Daisy Edgar-Jones to lead new big-screen take on Sense and Sensibility
The Normal People and Twisters star will play Elinor in a new version of the Jane Austen classic
‘A belter of a movie’: Guardian readers’ best films of 2025 so far
From repressive military regimes in I’m Still Here to funny French teenage delinquents in Holy Cow, readers pick films that have moved them this year
Clueless review – Alicia Silverstone and Brittany Murphy are class acts in 90s Jane Austen parallel
Amy Heckerling’s high school romcoming-of-age classic, composed entirely of quotable funny lines, remains a sophisticated pleasure 30 years on
It Used to Be Witches by Ryan Gilbey review – an idiosyncratic guide to queer cinema
This engaging and experimental book explores the complex politics of LGBTQ+ representation in film
From Hilde, With Love review – anti-Nazi activist’s heartwrenching true story
Liv Lisa Fries gives an extraordinary performance as Hilde Coppi, a dental assistant passing messages to Moscow from Berlin who is arrested while pregnant
Chicken Town review – endearingly daft Fenland crime caper has a shedful of charm
Sparky performances lift this British crime comedy about a pair of young drug dealers who forge an unlikely alliance with a retired busybody
Hercules review – Disney musical is fun, finely sung but not quite fit for the gods
Luke Brady is the hero navigating between godliness and humanness in a show that’s big on booming numbers yet short on emotion
Zombie dogs, martial arts and a meet-cute: Resident Evil has it all
The 2002 adaptation of the horror video game sparked a six-film, billion-dollar franchise – and a fruitful romance between its director and his action hero
Love & Trouble review – raw study skilfully unpeels the PTSD that threatens to wreck a marriage
Their baby’s crying brings on PTSD for Kenny, a former sniper in Afghanistan, and Kerry is beset by her own dark secret. Can love keep them together?
Words of War review – Maxine Peake leads line as murdered Putin-critic journalist Anna Politkovskaya
Peake stars opposite Jason Isaacs, as Politkovskaya’s husband, in this sentimental look at the life of a woman who, 19 years after her death, remains a folk hero
Sudan, Remember Us review – vividness and vibrancy in intense account of Khartoum uprising
Hind Meddeb’s documentary draws on her on-the-spot experience in 2019 as protesters rose against the 30-year rule of Omar al-Bashir
Reconstruction review – teens re-enact crimes for state-driven pantomime in communist Romania
Lucian Pintilie’s grimly ironic 1968 film is based on real events, in which delinquents are forced to act out their brawl in front of government cameras
Mark Peploe obituary
Screenwriter who won an Oscar for Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor and provided the screenplay for Antonioni’s The Passenger
Dan Aykroyd: ‘I don’t believe in associating with beings that have no souls’
The Ghostbuster and Blues Brother on living in a haunted house, jamming with a president, and befriending a bear called Uncle Joe
28 Years Later: political parallels, pregnant zombies and a peculiar ending – discuss with spoilers
Danny Boyle’s much-anticipated sequel kicks off a new trilogy filled with surprises but what does it all mean and what can we expect next?