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Dau film review — the art house strikes back in staggering Soviet-set masterpiece
Where to begin with Dau? Let’s start by calling it a modern masterpiece.
Elon Musk documentary hits Venice Film Festival with cold dose of reality
There was a time when film festivals were the preserve of glamorous stars and revered directors.
Wild Horse Nine review — John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell spar in a blackly comic portrait of US decline
At an edition of the Venice Film Festival otherwise notably low on American star wattage, one of the first out of the gate is the woozy...
Primetime film review — Robert Pattinson is silkily vampiric as a TV paedophile-hunter
Who watches the watchmen?
Djokovic vs Jordan: getting into the minds of sporting GOATs
When you’ve reached the peak of excellence, how do you move on?
Michelle Wolf on escaping finance for comedy, the US for Europe and hate from Trump
Donald Trump and I have something in common: we have both been roasted by Michelle Wolf.
Masters of the Universe film review — He-Man detoxed for the age of the manosphere
As if masculinity didn’t have enough problems, here comes He-Man, last seen on a movie screen in a Reagan-era flop of legend.
Christian conservatism and secular liberalism clash as Fjord wins Cannes Palme d’Or
The 2026 Palme d’Or has been awarded to Fjord, the story of a devout Christian couple who move to a small town in Norway and must fight...
Cannes round-up: blacklisting, boos and the rampant ego of filmmakers
Cannes jury president Park Chan-wook said at the outset of this year’s festival he was ready for “fierce debates”.
Bitter Christmas film review — Almodóvar at his most acerbic
Among a strong showing of Spanish films in Cannes this year, the name Pedro Almodóvar still stands out. And the maestro doesn’t disappoint.
Fjord — Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve are magnetic in this highly charged drama
Cannes jury president Park Chan-wook said he was ready for “fierce debates” at the outset of this year’s festival.
The Beloved film review — Javier Bardem simmers in tense father-daughter drama
Father-daughter relations are emerging as one of the dominant themes at Cannes this year.
All of a Sudden film review — three-hour care home drama is already a Cannes standout
Nobody was expecting a 196-minute film about dementia, encroaching death and broken capitalism to be the most uplifting film of Cannes’s...
Fatherland film review — Thomas Mann confronts a haunted postwar Germany
In an edition of Cannes where Hollywood studio movies are notably absent and the emphasis is firmly on international auteur cinema, they...
The highs and lows of the 2026 Oscars
The 98th Academy Awards was a night of firsts Oscars night is hardly known for its trailblazing originality but this year did bring a...
Who should win the Oscars this weekend? Vote now!
Best picture Danny Leigh, FT film critic: I’m not sure how a movie as weird as One Battle After Another became the safe bet of the Oscar...
Jamie Lee Curtis: ‘My gift is that I have a joy of life’
Jamie Lee Curtis bursts into the room in a blaze of volcanic red, her three-piece velvet suit matched by her explosive energy.
Eight hot tickets at this year’s London Film Festival
Like a cherry picker scaling the highest peaks of the cinematic landscape, the London Film Festival can select the choicest offerings...
The villains of the Venice Film Festival? War and corporate power
Every so often a film arrives that sends shockwaves through a festival. In Venice this year it took its time to arrive.
Venice Film Festival makes starry start with George Clooney, Emma Stone and Julia Roberts premieres
Movies need film festivals. And film festivals need movie stars.
Wimbledon 2025: the players to watch
This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s guide to London Something will be missing from Wimbledon this year.
Cannes Film Festival round-up: revered regulars, rising stars and in Godard we trust
There is only one Cannes Film Festival. Or is there? Depending on whom you speak to, experiences vary.
Cannes: The History of Sound review — Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor star in minor-key gay romance
If folk music were a colour, what shade would it be?
Cannes: The Chronology of Water film review — Imogen Poots shines in Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut
Kristen Stewart has a history of doing things her own way — including here at the Cannes Film Festival.
Cannes: Nouvelle Vague film review — giddy homage to Godard the great disrupter
It takes a serious amount of chutzpah for an American to bring a film about the French New Wave to Cannes — the cinematic equivalent of...
Cannes: Die, My Love film review — Jennifer Lawrence is terrifyingly good as a new mother on the edge
In 2011, Lynne Ramsay startled Cannes with her scalding portrait of mother-son relations We Need to Talk About Kevin.
Cannes: Eddington film review — Joaquin Phoenix turns sheriff in gory allegory for what’s eating America
“Your being manipulated,” reads one of the slogans emblazoned on the campaign pick-up truck driven around town by Joe Cross, a small-town...
The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay — the making of a tennis great
As recently as last December, Rafael Nadal was listed by bookmakers among the favourites to win this month’s French Open.
Andor season 2 review — the most satisfying addition to Star Wars’ streaming era
“It is a period of civil war.” So began the opening crawl of the first Star Wars film in 1977.
Black Mirror star Paul Giamatti: ‘AI is creepy and scary, but it’s inevitable’
“I’m really surprised this is going so well,” says Paul Giamatti early on in our conversation.
Captain America: Brave New World review — even hulking Harrison Ford can’t save it
The US president is an alarmingly lurid colour and on the rampage, wreaking destruction and diplomatic havoc while being influenced by a...
Brady Corbet y su nueva película: El Brutalista
¿Qué lleva a un exactor millennial educado en una escuela católica nacido en Scottsdale, Arizona, a dedicar siete años a una película sobre las tribulaciones de un arquitecto judío-húngaro exiliado en la posguerra? Esta es la pregunta que más ronda por mi cabeza cuando me reúno con Brady Corbet, de 36 años, en un día gris como el cemento en la suite de un hotel en el centro de Londres.
Brady Corbet on his Oscar-tipped film The Brutalist: ‘I don’t really belong to anywhere’
What compels a Catholic-school-educated millennial ex-actor born in Scottsdale, Arizona, to devote seven years to a film about the...
The wild inside story of Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice
When Gabriel Sherman embarked on dramatising the life of Donald Trump, he knew he was in for a bumpy ride. And so it proved.
Five last-minute tickets for the London Film Festival
This year’s BFI London Film Festival begins on October 9 and is selling out fast.
Joker: Folie à Deux film review — killer clown turns crooner in sedated sequel
That’s entertainment. They build you up and then they knock you down.
Daniel Craig puts Bond behind him in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer — review
How does an actor shake off the burdensome mantle of Bond?
Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore debate love and death in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door — review
Woody Allen has twice made movies in Spain — Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Rifkin’s Festival.
Five stars for The Brutalist — postwar epic of architecture and survival with Adrien Brody
One of the early images in Brady Corbet’s striking new film The Brutalist is of the Statue of Liberty turned on her head.
Nicole Kidman jump-starts the erotic thriller in Babygirl — review
What has got into Nicole Kidman?
Disclaimer review — Cate Blanchett has a dark secret in frothy but moreish miniseries
Happily, we have reached the point where movies and prestige TV series can coexist peacefully at film festivals without immediately...
Angelina Jolie makes a glamorous Callas in Pablo Larraín’s Maria — review
Did Maria Callas really once burn a pile of her own costumes? Yes, admits the superstar soprano.
Transcript: Roger Federer is too nice for documentaries
This is an audio transcript of the Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast episode: ‘Roger Federer is too nice for documentaries’ Lilah...
Federer: Twelve Final Days film review — lachrymose lap of honour lacks game
Tennis matches and documentaries thrive on the same thing: tension.
Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez star in gory narco-musical Emilia Pérez — Cannes film review
Emilia Pérez is a soft-spoken, doting mother of two living a peaceful life in a plush suburb in Mexico.
The Apprentice is a powerful portrait of Donald Trump’s beginnings — Cannes film review
“Donald has no shame.” This could well be part of the judge’s summing-up at the conclusion of Trump’s current hush-money trial, but for...
Limonov: The Ballad is swaggering, sexy, shrewd, unsettling — Cannes film review
“There’s no point in asking, you’ll get no reply,” snarls John Lydon on the soundtrack to Kirill Serebrennikov’s swaggering, sexy and...
Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis is a painfully awful labour of love - Cannes review
Will every year now bring a spectacular fall from grace from another great of 1970s cinema? That's the depressing thought that descends while watching Francis Ford Coppola's sprawlingly awful Megalopolis at Cannes before the scars left by Roman Polanski's have properly healed.
Yorgos Lanthimos returns with twisted triptych Kinds of Kindness — Cannes film review
Director Yorgos Lanthimos comes down from the Olympian Oscar success of The Favourite and last year’s Poor Things for the twisted...
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