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In the Shadows of Nuremberg review – trial-adjacent thriller aims to be Russian answer to Saving Private Ryan

A trivial personal plotline and a strain of maudlin patriotism undermine Nikolay Lebedev’s shaky telling of the Soviet side of the story

Phil Hoad2d ago

Primetime review – Robert Pattinson’s preening TV host hunts paedophiles but real drama proves harder to target

Venice film festival: Lance Oppenheim’s drama about controversial US reality show To Catch a Predator is unsure what it wants to say about media or morality

Peter Bradshaw2d ago

Imperium review – Sergei Loznitsa’s archive collage collates everyday life in cold-war Soviet Union

Venice film festival: The Two Prosecutors director cuts together documentary footage shot by a TV crew in the 1970s to try and get across what daily life in the USSR was like

Peter Bradshaw2d ago

Okurimono review – a heartbreaking dispatch from survivors of the Nagasaki bomb

Laurence Lévesque’s powerful documentary follows a woman who discovers a support network among her mother’s generation of survivors of the nuclear blast

Phuong Le2d ago

Unidentified Murder review – playful sendup of alien abduction and true crime influencers in Hong Kong

Childhood friends claim to have witnessed the disappearance of a schoolkid in this low-budget comedy caper that pushes limits of storytelling

Phuong Le2d ago

‘Sharks are my film stars’: how the Jacques Cousteau of the North Sea finally unlocked its beauty

Epic plankton blooms make filming in the North Sea notoriously difficult. But a new documentary gives a rare glimpse of the kaleidoscopic life – seals, sharks, tuna, orcas and shorthorn sculpins – lurking beneath its waves

Patrick Barkham2d ago

Woman Unknown review – postwar paranoia with some deliciously dastardly Du Maurier touches

A nanny becomes the new lady of a prosperous Copenhagen house as accused Nazi sympathisers are violently shamed in May el-Toukhy’s shrewd, painful portrait of survival

Peter Bradshaw2d ago

Cult of male genius holding female film-makers back, says Woman Unknown director

May el-Toukhy says we must end veneration of male directors that causes ‘structural problem’ for women

Philip Oltermann in Venice2d ago

Possible Love review – a tale of two couples is finely judged study of exploitation and friendship

Venice film festival: Acclaimed Korean director Lee Chang-dong returns with an inspired account of an unhappy married couple befriended by a documentary maker and her wealthy husband

Peter Bradshaw2d ago

Wim Wenders clarifies that he does not believe film-makers should stay out of politics

Director’s controversial comments earlier this year warned of films that ‘enter the field of politics’

Philip Oltermann in Venice2d ago

French thriller Jupiter brings nuclear anxiety to red carpets of Venice

Director Alexandre Smia says film about Russia detonating nuclear warhead – and US refusing to respond – is not unrealistic

Philip Oltermann in Venice3d ago

Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger review – mammoth tour movie brings the joy and poignancy of reunion

The Gallagher brothers’ comeback concerts are given the full fan-worship treatment, but it’s impossible to begrudge the euphoria they have created

Peter Bradshaw3d ago

Robert Pattinson says he had ‘twice as much time’ after birth of first child

Actor says of busy 2026 in which he has had several big roles: ‘Once you start spinning plates, it gets quite addictive’

Philip Oltermann in Venice3d ago

‘I don’t like the term neurodivergence – it sounds like political correctness’: Werner Herzog on fans, fanaticism and baby foxes

The Bavarian auteur talks directing Kate and Rooney Mara in Bucking Fastard and his popularity on Instagram

Philip Oltermann in Venice3d ago

A Long Winter review – hope, desire and subversion in Andrew Haigh’s beautiful winter western

In a remote Colorado farmstead, a family with a mother gone missing finds a strange buoyancy and freedom as they wait for the snows to melt

Peter Bradshaw4d ago

Tender Loving Care review – Mike Leigh’s tender and elusive study of love and mortality

Alice Bailey Johnson and Kate O’Flynn lead a tender, quietly heartbreaking drama about friendship, ageing parents and the sadness of lives moving inexorably on

Peter Bradshaw4d ago

Act 3 review – queer art history and life reflections from masters of metatextuality

Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s absorbing documentary is a parallel take on their relationship and a nascent drama on artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

Peter Bradshaw4d ago

The Basics of Philosophy review – Paul Schrader back to his cool, cruel best

When a figure from his past turns up to a family funeral, a college professor faces an agonising dilemma that makes him question his own morality and whether he can change

Peter Bradshaw4d ago

15/18 A Place to Heal review – heartfelt docu-realist study of a French teen psychiatric facility

Director Cédric Kahn combines compassion with coolly detailed forensic scrutiny in this genre-challenging film which puts a troubled love triangle at the centre of the story

Peter Bradshaw4d ago

‘Like a tired boxer, battered by applause’: as Andrew Scott’s biopic premieres, Richard Eyre remembers Ian Charleson’s superb, near-death Hamlet

In 1989, the Chariots of Fire actor took on the incredible task of playing Shakespeare’s prince while terminally ill from Aids. This weekend sees the world premiere of Elsinore, a new film about the episode, itself heavily-tipped for awards

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent4d ago

Latcho Drom director Tony Gatlif dies aged 77

Film-maker acclaimed for his celebrations of Roma culture had been working on a ‘historical film project’ in Provence

Andrew Pulver and agencies4d ago

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Film stories

In the Shadows of Nuremberg review – trial-adjacent thriller aims to be Russian answer to Saving Private Ryan

Primetime review – Robert Pattinson’s preening TV host hunts paedophiles but real drama proves harder to target

Imperium review – Sergei Loznitsa’s archive collage collates everyday life in cold-war Soviet Union

Okurimono review – a heartbreaking dispatch from survivors of the Nagasaki bomb

Unidentified Murder review – playful sendup of alien abduction and true crime influencers in Hong Kong

‘Sharks are my film stars’: how the Jacques Cousteau of the North Sea finally unlocked its beauty

Woman Unknown review – postwar paranoia with some deliciously dastardly Du Maurier touches

Cult of male genius holding female film-makers back, says Woman Unknown director

Possible Love review – a tale of two couples is finely judged study of exploitation and friendship

Wim Wenders clarifies that he does not believe film-makers should stay out of politics

French thriller Jupiter brings nuclear anxiety to red carpets of Venice

Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger review – mammoth tour movie brings the joy and poignancy of reunion

Robert Pattinson says he had ‘twice as much time’ after birth of first child

‘I don’t like the term neurodivergence – it sounds like political correctness’: Werner Herzog on fans, fanaticism and baby foxes

A Long Winter review – hope, desire and subversion in Andrew Haigh’s beautiful winter western

Tender Loving Care review – Mike Leigh’s tender and elusive study of love and mortality

Act 3 review – queer art history and life reflections from masters of metatextuality

The Basics of Philosophy review – Paul Schrader back to his cool, cruel best

15/18 A Place to Heal review – heartfelt docu-realist study of a French teen psychiatric facility

‘Like a tired boxer, battered by applause’: as Andrew Scott’s biopic premieres, Richard Eyre remembers Ian Charleson’s superb, near-death Hamlet

Latcho Drom director Tony Gatlif dies aged 77

Leicestershire v Somerset, Nottinghamshire v Hampshire, and more: county cricket, day two – live

England v Pakistan, third men’s cricket Test, day one – live

UK ‘showing leadership’ with West Bank sanctions, says Burnham as he faces Badenoch at PMQs – politics live

‘Their boat was sinking’: RNLI vows to keep rescuing asylum seekers despite attacks

How progressives are harnessing anger and frustration to steal young voters from Republicans

EU unveils ‘buy European’ public procurement rules to counter China