Ambiguous Japanese eco-drama wins London film festival top prize
Evil Does Not Exist, directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, is about community’s fight against ‘glamping’ development
Starve Acre review – intelligent performances in sinister Yorkshire folk horror
Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark play an unhappy couple who have moved to the moors with their young son, and soon become entwined in the occult
SXSW Sydney explained: how will the Austin festival work in Australia – and who is it for?
The music, screen and tech worlds will converge for the festival’s first staging outside the US – but tickets are pricey for an event that’s hard to get a handle on
Martin Scorsese tells young film-makers to embrace new tech for ‘serious’ work
Director in London for Killers of the Flower Moon premiere says it is time to ‘rethink what you want to say and how you want to say it’
Saltburn review – hot Brideshead soup needs more seasoning
Emerald Fennell’s followup to Promising Young Woman boasts dazzling turns from Rosamund Pike and Carey Mulligan, but the script could have used another all-nighter in the library
London film festival: privilege and poverty collide in big British cinema showcase
Emerald Fennell’s starry Saltburn opens this year’s festival, with Daniel Kaluuya’s directorial debut The Kitchen closing – bookending a banner year for UK cinema
The Old Oak review – Ken Loach’s fierce final call for compassion and solidarity
A northern pub landlord confronts locals’ hostility towards Syrian refugees in Loach’s latest – and possibly last – piece of politically trenchant cinema
RMN review – sickness beneath the skin as racism breaks out in Romanian village
Latest from Cristian Mungiu is a low-key drama about a multi-ethnic community in Transylvania who turn on a group of Sri Lankan immigrants
From Poor Things to American Fiction: where does this year’s Oscar race stand?
With the major fall film festivals out of the way, this year’s unusual strike-affected awards season is starting to shape up
Literary satire American Fiction takes Toronto film festival’s top award
Cord Jefferson’s story of a novelist (Jeffrey Wright) grappling with the publishing industry’s expectations of black writers is now practically guaranteed serious Oscar consideration
Toronto film festival 2023 roundup – solidarity, swearing, swimming and one standout film
While a clutch of directorial debuts by actors mostly misfired, a return to form for Alexander Payne and award-worthy performances by Jamie Foxx and Jodie Comer offered plenty to get excited about
The Royal Hotel review – feminist thriller starts strong but can’t stay the course
Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick are both impressive in an uneasy Australia-set film toying with genre expectations but tension dissipates in the finale
Fingernails review – Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed’s chemistry can’t save paper-thin love story
Christos Nikou’s English-language debut aims to be a sadistically comical treatment of relationship insecurity, but ends up saying little
The End We Start From review – Jodie Comer compels in solid survival drama
A magnificent lead performance elevates a simple, yet mostly effective, adaptation of Megan Hunter’s apocalyptic novel
Wildcat review – Ethan Hawke directs daughter in mediocre literary biopic
Maya Hawke makes for an unconvincing Flannery O’Connor in an obvious, misfiring drama that takes big creative swings but mostly misses