Hikari’s film about an unsuccessful actor in Japan who finds work at a rental agency playing stand-in friends and family members feels underdeveloped, but is saved by its thoughtful performances.

Nia DaCosta picks up where Danny Boyle left off for a mixed bag of macabre excess that toys with the horror of Naff Britannia.

Kaouther Ben Hania’s docudrama about the killing of five-year-old Palestinian Hind Rajab is undeniably powerful, but the decision to use the child’s real voice within its genre-inflected narrative ...

Richard Linklater turns cinephile devotion into buoyant biography in Nouvelle Vague, his playful homage to Jean-Luc Godard. Ahead of its UK release, we revisit 10 films that mythologise real-life ...

As the 28 Years Later saga mutates once more, director Nia DaCosta brings sharp humour and a wild new cult of villains to the post‑apocalyptic chaos. She discusses stepping into the franchise, ...

The Fellowship of the Ring may be a huge success for Peter Jackson, but what would Tolkien have thought of it, asked this feature from our February 2002 issue.

Five ‘Lynchian’ films that pre-date Lynch’s work, and five modern films that share fascinating connections with his wild at heart and weird on top world.

The Turin Horse was the last testament of the legendarily uncompromising Béla Tarr. In 2012, he discussed retirement, Nietzsche and wanting to change society.

This 1920s newsreel footage captures the action on the pitch at Old Trafford nearly 100 years ago, even if the heavy camera and expense of film stock made it impossible to show all of the goals.

This limited engagement at BFI IMAX features a tailored programme of four titles selected from a longer list of 13 ’Love Stories’ curated by Fennell especially for the BFI, of ...

Taking inspiration from W.E.B. Du Bois’s unfinished work Encyclopedia Africana, Kahlil Joseph adapts his video installation into a radical essayistic film that unfolds like a 24-hour news cycle.

In the late 2000s and again during the pandemic era, David Lynch posted daily weather reports from his home in Los Angeles, offering blue skies, golden sunshine, and a glimpse of the light behind his ...