Arrival

Aliens, artists and Abscam: Amy Adams’ 20 best performances – ranked!

The six times Oscar-nominated actor, who turns 50 this month, stars in comedy horror Nightbitch releasing in December. We look back at some of her best roles

Anne Billson

08, Aug, 2024 @12:00 PM

Out of this world: Guardian writers on their favourite movies with aliens

To celebrate the release of Jordan Peele’s new UFO thriller Nope, critics have picked their top films about extra terrestrials

Charles Bramesco, Radheyan Simonpillai, Lisa Wong Macabasco, Benjamin Lee, Andrew Pulver, Scott Tobias, Veronica Esposito, Andrew Lawrence, Jesse Hassenger, AA Dowd and Adrian Horton

20, Jul, 2022 @6:04 AM

Why so serious? Tenet and the new wave of 'science-based' time travel movies

Films like Back to the Future and The Terminator never thought too deeply about time travel; so is Christopher Nolan draining all the fun out of it?

Alex Hess

09, Sep, 2020 @6:00 AM

Lost in space – why does watching modern sci-fi hurt my head?

As films such as Life and Arrival groan under the weight of microhydraulics, astral protozoa or the space-time continuum, swaths of the audience are being left behind

Joe Queenan

31, Mar, 2017 @7:00 AM

Arrival; Mum’s List; A United Kingdom and more – reviews

Denis Villeneuve’s astonishing and timely sci-fi is full of mind-melting discoveries, while Amma Asante’s latest historical drama sells its story short

Guy Lodge

19, Mar, 2017 @8:00 AM

Best picture chaos and Kimmel trolling Trump – the 2017 Oscars as it happened

From the announcement cockup to Gary from Chicago – catch up on all the Academy Awards news from the Oscars ceremony

Benjamin Lee, Hannah Marriott and Ellie Violet Bramley

27, Feb, 2017 @9:08 AM

Will Moonlight beat La La land? Our final Oscars 2017 awards predictions

The Academy Awards take place in Hollywood tonight – and you can follow all the action from 11pm GMT on theguardian.com. But first, it’s time for us to put our money where our mouth is

Guardian Film

27, Feb, 2017 @1:04 AM

Female film protagonists reached all-time high in 2016, study shows

Women made up 29% of leads in the top 100 films of last year, up 7% from 2015 thanks to Arrival, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Ghostbusters

Guardian film

21, Feb, 2017 @3:56 PM

Moonlight and Arrival land top prizes at Writers Guild awards

Barry Jenkins’ coming-of-age tale won best original screenplay while Eric Heisserer’s sci-fi drama took best adapted screenplay at the WGAs

Andrew Pulver

20, Feb, 2017 @12:45 PM

Baftas 2017: full list of winners

All the winners from the 2017 Bafta film awards

Guardian film

12, Feb, 2017 @8:59 PM

From The Americans to Drunk History: the best film and TV streaming in Australia this month

Eccentric artists, lethal weapons and drunk histories: we’ve scoured the local streaming services and picked out the best offerings

Lauren Carroll Harris

03, Feb, 2017 @9:36 PM

Vanity Fair's Hollywood issue: the year Amy Adams missed out on an Oscar

Poor Amy Adams – this year the acclaimed star of Nocturnal Animals and Arrival failed to get a nomination. Nobody expected it, least of all Vanity Fair

Stuart Heritage

27, Jan, 2017 @11:02 AM