As the awards season reaches its climax, Adam Nayman looks deeper at the how and the why of acting excellence, as well as the who.

Fernando Eimbcke’s sharp eye for composition captures the restless present tense of childhood in a bittersweet film about a young boy in Mexico City trying to make sense of his mother’s illness.

Cillian Murphy reprises his role as the Brummie gangster, this time to face his estranged son Duke (Barry Keoghan), in a bloody big-screen version of the TV series that will go down well with fans.

The ESCAPES initiative is renewed for three years following a successful pilot which saw over 215,000 tickets claimed across 223 independent cinemas since 2024.

With five Best Picture nominees and 40 nominations in total for UK talent, creativity and collaboration across this year’s Academy Awards, the BFI and the British Consulate-General Los Angeles will ...

Marking ten years since the death of Andrzej Wajda, a BFI retrospective celebrates the towering Polish director whose films bore witness to his country's experience of war and tyranny. In this late ...

Lance Hammer’s film starring Juliette Binoche as the concerned daughter of a mother with advancing dementia presents an unsentimental yet highly empathetic meditation on the limits of love in the face ...

A 19th‑century contagion thriller for the 2020s: star Johnny Flynn and director Dara Van Dusen discuss the timely fears, inspirations and performances behind A Prayer for the Dying.

With The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal unleashes a genre‑bending, punk‑toned Frankenstein tale. We spoke to stars Peter Sarsgaard and Penélope Cruz about playing detective, favourite icons and ...

Mascha Schilinski’s fragmentary look into the lives of four generations of German women – each affected by violence and abuse in different ways – is as unsettling as it is breathtaking.

Jodie Foster, Ethan Hawke, Daniel Day-Lewis and the legendary Kim Novak on the art of acting. Plus actors including Isabelle Huppert, Wagner Moura, Sopé Dìsírù and Jennifer Lawrence nominate ...

A fraught tale of desire, accusation and moral compromise, Term of Trial is a striking Northern drama of the British New Wave era, offering one of Olivier’s most complex screen performances and a ...