Hollywood darling Timothée Chalamet breaks his image in “Bones and All
The film “Bones and All”, in competition at the Venice Film Festival in September, went home with a Best Director…
Streaming: Top Gun: Maverick and the best of Tom Cruise
The age-defying actor’s return in a belated Top Gun sequel adds to a fascinating career ranging from Magnolia to Mission:…
Hilma review – Sweden’s mystical outsider artist gets feelgood biopic
Film candyman Lasse Hallström has delivered a cloying but well performed version of the life of Swedish painter Hilma af…
Park Chan-wook: ‘We must accept we have an illness in our society’
The director’s latest film is noticeably short of his trademark sex and violence, but he still isn’t scared to confront…
Pure Grit review – melancholy tale of love and Rocky mountain bareback horse racing
This mesmerising documentary follows the turbulent life of a young Native American woman as she returns to racing after a…
Three documentaries to watch about the Queen
As the world mourns the Queen, learn more about her life as we say farewell to the Elizabethan era and…
Broker review – Kore-eda gets the tone all wrong in sudsy Korean baby adoption tale
The director of Shoplifters shows naivety in trying to turn two baby kidnappers into lovable rogues. Even Parasite’s Song Kang-ho…
The Metamorphosis of Birds review – a lyrical love letter to family
Portuguese visual artist Catarina Vasconcelos’s debut is a gorgeously shot fictionalised documentary about longing and loss
Berlin film festival 2022 roundup – earnestness, joy, and the best film won
At an unusually quiet, Covid-strict festival, it was a good year for the French, and female directors – and we…
Omicron deals one more blow to schools that have weathered COVID and violence
The St. Louis Park Public Schools in suburban Minneapolis held in-person learning all semester, with no school closures for COVID-19…