‘Babygirl’ and a new ‘Emmanuelle’ portray female desire but struggle to avoid stock fantasy
Moore’s win is seen as a sign that Hollywood no longer pigeonholes female stars. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves
The anglophile American film director discusses his ultra-gothic, jumpscare-filled reworking of the ultimate vampire movie
Nicole Kidman stars in erotic thriller ‘Babygirl’; ‘Maria’ recalls the final act of Maria Callas; Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin mix comedy with Holocaust history in ‘A Real Pain’; ‘The Girl with the Needle’ is a grim Danish true-crime drama; documentary ‘Architecton’ meditates on the story of stone; ‘Nosferatu’ revisits the 1922 vampire horror classic — reviews by Danny Leigh and Jonathan Romney
The many misfortunes of a young Copenhagen woman are starkly painted in Magnus von Horn’s true-crime drama
Writer/director Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin star as American cousins touring Poland uncomfortably
Pablo Larraín’s focus on the great soprano’s fading final act strands her in a Parisian ‘Sunset Boulevard’
Victor Kossakovsky directs this strikingly filmed meditation on the history and significance of stone
Corporate hierarchies are upended and climaxes withheld in an erotic thriller of ideas as well as flesh
Lack of blockbusters, pandemic aftereffects and hard economic times blamed for 2024 slump
The genre is thriving and, with bumper ratings for shows such as ‘Yellowstone’, is proving well attuned to Trumpian times
Asif Kapadia splices real life and sci-fi in a dire warning of climate crisis, authoritarianism and rampant technology
Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield star as a couple who meet, have a child and suffer tragedy — but not in that order
RaMell Ross’s boldly radical approach plunges the viewer headlong into the life of a brutalised Black teenager
Robert Eggers’ update of the 1922 vampire classic stars Bill Skarsgård, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe
The great soprano was rarely captured on film, but a biopic starring Angelina Jolie and a BBC documentary revisit her story
From Nicole Kidman’s erotic thriller to a Formula 1 epic and two takes on Frankenstein
The FT’s critics pick the cream of the crop, from film and TV to art exhibitions, theatre, dance, games, pop and classical music
An exploration of the history and legacy of this manipulative genre manages to navigate the silly and the serious
Nicholas Hoult is suitably icy as a truth-based neo-Nazi leader but Jude Law is miscast as the broken FBI man pursuing him
Michael Gracey’s film about the British pop star is one of unlikely excellence — and animal magic
Newcomer Usha Seamkhum is superbly flinty as a sick woman circled by relatives with money on their mind
Feathers McGraw is back on the rampage in a gently pointed parable about the dangers of our tech-obsessed times
Documentary traces how a working-class boy from south London turned himself into a global icon of British charm
Action films from country’s south have won audience favour while Bollywood has endured string of flops
