Silence took Martin Scorsese nearly 30 years to make – and it shows
The period drama set in feudal Japan is an epic of divine proportion, tackling grand questions of faith and colonisation with remarkable fervour
The Stranger review – lustrously beautiful and superbly realised modern take on the Camus classic
François Ozon’s adaptation of the 1942 novella L’Etranger passionately honours the original text while bringing a contemporary perspective to its themes of empire and race
Slither review – James Gunn’s Troma-style comedy horror debut gets a reboot in reputational glow-up
DC Universe supremo Gunn’s thinly conceived debut feature gets a glossy repackaging for seemingly no other reason than his later success
‘Coke and booze didn’t help my creativity’: Joe Eszterhas on his wild times – and his supernatural, anti-woke Basic Instinct reboot
He was the screenwriting colossus behind Flashdance, Jagged Edge, Showgirls and more. Now clean, ‘Hollywood’s Shakespeare’ talks about today’s scared studios, his refugee trauma – and taking acid with Hunter S Thompson
The Drama: sex, secrets and that gobsmacking twist – discuss with spoilers
Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s dark dramedy is a stylish acting showcase, but does it do justice to its weighty themes?
Noel Chanan obituary
Other lives: Documentary film editor and photographer who took remarkable portraits of cultural figures
Do we really need truncheons and pepper spray to fight off London’s ‘feral’ teenage shoplifters?
I don’t want to minimise the scenes in Clapham High Street. But how about dialling things down a notch, writes Zoe Williams
Trailblazers, trumpets and the theremin: 10 soundtracks that changed the way we listen to movies
From soundtracking the silent era, via 50s rock’n’roll and the ‘symphonic pop’ of Henry Mancini to iconic works by John Williams and Hans Zimmer, movies are unimaginable without music. Ahead of the London soundtrack festival its artistic director picks 10 scores that moved the dial
‘The original triple threat’: two exhibitions celebrate Marilyn Monroe as creative pioneer
BFI and National Portrait Gallery to mark centenary of the film star’s birth with ‘the summer of Marilyn’
‘When there was wonder in the world’: why Raiders of the Lost Ark is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their go-to comfort films celebrates Steven Spielberg’s escapist globe-trotting adventure
Dracula review – Romania’s most reliable export is focus of knockabout cut-up satire
Notionally about the vampire, Radu Jude’s new movie involves a bizarre troupe of actors doing a floor-show routine
House of Gloss review – tender portrait of a young trans couple finding refuge in new kind of family
Away from outside discrimination, this documentary brings us into the home of graffiti artist Lana and drag queen Opal
‘An orgiastic pandemonium’: Elvira Notari, the ‘low-life cinema’ pioneer erased by fascism
Italy’s first female director made 60 features depicting the gritty squalor of early 20th-century Naples. Most were lost to Mussolini’s censorship, and she died in obscurity. Now a new documentary is giving her a voice again
My mother, Audrey Hepburn: the star’s son Sean on her movies, marriages, good works and fascist parents
The heroine of Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany’s knew war and poverty, riches and fame, love and betrayal – yet claimed to have lived a ‘terribly boring’ life. Sean Hepburn Ferrer paints a very different picture in his new biography
Should we be polite to voice assistants and AIs?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts