All We Imagine As Light review – Cannes prize-winning Indian drama is a quiet, tender marvel
Payal Kapadia’s poetic, everyday tale of three women who work at the same hospital is all the more remarkable for being her fiction feature debut
Let it show: find an event for every day until Christmas with our culture advent calendar
From The Nutcracker in Glasgow and the Human League in Cardiff to Messiaen in Manchester and Maggie Mistletoe in Farnham, our critics pick the best cultural events in the run-up to Christmas
Moana 2 review – Disney’s most intrepid heroine is as sparky as ever
The livewire teen sets sail with a new crew in this vividly realised mythic romp
Mark Kermode on… director Mike Leigh, who mines the comedy and tragedy of life
From Nuts in May to Vera Drake and the forthcoming Hard Truths, Leigh’s unique creative process gives us perfectly crafted dramas and characters who feel real
Indie films losing out to obsession with bankable stars, says Richard Eyre
British director whose career is being celebrated at the BFI says creative industry increasingly wants safe bets
From Conclave to Michael Kiwanuka – a complete guide to the week’s entertainment in the UK
Cardinal Ralph Fiennes picks a pope (and potentially an Oscar), and the Mercury prize winner returns with another intimate gem
Jim Abrahams obituary
Writer and director who was part of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team behind the classic film spoofs Airplane! and The Naked Gun
‘More brains than brawn’: will the new Captain America be hamstrung by his lack of superpowers?
Marvel has decided to take Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson right back to the superhero stone age with its latest iteration, in which he will basically have no power at all
Rochelle Stevens obituary
Other lives: Literary agent who showed as much care and dedication for smaller passion projects as she did for commercial big hitters
‘It’s wonderful’: Wicked star Cynthia Erivo says she’s fine with audiences singing along
The actor who plays Elphaba in the big screen adaptation of the musical joined the debate declaring ‘we spent this long singing it ourselves – it’s time for everyone else to join in’
‘Inside the Kellyverse’: how Paul Kelly’s How to Make Gravy became a Christmas film
Megan Washington and Hugo Weaving share how Kelly’s anthem inspired a ‘beautiful opportunity for redemption’, while Kelly reveals he’s ‘playing around with a sequel’ to his song
That Christmas to Beatles ’64: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Richard Curtis gets the festive season off to a cracking start with a bubbly animation, plus Martin Scorsese’s fly-on-the-wall epic about the Fab Four on tour
‘I just had to rejoice’: the brilliance and tragedy of ‘fifth Beatle’ Billy Preston
A magnetically vibrant keyboard prodigy who played on Let It Be and worked with George Harrison, Preston later lived through years of addiction. A new film aims to find ‘the dark and the light’ in his story
‘That’s my own hair. I can really grow whiskers’: Amy Adams and Marielle Heller on toddlers, incontinence and Nightbitch
The film adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s 2021 novel offers a whip-smart depiction of motherhood – and some icky body horror. Its director and star talk awful husbands, menstrual blood and canine transformation
Denzel Washington at 70: his 20 greatest films – ranked!
Ahead of his birthday next month, we celebrate the filmography of Washington, from his charisma-oozing role in Cry Freedom to his colossal performance in Gladiator II