Film

Hollywood on the Tiber lifts the lid of Rome’s riotous postwar film industry

It was while the 22-year-old Germaine Lefebvre was walking down a Parisian street that her life was forever changed

The imaginative liberties on show here are the trademark of director Thomas Ostermeier

Like Stanley Kubrick, his gift was to imagine and then realise the unimaginable, the unrealisable – places you could never go

A new biopic covers the short life of basketball’s Dražen Petrović, Croatia’s greatest sporting hero

Robert De Niro, in his first regular television role, is extremely entertaining in Netflix's pacey riff on hypermodern cyberwarfare

A new film celebrates Martin Parr, recorder of the mischief and tenderness of British working class life

The third instalment of Mike White's acclaimed series is back with its usual love of mystery, lurking lust and dark humour

A sumptuously illustrated book of interviews with the director reveals his extraordinary love of the monumental

Tim Fehlbaum takes a journalistic approach to his account of the terrorist massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics

A new film about an architect who survives the Holocaust is a stunning achievement, and one with deep resonance for our own time

Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Mike Leigh’s comedy drama is an artistic masterclass in what cinema can do

Conclave is racking up award nominations. But the machinations surrounding Pope Francis are every bit as intriguing

Brady Corbet’s all-consuming portrayal of László Tóth’s life and work is epic in form, theme and ambition

Jesse Eisenberg’s film turns the darkest material into a deftly funny Oscar contender

Everyone loves cheeseburgers but, as it turns out, really nice greens can also make you feel like life is truly worth living

In this audacious biopic, Timothée Chalamet brilliantly captures the spirit of the original disruptor, Bob Dylan

The Bad Sisters bad guy turns hero in William Tell – and tells us how his name is really pronounced…

As Jesse Eisenberg’s second outing as writer-director, this plangent reflection of the legacy of the Holocaust is a tremendous accomplishment

John Crowley's beautiful film doesn't shy away from the gut-wrenching reality of cancer, instead it embraces it

Many directors might not have scaled their creative heights without Ponti’s recognition that one could make daring and challenging cinema and still turn a profit

Oscar-winner Asif Kapadia on his new docu-drama and the road to dystopia

This adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel deserves – at minimum – an Oscar nomination for best picture

Has director Robert Eggers bitten off more than he can chew with a remake of FW Murnau’s 1922 classic?

This supposedly heart-warming yuletide classic is the story of a NIMBY preparing to impose a radical moral agenda on his selfish neighbours

There were huge advantages to being outside the Soviet Union, but the filmmaker's love of Russia bound him to home

Jacques Audiard’s brilliant Emilia Pérez is a musical like no other, by turns funny, tragic and thrilling

The Bibi Files paints a devastating picture of the Israeli prime minister and his family

For a woman who never desired the limelight, Silvana Mangano achieved cinematic immortality almost in spite of herself

An astounding, eccentric documentary uncovers a murky assassination plot involving Belgium, the CIA and Louis Armstrong

The troubled birth and lasting genius of Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time in America

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books