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  • A person wearing a white headband device with sensors sits in a white cushioned chair

    Signal One review – Dennis Quaid and David Thewlis star in high-concept, low-risk first contact yarn

    Sci-fi about the inventor of a device to communicate with aliens, in which scientists spend too much time talking astrophysics at each other
  • A still from How to Feed a Dictator

    ‘A man of great appetites’: what’s it like to be a dictator’s personal chef?

  • Prod DB A© La Folie des Hommes - Pink Pictures Ltd. / DR PINK NARCISSUS (PINK NARCISSUS) de James Bidgood 1971 USA avec Bobby Kendall imagerie homosexuelle, Narcisse, cinema Gay, kitsch, homme nu, miroir, refletPNRNKB Prod DB A© La Folie des Hommes - Pink Pictures Ltd. / DR PINK NARCISSUS (PINK NARCISSUS) de James Bidgood 1971 USA A shirtless person lies on their side in bed under pink and blue lighting, with ornate mirrors visible in the background

    Pink Narcissus review – garish colour and dreamlike images in a homoerotic vision of 60s New York

  • A couple in sparkly costumes embrace, looking at something off-camera, in what appears to be a ballroom setting. Paul Mercurio and Tara Morice in Strictly Ballroom.

    ‘Screaming girls chased me down the street’: how we made Strictly Ballroom

  • Sean Penn, pictured at a Cannes film festival press conference in 2023

    How much does Sean Penn hate selfies? Enough to invoke the Holocaust

  • Joan Collins in A Murder Between Friends

    A Murder Between Friends review – Joan Collins’s detective diva sparkles in trashy whodunnit

  • Idris Elba in a blue suit and dark scarf smiles softly at the camera at a red carpet event

    Idris Elba says audiences would never accept a black actor playing James Bond: ‘That’s not what they like in their culture’

  • man in bloodied sweatshirt looks ahead

    Obsession – nasty horror sees a wish for true love go horribly wrong

  • Two women with blond braids sit in a car

    Is God Is – fiery revenge thriller flies from stage to screen

  • Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise square up to one another

    Top Gun – now impossible to view Tom Cruise’s testosterone-swamped film without affection

  • Undated film still from Mortal Kombat II. Pictured: Hiroyuki Sanada as Scorpion. See PA Feature SHOWBIZ Film Reviews. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature SHOWBIZ Film Reviews. PA Photo. Picture credit should read: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. NOTE TO EDITORS: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature SHOWBIZ Film Reviews.

    Mortal Kombat II – junky game-to-movie sequel offers more of the same

  • Flock of sheep in field with Airstream trailer in The Sheep Detectives

    The Sheep Detectives – Hugh Jackman gives a flock in baa-rking mad cosy crime caper

  • Billie Eilish in Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour Live in 3D.

    Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour – style trumps substance in James Cameron’s 3D oddity

  • A woman touching the glass of an octopus tank

    Remarkably Bright Creatures – Sally Field bonds with octopus in gentle Netflix charmer

  • Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada 2.

    The Devil Wears Prada 2 – a sequel? For spring? Groundbreaking

  • Adam Scott in Hokum

    Hokum – Adam Scott dour and grumpy in enjoyably eerie rural horror

  • SWAPPED - A buddy comedy about a small woodland creature (voiced by Michael B. Jordan) and a majestic bird (voiced by Juno Temple)—natural sworn enemies of The Valley—who suddenly swap bodies and must team up (while walking in each other’s feathers and fur) to survive the wildest adventure of their lives. Cr: Skydance Animation/Netflix © 2025

    Swapped – animated Netflix adventure plays like off-brand Pixar

  • Quentin Tarantino in a black polo shirt looks directly at the camera against a bright window background

    ‘I’d rather read a book’: Tarantino criticises ‘flavourless sausage factory’ Hollywood

  • Visitors wearing Mickey and Minnie Mouse ears take selfies in front of castle

    Disney racks up $4.2bn deficit on Paris parks

  • A man and a mustache

    Shia LaBeouf pleads guilty to battery charges over New Orleans bar incident

  • Nastassja Kinski holds a microphone and rests her chin on her hand, smiling warmly

    Wim Wenders withdraws 1975 film featuring 13-year-old Nastassja Kinski topless

  • Matt Damon as Odysseus in The Odyssey

    double quotation markWhat the Hellenic! Why is Christopher Nolan’s new Greek epic entirely devoid of Greeks?

    Chris Cotonou
  • Cristian Mungiu in a tuxedo holds up the Palme d'Or trophy in its presentation case

    Cannes film festival
    double quotation markCannes got it wrong this year by awarding Palme d’Or to Cristian Mungiu’s very moderate Fjord

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Lauren Sánchez Bezos and Jeff Bezos in Venice, Italy, June 2025.

    double quotation markIs Jeff Bezos the real villain of The Devil Wears Prada 2?

    Louis Staples
  • Man with Jheri curl and elevator-attendant-style jacket stands on riser in middle of New York City street with dozens on hands in the air reaching toward him.

    double quotation markMichael might be a cowardly, cursed biopic but his fans are happy to live in a fantasy

    Jesse Hassenger
  • An older woman in a patterned blouse leans her face on one hand.

    ‘My life is about beauty’: Julie Newmar at 92 on shocking the world as Catwoman – and caring for her son

  • She stands outside in a pink dressing gown, looking worried

    Sex, austerity and mugs of vodka: how the Greek myth Iphigenia became a Welsh-language film sensation

  • Mark Williams in the recreated Weasley home

    Mark Williams: ‘I browsed tractor magazines with Robbie Coltrane on the set of Harry Potter’

  • Director Robert dos Santos with the VHS of his film This is how the world ends. Film going straight to video

    ‘I’m asking people to do a lot, but that’s what it means to be a human’: why one man made the first straight-to-video movie in 20 years

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