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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

The lineup presents 247 features, shorts, series and immersive works from 79 countries, with 103 directed by female and non-binary filmmakers.

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.

The Italian auteur Paolo Sorrentino swaps excess for restraint in this meditative story of an ageing Italian president’s last days in office.