Freakier Friday review: Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan’s old-school confection delights in every silly scene
Nisha Ganatra’s zinger-laden sequel smartly reunites the original stars as body-swapping mother and daughter
Four new films to see this week: The Naked Gun, Bring Her Back, Late Shift and Oslo Stories: Dreams (Sex Love)
A quartet of movies released in the week of August 1st, 2025
Bring Her Back review: Sally Hawkins weaponises her Paddington-mom screen persona in this gorily audacious horror
Latest iteration of A24’s ‘grief is the real horror’ subgenre leans heavily on body horror to drive emotion
Oslo Stories: Dreams (Sex Love) review – The first part of Dag Johan Haugerud’s trilogy is intimate, ambiguous and lingering
At its best, the Danish drama thrives in the fuzzy intersection of memory, identity and making stuff up
Late Shift star Leonie Benesch: ‘The biggest shock was realising how broken health systems are globally’
For her role in Petra Volpe’s feature the German actor shadowed nurses in Zurich but found even in wealthy Switzerland working conditions are tough
Four new films to see this week: The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Gazer, Dying/Sterben and The Bad Guys 2
A quartet of movies released in the week of July 25th, 2025
Gazer review: An impressive, lo-fi and disarmingly intense debut
Ariella Mastroianni is mesmerising as woman struggling with fractured family and fragmented psyche
Dying review: Dark family saga shows living, like dying, is a messy business
Sweeping intergenerational study of a fractured German family somehow finds a rhythm
Linus O’Brien on The Rocky Horror Film Show: ‘Rocky has tangibly saved lives. It created a real sense of community’
The son of Richard O’Brien has made a documentary about his father’s camp musical creation that became a monster cult hit
The Other Way Around review: A witty and cerebral romantic comedy
Jonás Trueba’s film initially evokes mature classics, before veering into playfully modernist territory
Harvest review: Trippy medieval parable where allegory overpowers the drama
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s first English-language film, adapted from the Jim Crace novel, is meticulously crafted yet oddly two-dimensional
Harvest star Harry Melling: ‘I was surrounded by titans like Fiona Shaw. I was starry-eyed as they told me stories about theatre work’
The Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari is the latest auteur to take a shine to the former Harry Potter actor, who has earned the respect of everyone from the Coen brothers to Christian Bale
Four new films to see this week: Pavements, Armand, Superman and Modigliani – Three Days on the Wing of Madness
Johnny Depp directs, and Al Pacino, David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan and Pavement appear in a quartet of movies released in the week of July 11th, 2025
Armand review: An emergency parent-teacher conference bubbles into an unnerving psychological crucible
An indelible, unsettling debut from Halfdan Ullmann Tondel, a grandson of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann
Pavements review: Brilliantly unclassifiable salute to the 1990s indie-rock legends Pavement
Alex Ross Perry’s film is framed around Pavement’s 2022 reunion tour, but it quickly spirals outwards into giddy metafiction