Film

2023 went down as the year the superhero movie died. The genre has spun its last web and assembled its last avenger

A husband-and-wife team filmed a classic Polish novel, then made another film from paintings of it. Why?

How did the strange 1970s British film became a cult classic?

Wim Wenders is back with two very different films... and harsh words for Brexit

Dziga Vertov’s film changed cinema and outlasted the USSR – now it’s raising awareness of Ukraine’s fight

Ridley Scott’s epic didn’t exactly win over viewers in France

She is a one-off and her memoir reads as such

This Joaquin Phoenix epic fails to nail its big idea, or the motivation of its subject

A German’s documentary about an end-of-the-pier show in Norfolk might be the best movie yet about Brexit

Why twisty French thriller Anatomy of a Fall is tipped to win the Best Picture Oscar

The award-winning story of how a psychiatric facility on a River Seine barge helps to keep its patients afloat

The Swedish actress’s unhappy Hollywood experience prompted a lifelong questioning of what being herself actually meant

Just as paintings once juxtaposed human skulls and fresh fruit to impress upon their viewers the transitoriness of life, so Mr Cruise has become a kind of walking vanitas

Amid an explosion of young British talent, Sir Anthony Hopkins brings London’s Film Festival to tears with his performance in One Life

There are no right answers in solving this conflict. But the wrong ones are obvious

Cinema's most infamous sex scene; a shattering opening sequence and a truly unforgettable finale – Nicolas Roeg's Daphne du Maurier adaptation has lost none of its power with the passing of time

A new documentary delves into the life of the woman who outstoned the Stones

What would Walt Disney have made of the USA we now find ourselves in?

Every year, a French beauty spot devotes a weekend to UK movies. An eccentric outlier or a harbinger of a new post-Brexit entente cordiale?

After 50-plus films, documentarian Mark Cousins continues his never-ending journey into the dark

A new Netflix drama sees a 17-year-old Polish migrant return from exile in Wales to battle racism, sexism and Romany traditions

The translations of familiar film and book titles into different languages can be fascinating, comical and often downright bizarre

Ira Sachs’ latest movie is the year’s frankest and most sensual film – a thoughtful and provocative exploration of human emotions

If history had been different, Lope de Vega might have been regarded as the greatest dramatist of them all

Amid strikes and sexism, the Venice Film Festival plays it safe

Eclipsed by contemporaries like Garbo and Dietrich, it’s difficult today to appreciate just what a presence Baclanova was in her heyday

Through hard work and determination the actress forged an exalted presence in the French screen canon

Cleopatra invented celebrity scandal, wrecked marriages and careers and – 60 years on – is still the second most expensive film ever made

A former Belgian TV star who became the toast of France, Virginie Efira is little-known here. Is it time for a breakthrough?

A troubled shoot and underwhelming reviews almost spelled the end of director Sam Peckinpah’s career

Few directors have mined their internal anguish and lived experience as deeply as Bergman

There’s far more to Irish cinema than the pain and cliches of Colin Farrell’s dark comedy – as a recent Galway film festival showed