Film

After We Fell review – Harry Styles-inspired romance is stupendously wooden

Fans of the YA After series should find something amid the tangled mess of plot, daytime-soap acting and inanimate passion – everyone else should look away

Cath Clarke

18, Oct, 2021 @4:00 PM

West Side Story at 60: the dazzlingly modern musical that’ll be hard to beat

With Steven Spielberg’s remake almost out, the 1961 original still feels thrillingly contemporary, a tough act to follow

Guy Lodge

18, Oct, 2021 @2:52 PM

The Bacchus Lady review – Youn Yuh-jung leads tale of life on the margins in Seoul

The Oscar winner is a compelling lead in an unconventional drama about an ageing prostitute in the Korean capital

Phil Hoad

18, Oct, 2021 @1:00 PM

Warning review – sci-fi anthology like Black Mirror sketches that didn’t make the cut

Connected stories of a doomed AI-human hybrid future struggle to hang together

Leslie Felperin

18, Oct, 2021 @11:00 AM

In Our Paradise review – Bosnian migrant tale about sisters struggling to make it abroad

Claudia Marschal’s documentary about two sisters leaving the Balkans is short on the intimacy that film can deliver

Phuong Le

18, Oct, 2021 @9:00 AM

Michael Caine on Brexit, Boris Johnson and big breaks: ‘I’ve done 150 movies. I think that’s enough’

He blew the doors off in the 60s as part of an upstart generation of actors. As he releases a new film and tries his hand at novel-writing, is he about to make a clean getaway from the movie business?

Xan Brooks

18, Oct, 2021 @5:00 AM

Iranian family road trip movie wins top prize at London film festival

Panah Panahi’s Hit the Road wins award for ‘distinctive film-making that captures essence of cinema’

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

17, Oct, 2021 @3:30 PM

Venom: Let There Be Carnage review – sufficient superhero sequel

Tom Hardy returns as journalist Eddie Brock and the alien who shares his body, played for daft laughs by director Andy Serkis

Simran Hans

17, Oct, 2021 @10:30 AM

Ron’s Gone Wrong review – boy meets bot, bot beats bullies

This story of a young loner lent confidence by an animatronic accomplice is fun if familiar

Simran Hans

17, Oct, 2021 @10:00 AM

The Last Duel review – swordplay without subtlety

Ridley Scott gets bogged down in medieval mud and murk as he attempts to tell a rape-revenge story starring Jodie Comer, Matt Damon and Adam Driver

Mark Kermode, Observer film critic

17, Oct, 2021 @7:00 AM

Bull review – a gangland revenge shocker with Neil Maskell on vicious form

You don’t expect soft from Maskell and you don’t get it, in Paul Andrew Williams’s queasy criminal underworld

Peter Bradshaw

16, Oct, 2021 @9:20 PM

I Am Belmaya review – uplifting story of a Nepali woman following her film-making dream

In the face of many obstacles, a Dalit woman proves her determination to forge a career as a film-maker