Film, the measure of all things

In a bombshell Piers Morgan interview, Fiona Harvey refutes “defamatory” stalking allegations and threatens legal action against both Netflix and Gadd: “They have billed it as a true story; so has he. And it’s not.”

There’s no denying the topicality of Alex Garland’s latest, but does the film have anything meaningful to say about its dystopia?

Critics might have fallen for Luca Guadagnino’s erotic tennis romp but it’s a vapid string of disappointing choices

Since the millennium, there is substantially less erotic content on our screens – with changing audience tastes and ‘intimacy coordinators’ to blame

A preview of Film Forum's upcoming retrospective on the pioneer of early Black cinema, whose influence can be seen in the careers of Tyler Perry and Spike Lee.

Fans were left in tears hearing the real star's voice narrate the special.

A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly.

Depending on how you reckon it, the 'American century' has already ended, is now drawing to its close, or has some life left in it yet. But whatever its boundaries, that ambiguous period has been culturally defined by one medium above all: film, or more broadly speaking, motion pictures.

Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.

While global commercial success eludes the region's filmmakers, critically there have been a number of notable releases

A harrowing World War Two drama, is The Zone of Interest based on a true story?

Classics and discoveries from around the world, thematically programmed with special features, on a streaming service brought to you by the Criterion Collection.

Scott Eyman delivers an estimable and empathetic biography.

The ultra-hip indie film house recently opened up a paid membership for fans of its films, its merch, and everyone else. Is it worth it?

As Killers of the Flower Moon heads to AppleTV+, author David Grann chats with Brian Formo about collaborating with Martin Scorsese and the Osage to help unearth hidden histories and continue the conversations spurred by the scrupulous film adaptation.

See the hidden movement in the natural world, thanks to ‘motion extraction’, a filmmaker’s innovative digital effect

Another year of sex-scene discourse, another year of slim pickings at the cinema. From furious jumping to consent conversations, Kate Hagen selects the best of 2023’s mainstream offerings.

Ella Kemp dives into our festive viewing habits to get to the bottom of the 100 most obsessively rewatched films at Christmas. Plus, a bonus answer on the status of Die Hard, once and for all (again).

CGiii...for LGBT films, filmmakers & festivals

As we wave goodbye to another year at the movies, we reflect on the films that have stayed with us – from the plastic fantastic to tense courtroom dramas.

As chosen by Mike Leigh, Benny Safdie, Ngozi Onwurah, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Laura Mulvey, Abel Ferrara, Radu Jude and more.

The master documentarian shares five films he considers to be the best of their kind.

A neurodivergent analysis of the Talking Heads' classic 1984 concert film, Stop Making Sense.

July’s blockbusters made box office records – but the industry’s crisis is only deepening.

We critics can't be too careful. Employers are eager to replace us with Celeb Info-Nuggets that will pimp to the mouth-breathers, who underline the words with their index fingers whilst they watch television. Any editor who thinks drugged insta-stars and the tragic Amy Winehouse are headline news ought to be editing the graffiti on playground walls. As the senior newspaper guy still hanging onto a job, I think the task of outlining enduring ethical ground rules falls upon me.

Indie films have grown to be more appealing to wider movie-going audiences over the last decade or so.