Streaming: the best private-eye movies
Jo Nesbø adaptation Killer Heat is the latest in a long line of detective films, from Chinatown and The Long Goodbye to the Knives Out series
Effortless skill, mixed salads and a certain impatience with life: Michael Palin remembers Maggie Smith
Smith’s costar in two 80s comedies shares his memories of an actor blessed with an instinctive grasp of her craft
Megalopolis to Industry: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Francis Ford Coppola’s grandiose, dystopian sci-fi is finally unleashed, and the young City bankers go green with Lord Muck
‘She found life hysterically funny and unbearably painful’: Maggie Smith remembered by Nicholas Hytner
The stage and screen director, who filmed Smith in The Lady in the Van, recalls her unblinking wit at work on stage in A German Life
Mike Newell on Maggie Smith: ‘She never bit me, but if she did bite, you stayed bitten’
Director of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire says formidable actor brought many things to a set, including ‘terror’Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89
Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89
In a career that began in the 1950s, her roles ranged from Desdemona to Miss Jean Brodie, Virginia Woolf and Minerva McGonagall
Remembering Maggie Smith: ‘Every day she and Judi would swim in their Victorian swimsuits and every day we would all laugh and laugh’
The writer of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel remembers working with an actor impossible to separate from her withering but warm screen persona
Maggie Smith was the grandest of grandes dames – and a true cinematic superstar
Before she reached a new level of TV celebrity in the 21st century, Smith had a remarkable big-screen career, channelling her stage presence into the camera whether as Jean Brodie or her tragic, absurd ‘aunt’ persona
Dame Maggie Smith obituary
A distinguished, double Oscar-winning actor whose roles ranged from Shakespeare to Harry Potter
Share your tributes and memories of Maggie Smith
We would like to hear your memories of Maggie Smith – whether you met her, or appreciated her work as an actor
Cinema in mafia boss’s Sicily hometown refuses to show film of his life
Venue owner says Sicilian Letters, about the Cosa Nostra leader Matteo Messina Denaro, ‘doesn’t interest me’
Maggie Smith’s 20 best films – ranked!
As we mourn her passing, we rate the star’s greatest big screen performances, from spinsterish aunt to voracious seducer, Harry Potter’s teacher to Muriel Spark’s haughtiest heroine
Maggie Smith: the magisterial star of Harry Potter and Downton had the courage and talent to do absolutely everything
The real-life dame and on-screen dowager countess, who has died aged 89, earned fame in her 70s and 80s for blockbuster roles. But her early work at the National Theatre marked her out as a talent for the ages
Can Marvel’s Thunderbolts* avoid the mistakes of DC’s Suicide Squad?
Next year’s apparent climax to Marvel’s ‘Phase Five’ features an Avengers B-team with the little-remembered Bucky Barnes and Ghost among the sidekicks and also-rans
Wolfs to Inside Out 2: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Brad Pitt and George Clooney reunite for a fun, frantic and easy-on-the-eye crime caper, and Riley hits puberty as the hit animation gets a worthy sequel