Six critics pick the discovery films that bowled them over from the international selection at this year’s Biennale.

In her six films in the UK in the late 1920s and early 30s, Asian-American star Anna May Wong challenged the norms of representation in British cinema, forging her own unique brand of transnational ...

A chance to find out about the specialist skills and technology that go into conserving the national collection of film and television.

Werner Herzog’s Aguirre is a fevered descent into madness and myth, where colonial ambition meets cosmic futility. Blending hallucinatory Romanticism with Brechtian realism, his jungle epic becomes a ...

Sam Riley stars as a tennis coach at a Fuerteventura resort who gets wrapped up in an absorbing missing person mystery.

By drawing on the metatext of Dwayne Johnson’s wrestling background, director Benny Safdie has created a respectful account of MMA fighter Mark Kerr that plays like a fascinating essay on physique and ...

Bigelow’s story of US government officials facing an escalating nuclear threat is a masterclass in tension-building, with top-notch performances from an ensemble cast that includes Idris Elba and ...

Jarmusch’s surprise Golden Lion winner blends arch humour and awkwardness in a trio of short-form sibling stories with a bittersweet core.

Twenty years after Brokeback Mountain, we explore other films that tackle LGBTQIA+ themes in cowboy clothes – some more obviously than others.

Rob Reiner's mock-rock-doc impressed our critic upon release, both for its gentle ribbing of real-life rockers and the accuracy of its American cast’s British-isms.

A five-year-old girl in Taipei becomes convinced the devil is working through her left hand in Shi-Ching Tso’s debut feature, an electric family drama co-written and edited by Sean Baker.

Rob Reiner’s follow-up to This Is Spinal Tap (1984) has plenty of great gags, but without the sharp satire of the original, it feels too close to the hagiographic music docs it once mocked.