zilbalodis, is part of a wave of non-Hollywood animated films telling hard-hitting stories aimed at adult audiences.
1 Apr 2025 - 6:15PM videocam
Alex Garland teams up with his military supervisor from Civil War for this survival tale based on the latter’s experience of the war in Iraq.
28 Mar 2025 - 9:00PM videocam
Lacking the magic of some other live-action remakes of Disney classics, Snow White is missing the heart you expect from the House of Mouse.
20 Mar 2025 - 3:00AM videocam
After 2 Avengers films that were the 2nd and 7th highest grossing of all time, the Russos’ output has been disappointing in recent years.
12 Mar 2025 - 7:15PM videocam
Sex, love, spies, fame, family, trauma and plenty of politics were on the menu at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.
25 Feb 2025 - 11:15AM videocam
Korean director’s film examines, with humour, the difficulties of artistic life through the lens of a man meeting his girlfriend’s family.
21 Feb 2025 - 9:44AM videocam
Richard Linklater’s new film sees long-time collaborator Ethan Hawke play the American lyricist Lorenz Hart as he struggles with fading fame.
Director drew from his own experiences for Queerpanorama, about a man meeting foreign men for sex in Hong Kong. It’s got Berlin buzzing.
20 Feb 2025 - 11:14AM videocam
Robert Pattinson plays the titular Mickey, a loser sent into space, where he is cloned with hilarious results in this cult-novel adaptation.
17 Feb 2025 - 8:29AM videocam
Jessica Chastain plays the rich lover of an illegal immigrant in Michel Franco’s exploration of America’s relationship with poorer neighbour.
Bridget Jones is back for a fourth film, and director Michael Morris brings a freshness to the franchise while nodding to the earlier movies.
12 Feb 2025 - 5:00PM videocam
Mackie does not have big expectations of his new Marvel outing, co-starring Harrison Ford – he just wants his children to think it is cool.
11 Feb 2025 - 7:15PM videocam
A reboot, Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man is momentarily intriguing – but a shallow story and zero thrills makes this film all bark and no bite.
16 Jan 2025 - 2:15AM videocam