Christy review – Sydney Sweeney fights a losing battle in cliched boxing biopic
The rising star makes for a convincing boxer inside the ring in David Michôd’s by-the-numbers drama but flounders when outside
Steve review – Cillian Murphy is outstanding in ferocious reform school drama
Adapted by Max Porter from his novella Shy and co-starring Little Simz, Emily Watson and Tracey Ullman this brutal but ultimately hopeful story is fiercely affecting
The Choral review – Ralph Fiennes makes pleasant music in low-volume drama
The actor is a reliably committed presence in this gentle Alan Bennett-scripted first world war tale which might have worked better on stage
Saipan review – football scandal makes for thrilling big-screen drama
Steve Coogan and a knockout Éanna Hardwicke take on Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane in this involving workplace drama about a 2002 tabloid storm
‘Humanity is facing a reckoning’: Venice film festival shrugs off the glamour to take aim at politics
Stars waved as usual from the city’s water taxis, but there was a repeated focus on films that help audiences interpret a chaotic world
Meet your descendants – and your future self! A trip to Venice film festival’s extended reality island
A flourishing lineup of immersive storytelling experiments are taking visitors into novels, nightclubs and outer space
Erupcja review – Charli xcx gives acting a trial run in shallow friendship drama
Musician fails to make much of an impression in a slight and unpolished project filmed in Warsaw over the Brat summer of 2024
The Voice of Hind Rajab review – provocative docufiction is fierce, urgent and heart-shattering
In an audacious move, director Kaouther Ben Hania reconstructs the killing of the five-year-old in Gaza using her real voice as she is bombarded by the Israeli army
From Knives Out 3 to Soderbergh: 10 films to look out for at the Toronto film festival 2025
Stars including Daniel Craig, Michaela Coel, Keanu Reeves and Channing Tatum to present latest films to big audiences
The Voice of Hind Rajab gets 23-minute ovation at Venice film festival
Film about five-year-old girl killed by Israeli forces in Gaza leaves much of audience and many journalists sobbing
Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Mescal, Lynne Ramsay and George Clooney set for London film festival
The festival marks the return of Day-Lewis to the screen in a film directed by his son, while a roster of urgent political films also form part of this year’s slate
Dead Man’s Wire review – Gus Van Sant calls the shots with surreal true-crime thriller
Al Pacino, Colman Domingo and Myha’la excel in this gripping take on the events of 1977 when an Indianapolis businessman held his mortgage broker hostage
A House of Dynamite review – Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white-knuckle comeback
Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Tracy Letts star in this immaculately constructed nightmare procedural that ticks down the minutes from an atomic bomb’s launch to its detonation
The Smashing Machine review – Dwayne Johnson only possible casting as crisis-riddled UFC champ Mark Kerr
Former pro wrestler Johnson takes on the role of man-mountain Kerr who goes into meltdown when the unthinkable happens – he loses
The Testament of Ann Lee review – strikingly strange portrait of radically ecstatic Shaker leader
Amanda Seyfried plays the 18th-century missionary who took her radical message to the New World, in Mona Fastvold’s elusive film