Silent Night, Deadly Night review – killer Santa remake is overstuffed
There are too many competing and overfamiliar ideas in this busy slasher reboot that’s sorely lacking in style
Daniel Woodrell obituary
Author of ‘country noir’ novels, such as Winter’s Bone, set in the rural communities of the Ozark mountains
Goodbye June review – Kate Winslet’s Christmas heartwarmer is like a two-hour John Lewis ad
Star turns from Helen Mirren, Andrea Riseborough and Toni Colette can’t stop cartoony sentimentality smothering this film directed by Winslet and written by her son Joe Anders
Never be honest in Hollywood – even if you’re Quentin Tarantino
Success doesn’t mean you can speak your mind – and criticizing Paul Dano is like kicking a bunny at a birthday party
Disney to invest $1bn in OpenAI, allowing characters in Sora video tool
Agreement comes amid anxiety in Hollywood over impact of AI on the industry, expression and rights of creators
A stiff dose of ‘weak sauce’: Paul Dano’s best films – ranked!
After Quentin Tarantino’s unfavourable comments about the actor’s performance in films including There Will Be Blood, we run through the roles that show just how potent he really is
Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson to return for latest Hunger Games instalment
Currently in production the second prequel in the series, Sunrise on the Reaping, will likely feature the married couple ‘in a flash-forward’
‘It’s not going to be some miraculous recovery’: film charts healing of Ukrainian children rescued from Russia
Director of After the Rain says she aimed to portray ‘children as children, not as a statistic’ while filming at Estonian animal therapy retreat
Film bro finds and ‘crash out cinema’: how Letterboxd became a review haven for the algorithm-averse
The platform’s esoteric watchlists and rating system appeal to cinephiles craving a different mode of discovery
Ella McCay review – James L Brooks returns with a sorry mess of a movie
Emma Mackey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Albert Brooks, Rebecca Hall and Woody Harrelson are among the stars lost in the writer-director’s baffling misfire
Charli xcx, Natalie Portman and Salman Rushdie lead 2026 Sundance lineup
The festival says goodbye to both founder Robert Redford and its longtime home of Park City, Utah, with a selection of provocative documentaries and starry new films
‘The bullying can’t go on’: the film-maker following Filipino fishers under siege by China
Baby Ruth Villarama’s documentary Food Delivery depicts those struggling with the superpower to retain their trade. The director describes capturing their boats getting rammed by the Chinese coast guard
Quentin Tarantino needs to stop criticising films and start making them again
Trolling wokesters, disparaging Paul Thomas Anderson, insulting Paul Dano … the controversial director plays to type with his list of the top 20 best films of the 21st century
Russell Crowe says makers of Gladiator II did not ‘understand what made the first one special’
The actor has criticised the creative team behind the sequel to Ridley Scott’s 2000 epic, saying it lacked the moral core that defined the original Oscar-winning film
Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases review – on the hunt with Holmes in restored 1920s mysteries
From stealing a photo for the King of Bohemia to battling the Napoleon of crime on a clifftop, Holmes is witty and watchable in these early Conan Doyle-approved dramas