‘It felt like she was asking me to save her’: the film based on a five-year-old Palestinian girl’s dying pleas

The Voice of Hind Rajab has stunned audiences with its use of the real-life audio of a girl’s call for help after her family’s car was attacked by an Israeli tank in Gaza. Its director explains why she had to tell Hind’s tragic story

UK and Ireland cinema takings on post-pandemic high as A Minecraft Movie tops 2025 box office

Video game spinoff was the highest-grossing film of the year at £56.88m as the sector continued its recovery after Covid

‘This might be too hot to touch’: Gwyneth Paltrow says conscious uncoupling cost her a movie role

Actor thinks derisive response to her description of divorcing Chris Martin led to her being dropped from film

Warner Bros Discovery tells investors to reject ‘inadequate’ $108bn Paramount bid

Board unwilling to accept hostile takeover despite $40bn guarantee from billionaire Larry Ellison

Brigitte Bardot laid to rest in funeral ceremony broadcast across Saint-Tropez

Service attended by singers, animal rights activists and public figures including far-right leader Marine Le Pen

‘It was overwhelming’: Katie Leung on Harry Potter, sudden fame, insecurity – and starring in Bridgerton

As a teenager, the actor landed her first ever job in the blockbuster film series. The experience was fun – but also led to horrendous online abuse. Now she’s back, playing a tough and surprising matriarch in the Regency smash hit

What’s to like? Why you can hate Timothée Chalamet’s character and still love Marty Supreme

Chalamet’s nogoodnik ping-pong hustler character is the latest in cinema’s rich history of protagonists with shabby morals. So why the backlash?

Labyrinth review – Jim Henson and David Bowie make beguiling magic in charmingly eccentric 80s classic

Jennifer Connelly plays a teenager having whimsical Alice in Wonderland-ish adventures in this 1986 family fantasy

Back to the Past review – everybody’s still gun-fu fighting in time-travel sequel

Louis Koo is the modern-day cop still trapped in the Qin dynasty in this cinematic reprise of the hit 2001 Hong Kong TV series

With Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, Béla Tarr became the vividly disquieting master of spiritual desolation

The Hungarian director’s films moved slowly like vast gothic aircraft carrier-sized ships across dark seas, giving audiences a feeling of drunkenness and hangover at the same time

Putin as a Russian James Bond? Jude Law’s Vladimir film seems to have swallowed Kremlin myths

In The Wizard of the Kremlin, Jude Law plays Russia’s president as a cool, reluctant leader, a strategist who got the job because he was young, athletic and a spy. This is a creation far removed from the man himself

It would be an honour to write James Bond theme song, says Noel Gallagher

Songsmith’s comments come after his brother Liam stoked rumours Oasis had been courted for the role

Béla Tarr, Hungarian director of Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, dies aged 70

The internationally acclaimed film-maker was renowned for beautifully shot cinematic epics

A Game of Thrones spin-off, The Pitt returns and Goolagong: what’s new to streaming in Australia in January

Plus a star-studded Agatha Christie adaptation, gory new Ryan Murphy drama The Beauty and Oscars frontrunner One Battle After Another

2 Fast 2 Furious is the franchise’s most derided film. It’s also the best

Gaudy, plastic and tactile, the series’ second film sums up its manifesto: watching souped-up vehicles drive irresponsibly loudly