Best films of 2025 in the UK: No 3 – Young Mothers
In a spectacular return to form, the Dardenne brothers bring empathy and dignity to ill-equipped teen mums looking for a brighter future amid drug addiction and social hardship
The 50 best films of 2025 in the UK: 50 to 3
Brilliant biopics, daring documentaries and a host of chillers and thrillers – our critics pick the best from another sensational year of cinema
Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy review – life gets gamified in one-note Korean sci-fi
Big K-pop stars and a teen-skewed subtext aims this squarely at a particular audience but this fantasy never really levels up
Pregnant at 61 or a mother aged three: why do movies love age-blind casting?
In Kate Winslet’s Goodbye June, Timothy Spall, 68, plays the father of Toni Collette, who is 53 – and pregnant. But those liberties are nothing compared with North by Northwest, The Manchurian Candidate or Thanksgiving
Rob Reiner’s friends Billy Crystal and Larry David remember director together: ‘He was always at the top of his game’
In a joint statement with other close friends, including Albert Brooks and Martin Short, the comedians pay tribute to the Reiners after their deaths
Rob Reiner’s son Nick charged with murder of parents
Nick Reiner, 32, charged after Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner found dead at Los Angeles home on Sunday
Jared Kushner’s firm exits takeover battle for Warner Bros Discovery
Affinity Partners, key backer of hostile bid by Paramount, reportedly steps back following scrutiny of Kushner’s role
Nick Reiner: what do we know about Rob Reiner’s son who was arrested?
The 32-year-old screenwriter, who has dealt with addiction and homelessness, has been arrested after the deaths of of his parents
Nick Reiner to be charged with first-degree murder of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner
LA district attorney says charges could carry the death penalty, after Nick Reiner arrested in murder of his parents
From Harry Potter to The Crying Game, Susie Figgis’s explosive enthusiasm made her an irreplaceable casting director
Producer Stephen Woolley pays tribute to Figgis, who has died aged 77, a brilliant professional whose ‘molotov cocktail personality’ enabled her work in British and Hollywood cinema
Disclosure Day: first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s star-studded UFO movie
Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo and Eve Hewson head up the director’s latest effort
The Housemaid review – Sydney Sweeney takes the job from hell in outrageous suspense thriller
Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar co-star as Sweeney’s secretive bosses in an upstate New York mansion, and director Paul Feig ramps up the sexual tension with evident gusto
Being Charlie: the film Rob and Nick Reiner made together offers home truths
The 2016 drama, loosely inspired by the father-son relationship, is a gritty drama about addiction that has now become a puzzle piece
The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago. But its lessons live on in The Quiet American
Phillip Noyce’s political drama is a searing critique of American interventionism that feels all too pertinent today
Avatar: Fire and Ash review – witchy new sex interest can’t save this gigantically dull hunk of nonsense
The third Avatar chapter erupts with volcanic world-building and thunderous action yet remains a vast, dazzling spectacle in search of an emotional arc