‘A lot of stories but very few facts’: sceptics push back on buzzy UFO documentary
The Age of Disclosure was granted a Capitol Hill screening and has broken digital rental records but does it really offer proof of alien life?
Best movies of 2025 in the US: No 5 – Riefenstahl
Documentary portrait of Hitler’s favourite film-maker is an unsettling parable about what happens when ambition is uncoupled from ethics
Hong Kong Mixtape review – dissident artists keep hope alive in the face of China’s crackdown
San San F Young’s passionate documentary records a vibrant creative scene that continues to resist Beijing’s repression
‘Apocalyptically funny’: why The Mitchells vs the Machines is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series of writers explaining their comfort watches is a celebration of 2021’s acclaimed animated adventure
The Great Flood review – Korean apocalypse movie swerves into sinister sci-fi territory
The storytelling is brittle, but there is still enjoyment to be had from this story of a mother and child and rescue from a catastrophic flood in Seoul
Rob Reiner’s five best films
We remember the key films of the great Hollywood director, who has died, alongside his wife
Best films of 2025 in the UK: No 5 – Marty Supreme
Timothée Chalamet’s livewire striver using ping pong as his ticket out of normie American life is just one of many wonders in this extraordinarily rich tale
The Christmas Dream review – Thailand’s first musical in decades is big on sentimental spectacle
A festive musical blends fairytale optimism with lush orchestration and Sound of Music sweetness – even if this often overwhelms a thin storyline
‘I am not happy with my output!’ Kate Hudson on taking risks, rejecting compromise – and finding her voice at 46
After years as Hollywood’s romcom darling, Hudson is putting music at the centre of her career – and after her show-stealing turn in Song Sung Blue, the Oscar buzz is growing
Director Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner found dead at home
Authorities investigating ‘apparent homicide’ after 78-year-old director of Stand By Me and The Princess Bride discovered dead at LA home with wife
Pulp Fiction actor Peter Greene found dead in New York apartment
Greene, 60, praised for the various villains he played during his career but manager says he also had ‘heart as big as gold’
The Guide #221: Endless ticket queues, AI slop and ALL CAPS agony
It was 12 months of megamergers, manufactured musicians and thrillers stretched thinner than a streamer’s budget. Join me for some cathartic moaning
Elastic limbs, fantastical accents and crackling sexual chemistry: Dick Van Dyke turns 100
The goofy star of Mary Poppins becomes a centenarian on Saturday. And what a precocious performer he has proved, sustaining scrappy mischief through seven decades of mainstream entertainment
From Eleanor the Great to Emily in Paris: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut stars the 96-year-old June Squibb, while Netflix’s lovable tweefest sees its heroine move to Rome
Lurker to Our Girls: the week in rave reviews
A buzzy thriller about a Hollywood hanger-on and a moving documentary following the parents bereaved in last summer’s Southport attack. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews