Books & arts
5 November 2025
The Travellers and Kangaroo reviewed
Books & arts
22 April 2024
Loosely “based on” true stories, two new films feature compelling performances
Books & arts
15 January 2024
What One Life may achieve
Books & arts
15 September 2023
Past Lives convincingly explores how the past lives on in the present
Books & arts
2 August 2023
Driving Madeleine reviewed
Books & arts
8 October 2021
Lockdown has been a chance to compare on-screen treatments of the former British PM, and a documentary about his friendship with director Alexander Korda
Books & arts
7 July 2021
Molly Reynolds has documented a remarkable half-century career
Books & arts
3 June 2021
Three films tackle dementia is very different ways
Books & arts
11 April 2021
Cinema | Gary Oldman brings screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz to vivid life
Books & arts
10 March 2021
Cinema | Sam Neill stands out among a strong cast in Roger Michell’s Blackbird
Books & arts
11 February 2021
Books | A lifetimes’s flirting with danger lay behind the fictions of Graham Greene
Books & arts
15 December 2020
Cinema | Like all the best cinematic remakes, Rams stands on its own feet
Books & arts
26 November 2020
Books | Film critic David Thomson offers an idiosyncratic take on some of cinema’s greatest directors
Books & arts
10 July 2020
An unlikely coupling produces a vivid two hours of cinematic storytelling
Books & arts
29 May 2020
Books | The big screen offers a unique perspective on the past
Books & arts
1 April 2020
Cinema | Dealt with harshly by many critics, this remake has its strengths
Books & arts
6 March 2020
Cinema | Autumn de Wilde takes just enough liberties with Jane Austen’s classic
Books & arts
14 February 2020
Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys brilliantly capture real-life characters in this engrossing film
Books & arts
11 November 2019
Cinema | The King confirms David Michôd as a major director
Books & arts
14 October 2019
Cinema | Two very different films about family life
Books & arts
13 September 2019
Cinema | Rachel Ward makes the most of a stellar cast
Books & arts
1 August 2019
Books | American filmmakers viewed England through the lens of contemporary history
Books & arts
20 June 2019
Cinema | To mine Shakespeare’s life and work successfully, filmmakers need to find something new
Books & arts
5 April 2019
Cinema | Bill Nighy delivers a characteristically ambiguous performance in Sometimes Always Never
Books & arts
12 March 2019
Cinema | Stan & Ollie looks at what came after the comedy
Books & arts
6 February 2019
Cinema | Two remarkable women receive two great portrayals in Mary Queen of Scots
Books & arts
3 January 2019
Cinema | Somewhere between her time and ours, Queen Anne takes to the screen in The Favourite
Books & arts
6 December 2018
Cinema | The Children Act succeeds because of its ideas as much as its narrative
Books & arts
16 July 2018
Cinema | Translating short works to the screen has its special challenges
Books & arts
30 May 2018
Extract | Australian film-makers do best when they don’t try to beat Hollywood at its own game