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 ...

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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 ...

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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.

Sparring spouses Barbara and Oliver (played by Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas) fight through bitter divorce proceedings in this feel-bad comedy directed by Danny DeVito, which sticks to its ...

In a new edition of the series celebrating the work of the greatest auteur directors in history, we delve into our archives to revisit the radical cinema of Chantal Akerman, whose film Jeanne Dielman, ...

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