Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Pierce Brosnan, Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 9th, 2026

Superheroes, prequels, sequels and myth: There’s something to suit everyone’s in cinemas next year

Sleek costumes and seasoned comedy are wasted in this sunny but saccharine film from Brett Haley

Jacob Elordi portrays a younger version of Gere’s character in a fragmented narrative exploring memory, desire and self-mythology

Kaouther Ben Hania, director of The Voice of Hind Rajab, on the moral imperative to tell this tragic story from Gaza

Steve Coogan, Éanna Hardwicke, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 2nd, 2026

Nothing much happens, yet everything is revealed, in this portrait of Hujar, at the time a little-known photographer

There are no talking heads, no narration and no explanatory subtitles in Frederick Wiseman’s fantastic four-hour documentary

Timothée Chalamet, Seymour Hersh, Stellan Skarsgard and Renate Reinsve in a quartet of movies released in the week of December 26th, 2025

Jonathan Stiasny’s film offers overview of iconic singer’s career with emphasis on his final artistic statement, Blackstar

Without journalists of Hersh’s calibre, we would be none the wiser about incidents including the 1968 massacre of a Vietnamese village by US soldiers

The actress stars in Joachim Trier’s acclaimed Sentimental Value, which is an awards-season favourite

Julian Assange, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and Martin Scorsese feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of December 19th, 2025

A key revelation concerns the Swedish rape allegations in 2010

The film-maker returns to the swashbuckling, maximalist production values that made him, with features such as Léon: The Professional and The Fifth Element, an auteur superstar