About Dry Grasses: You won’t want Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s epic film to end
This portrait of an art teacher whose aesthetic sensibilities are at odds with his thrillingly awful personality feels like a great lost work of Russian literature
I Saw the TV Glow: Jane Schoenbrun’s haunting cult sensation will leave you reeling
The trans community has embraced the film as an analogy for transition
Artist and shepherd Orla Barry: ‘Breeding animals is like making an artwork. You’re putting certain animals together’
Orla Barry took up farming as a more financially secure sideline to her art. As the new film Notes from Sheepland shows, it has proved equally precarious
Four new films to see this week
Sleeper geezer pleaser Thelma, plus bombastic big-boom Twisters, Istanbul-set drama Crossing, and heightened Netflix documentary Skywalkers
Crossing: Sublime adventure as a haughty aunt searches for her estranged trans niece
With tremendous aplomb, Mzia Arabuli plays Lia, the second essential Georgian screen heroine of 2024
Thelma: 94-year-old June Squibb has a ball with her first action heroine. She’s an early Oscar favourite
Crowdpleaser about nonagenarian who sets out to recover money after being scammed is never patronising
‘Age is being put in its place’: Actor June Squibb on becoming an action hero at 94
The star of Thelma, about a scammed woman who embarks on a revenge mission, on an ageing world, landing her first lead role and working with Shaft
Four new films to see this week
Eerie serial killer thriller Longlegs, plus Auschwitz documentary The Commandant’s Shadow, spooky Korean drama Sleep, and low star wattage in romcom Fly Me to the Moon
Fly Me to the Moon review: Lunar romcom starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum fails to achieve lift-off
Underpowered screwball take on Apollo moon landing was intended for streaming – and it shows
The Commandant’s Shadow review: The fascinating real-life story behind The Zone of Interest
There is no sense of catharsis in documentary featuring son of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss
Four new films to see this week
Gripping Irish drama The Sparrow, plus 1980s retread Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, 1980s-set slasher MaXXXine, and strange Japanese anime Blue Lock the Movie: Episode Nagi
Ti West on MaXXXine: ‘Horror was one step above porn for a very long time’
The third part of the American film-maker’s X trilogy catches up with Mia Goth’s protagonist in 1980s New York
MaXXXine review: third instalment in stylish slasher trilogy with Mia Goth is lacking in sleaze
The third instalment in the slasher trilogy is stylish, but lacking in substance and sleaze
The Sparrow review: An exquisitely crafted, expertly performed Irish murder ballad
Newcomer Ollie West impresses in Michael Kinirons’s debut feature
Paul B Preciado has crossed continents and genders. With Orlando he redefines documentary film
In his hybrid feature, the director invites nonbinary and trans people to audition for and play Virginia Woolf’s protagonist, with astonishingly rich results