It Was Just an Accident review – Jafar Panahi takes us on a nightmare trip into a land of bribes and brutality

An unfortunate encounter with a dog sets off a chain of surreal, grotesque events that expose the corruption and tyranny at the heart of Iran

The Ice Tower review – Marion Cotillard focus of obsession and idolisation in death-wish fairytale

Cotillard plays a movie actor starring in a production of The Snow Queen in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s unwholesome story of yearning

Killer hounds, rabid chimps and a tiny Jean Dujardin – the Sitges film festival 2025

Pets gone rogue, vomiting and martial arts were recurrent themes in this year’s annual roundup of fantasy, horror and cult movies

100 Nights of Hero review – Emma Corrin leads starry cast in a queer fable with a serious streak

Gender, sexuality, status and power are all in flux in Julia Jackman’s playful medieval fairytale, adapted from Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel, also starring Maika Monroe and Charli xcx

Giant review – Prince Naseem biopic with Pierce Brosnan on hand misses the punch

Despite the odd laugh, the story of the boxer’s path from Sheffield gyms to global stardom and his break with mentor Brendan Ingle feels dramatically underweight

Lady review – outrageous mockumentary is like Saltburn on shrooms

With supreme entitlement, Sian Clifford’s Lady Isabella shines as ‘aristocracy’s answer to the Kardashians’ in this barnstorming comedy

Louder than Bombs: Joachim Trier’s thorniest film might be his best

The director of Sentimental Value and The Worst Person in the World made his English-language debut with this divisive family drama in 2015. It’s worth watching for Isabelle Huppert alone

Good Boy review – Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough turn nasty in Kubrickian absurdist nightmare

London film festival: Jan Komasa’s bracingly wicked tale follows a couple who plan to retrain an delinquent teen with a brutal regimen

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia

Lynne Ramsay’s passion, Jim Jarmusch’s star turn and knives come out again: Peter Bradshaw’s London film festival picks

Among this year’s must-sees Jennifer Lawrence brings gothic steam, Daniel Craig takes a new case and a constellation of luminaries get cosmic

Homebound review – emotionally rich study of friends in rural India trying to get home in the pandemic

Neeraj Ghaywan’s film benefits from excellent lead performances, strong cinematography and an apparent mentorship from Martin Scorsese

Shakespeare, vampires and MMA: where does this year’s Oscar race stand?

As the fall festivals come to a close, the awards season is slowly taking shape but without a substantial amount of sure things, questions remain

American independent cinema owes much to Sundance king Robert Redford

With his Sundance film festival and institute, Robert Redford used his considerable power to bring generations of talented film-makers to a bigger audience

Robert Redford: the incandescently handsome star who changed Hollywood forever

Robert Redford, who has died at the age of 89, began as a blond bombshell at a time when American cinema favoured grit, then turned into a supremely assured director and unlikely keeper of the indie flame

Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89

Redford achieved huge critical and commercial success in the 60s and 70s with a string of hits including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Way We Were and The Sting, before becoming an Oscar-winning director