The Good Boy review – Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough turn nasty in Kubrickian absurdist nightmare
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
Hamnet wins top award at the Toronto film festival
Chloé Zhao’s Shakespeare drama has picked up the people’s choice award, which has become predictor of Oscar success
Eternity review – it’s a charming afterlife in high-concept love triangle comedy
Elizabeth Olsen must choose who she spends eternity with in an often ingenious throwback that can’t quite stick the landing
The Fence review – Claire Denis stumbles with a grim and grating misfire
The French director has made of one her least effective movies with this dull and clunkily adapted version of 1979 play with a miscast Matt Dillon at its centre
James McAvoy reportedly assaulted in Toronto bar
Actor promoting his directorial debut California Schemin’ at the city’s film festival is reported to have been punched by another drinker
Couture review – Angelina Jolie is the wrong fit for inert fashion drama
The Oscar winner is adrift in Alice Winocour’s uninvolving film, premiering in Toronto, about three thinly written women involved in Paris fashion week show
Nuns vs the Vatican: documentary alleges sexual abuse and misconduct in the Catholic church
A new film, premiering at the Toronto film festival, follows women who claim to have been abused by a former Jesuit priest
The Christophers review – Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel spar in smart Soderbergh original
The actors play off each other beautifully in an intimate London-set comedy drama about art, commerce and the mess in-between