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Film

  • The Miracle Club: Maggie Smith film that took 20 years to make to get premiere

    Story of four Irish women who leave Dublin for the first time will be screened in New York next Monday

  • Michael Caine announces debut thriller to be published in November

  • Chris Hemsworth thinks Thor has become ‘too silly’ – if superheroes are turning on Marvel, is endgame nigh?

    Stuart Heritage

  • Hairspray review – subversive spirit shines through John Waters’ high-camp 80s musical

  • Chevalier review – neglected 18th-century Black virtuoso finally gets his due

  • Sight Extended review – unsettling tale is an eye-opener in our age of AI anxiety

News

  • Cuba Gooding Jr settles New York rape lawsuit, averting trial

    • ‘Forget all the excuses’: Arnold Schwarzenegger expresses regret over groping claims

    • Hollywood actors union overwhelmingly votes to strike if talks fail with studios

    • Studio Ghibli to release Hayao Miyazaki’s final film with no trailers or promotion

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Reviews

  • Fast X – stupidly entertaining sequel offers more of the same

  • White Men Can’t Jump – comedy remake fumbles the shot

    Sinqua Walls and Jack Harlow fail to recall the magic of the 1992 hit in a shallow and mostly unfunny nostalgia play

  • The Mother – Jennifer Lopez goes kick-ass in abject kidnap thriller

    Lopez plays an ex-special forces parent aiming to rescues her kid from the bad guys in this formulaic and muddled Netflix caper

  • Hypnotic – Ben Affleck apes Inception in goofy B-movie thriller

  • Book Club: The Next Chapter – smirking sequel as the squad head for Italy

  • Love Again – Céline Dion is the high note of sappy romcom

  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 – James Gunn’s fun and energetic threequel

  • Peter Pan & Wendy – Jude Law has fun in a so-so reinvention

  • Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Judy Blume adaptation is a winner

  • Evil Dead Rise – solid horror reboot brings the gore

  • Ghosted – dreadful big star action comedy deserves to be ignored

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Video & audio

  • Our critics’ guide to a summer of music, movies and culture

     

  • Ray Stevenson's most memorable roles – video

     

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    Northern Irish actor, who often played warriors in productions including Rome and Vikings, was hospitalised suddenly while filming in Italy

  • Weekend podcast: Little Mermaid star Halle Bailey, Marina Hyde on the This Morning ‘rift’, and the bereaved sex taboo

     
    Nothing is more important to the country right now than Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield’s alleged rift, and Marina Hyde is gripped; Little Mermaid star Halle Bailey talks about overcoming self-doubt, her soulmate sister Chlöe, and inspiring the next generation; and author Kat Lister explores the stigma of grieving partners’ sexuality.

  • Why China just can't quit Hollywood – video

     

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  • First feature film shot in space premieres in Russia – video

     

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  • Why has gaming taken over? – Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph

     

  • Are we over the Oscars? Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph

     
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Opinion

  • Royal but redundant: why the Disney prince is an endangered species

    Guy Bigel

  • Kenneth Anger: Tinseltown’s outrageous magus of occult desire

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Ghosted is not romantic – it’s a walking red flag

    Jess Bacon

  • Tracking down and snapping retired stars is a gross and uneasy trend

    Stuart Heritage

  • Jude Law’s Henry VIII, Alicia Vikander’s Catherine Parr – and Johnny Depp as Louis XV: Cannes again lays on a king’s banquet

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Today’s ‘films’ are nothing of the sort – so stop calling them that

    John Boorman

  • Quentin Tarantino’s next film is about a film critic. Should I be scared?

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once owes its smashing Oscars victory to its amazing resonance

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Michael Caine might not like it, but Zulu shows cinema’s power to rewrite history

    Peter Bradshaw

  • Chaim Topol: the Fiddler on the Roof star showed Jews their origin story

    Siam Goorwich

  • The Whale is not a masterpiece – it’s a joyless, harmful fantasy of fat squalor

    Lindy West

  • Woody Harrelson’s new film means well – but disabled people are more than mascots

    Cathy Reay
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Interviews

  • ‘I won’t be getting my kit off again’: The Full Monty’s Robert Carlyle on the role of a lifetime

  • ‘I felt I wouldn’t be taken seriously’: Riley Keough on movie-making, friendship and privilege

    Keough – Elvis’s granddaughter – had already made her name as an actor. Then as a first-time director, she won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes. She and creative partner Gina Gammell talk about War Pony, their film about a Native American reservation

  • ‘I can do everything but be humble’: Eric Cantona on his surprise new music career

    A generational football talent, a celebrated actor and now a chanteur with serious chops – the Frenchman is a polymath par excellence. He discusses politics, mortality and Pep Guardiola

  • Call My Agent!’s Laure Calamy: ‘I have too much energy’

  • ‘Brian Cox can be frightening!’: Peter Friedman on the thrill of playing Succession’s Frank

  • Shane Meadows: ‘This is as scary a time as I can remember’

  • ‘They wanted their accounts to be heard’: the film-maker who drove 400 Ukrainians to safety

Regulars

  • Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Reality review – palm-sweatingly tense whistleblower drama

  • Streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Cocaine Bear and the best ‘so bad they’re good’ films

  • Week in geek
    Robert Downey Jr as Doctor Doom? Does the MCU multiverse mean anything can happen?

  • Steve Rose on film
    Why the heavily criticised digital revolution has been good for cinema

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You may have missed

  • Gay best friend: a history of Hollywood’s favourite queer character

  • Acting, sexiness and late babies: why Pacino v De Niro is the daddy of all rivalries

    Stuart Heritage
    Al Pacino will become a father again at 83. Robert De Niro, 79, just had his seventh child. What’s the endgame for this fantastic actors’ smackdown?

  • Cannes film festival: the best red carpet looks part two – in pictures

     
    From Julia Garner’s old-Hollywood glamour to Elsa Hosk’s optical illusion gown, from feathers to the burnt to the bin-bag look, fashion’s ingenuity shone bright

  • ‘They wanted their accounts to be heard’: the film-maker who drove 400 Ukrainians to safety

  • ‘Older straight men hated my films with a vengeance’: how 90s queer film-makers shook up cinema

  • Sexual subcultures, fetish on film and banned books: Kenneth Anger – a life in pictures

     

  • Cannes film festival: the best red carpet looks so far

     
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