Baftas 2025: Conclave leads a pack of underdog tales – and Kneecap may already have won

The wonderfully watchable pope-voting movie has 12 righteous nominations – but films about defiant outsiders have clearly captured voters’ imaginations

‘I’m literally Joan Baez right now’: gen Z women relate to Bob Dylan’s toxic situationship

The film A Complete Unknown has sparked interest in the folk singers’ doomed romance, and with it the realization that a similar dynamic is ‘happening to girls everywhere’

A twist of Lime: Timothée Chalamet rode a rental bike on to the red carpet. But how long had he been in the saddle?

The actor’s choice of transportation to the premiere of A Complete Unknown give him a fresh everyman spin. Yet there was a distinct lack of puddle to his trousers

Bafta film awards 2025: full list of nominations

Will Conclave get the votes, or can best film be snatched by A Complete Unknown? Here’s the final shortlist before the awards ceremony on 16 February

Conclave blessed with 12 Bafta nominations as Nicole Kidman and Denzel Washington shut out

Acting shortlists are dominated by newcomers to the exclusion of industry veterans, but The Substance’s Coralie Fargeat is the only female director in shortlist of six

Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old by Brooke Shields review

The former child star on Hollywood’s ridiculous expectations of women – at every age

Emmanuelle review – 70s odyssey of saucy self awakening gets a Hong Kong-set makeover

Noémie Merlant, Naomi Watts and Will Sharpe languish in a luxurious hotel in Audrey Diwan’s self-conscious remake of the classic French softcore drama

Here review – Hanks and Wright add folksy charm to Robert Zemeckis single-place drama

Set in the same spot – from prehistory onwards – Zemeckis’s sentimental drama is an odd combination of cosmic ambition and domestic intimacy

William Tell review – limbs fly as Claes Bang’s medieval hero rallies a Swiss army

A classy cast plays it straight in this enjoyably daft action epic about the crossbow sharpshooter forced to shoot an apple from his son’s head

‘A kitten on heat with a racy physique’: the mystery of the bloodcurdling cat screech used in hundreds of movies

From Babe to Pet Sematary to Toy Story, the same furious yowl crops up in film after film. So who was the cat and who made the recording? We solve the enigma of the ‘Wilhelm Miaow’

Behind the Candelabra – the Liberace biopic as sordid as its subject

Steven Soderbergh’s TV film honours the master pianist in the only appropriate way: with lurid spectacle

Werewolves review – post-apocalyptic lupine horror makes an enemy of the moonlight

In Steven C Miller’s intermittently effective film a supermoon turns those exposed to its light into werewolves – or rather people wearing hairy Halloween masks

Panda Plan review – Jackie Chan on fighting form in a goofy cute-animal rescue yarn

Chan, now 70, rehearses his trademark action comedy chops playing a film star battling bad guys to protect a CGI panda cub

Most romcoms don’t dare ask what women in their 30s really want. We Live In Time does

Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield’s bold new film about a woman who falls in love and then gets an ovarian cancer diagnosis tackles messy questions about motherhood most films won’t touch

‘Like a big box of chocolates’: Tom Hanks puts his typewriters on display

The actor has shared selected items from his famous collection for a new exhibition taking place in Sag Harbor