Film
Why Anatomy of a Fall should win the best picture Oscar
Justine Triet’s psychothriller was shut out by France’s Oscar committee, but this genre-bending courtroom procedural, marriage drama and whodunnit feels totally new
Rebecca Liu
28, Feb, 2024 @8:00 AM
‘It has become a sort of silver bullet’: why are rap lyrics being put on trial?
In compelling documentary As We Speak, a controversial legal practice that uses rap lyrics to secure convictions is explored
Adrian Horton
27, Feb, 2024 @6:50 PM
Israeli director receives death threats after officials call Berlin film festival ‘antisemitic’
Yuval Abraham criticises German officials, saying statement devalues term ‘antisemitism’ and puts Jewish lives in danger
Philip Oltermann European culture editor
27, Feb, 2024 @6:04 PM
Sex, lies and sundowners: Robin Campillo on turning his army brat childhood into a film
The cult director grew up on the luscious island of Madagascar just as it was casting off French rule. It was a deliriously happy time for him – but now he realises what was really going on
Peter Bradshaw
27, Feb, 2024 @3:07 PM
Steven Soderbergh’s Solaris remake puzzled audiences 20 years ago – but it deserves a second chance
Starring George Clooney and Natascha McElhone, Soderbergh reimagines a three-hour sci-fi classic as a brisk romantic drama – and it works
Kevin Bui
27, Feb, 2024 @2:00 PM
Ryan Gosling tipped to sing I’m Just Ken at the Oscars
Variety reports that the Barbie star will perform the film’s keynote anthem at the Academy Awards on 10 March
Catherine Shoard
27, Feb, 2024 @12:12 PM
Defoe review – disarmingly honest portrait of a star footballer
The West Ham and Tottenham striker considers a rags-to-riches career that began as a schoolkid, and the scandals that followed, with unusual openness
Andrew Pulver
27, Feb, 2024 @11:00 AM
Driving Mum review – happy-sad Icelandic road movie hits the spot
This quirky story of a lonely farmer and his deceased mother celebrates the Nordic country’s breathtaking landscape
Leslie Felperin
27, Feb, 2024 @9:00 AM
Why American Fiction should win the best picture Oscar
Jeffrey Wright is in a role of a lifetime as a frustrated Black professor driven to write a cliche-riddled crime saga – and makes universal his struggle to be seen and heard
Jordan Hoffman
27, Feb, 2024 @8:00 AM
Tropic review – morally ambiguous sci-fi predicts the departure of the fittest
Director Édouard Salier tells the story of twin brothers training to become stellar explorers. But whether we should accept that space is reserved for humanity’s best remains unclear
Leslie Felperin
27, Feb, 2024 @7:00 AM
Suffering for her tart: how Emma Stone ate 60 Portuguese custard pastries for Poor Things
The race for best actress Oscar is a tight one, so it’s important to understand that Stone really did stuff herself for her role in Yorgos Lanthimos’s movie
Stuart Heritage
26, Feb, 2024 @5:31 PM
‘I recently went back to the Texas border – and urinated on the wall’: how we made Lone Star
‘The film was 20 years ahead of its time. Look at what we’re dealing with now – border conflict is a nightmare’
Interviews by Phil Hoad
26, Feb, 2024 @2:59 PM
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