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BFI Southbank's LGBT film festival Flare kicked off in fine style last night with The Pass, a sharp and richly emotional drama about a closeted Premier Leagu... Read more »

Nasty Baby is a meandering, off-kilter film that alternates between passages of amusement and aggravation for much of its running time, before it suddenly sn... Read more »

Sidney Pollack’s paranoid thriller Three Days of the Condor comes to Blu-ray from Masters of Cinema Three Days of the Condor might have been viewed as... Read more »

For over two decades, Todd Solondz has wryly explored the lives of middle-class suburbanites trapped by their own melancholy and anxieties. We speak to him a... Read more »

Scottish filmmaker David Mackenzie, director of Young Adam, Perfect Sense and Starred Up, talks genre, atmosphere and shooting under pressure ahead of the re... Read more »

After a bruising experience on his last film, Dying of the Light, which was taken off him on completion and re-cut, Paul Schrader is back with full artistic ... Read more »

The marriage of Richard and Mildred Loving in 1958 was a revolutionary act with far-reaching political consequences, but Richard and Mildred were not revolut... Read more »

A shy and insecure young woman starting life at an Oslo university, Thelma (Harboe) already has enough anxiety to deal with in her life before she falls in l... Read more »

It's hard to know how to approach a festival like the Berlinale. The natural inclination is to gravitate towards the highest-profile Competition titles, but ... Read more »

Mea Maxima Culpa (Alex Gibney) A sober but enraging companion piece to his Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, Alex Gibney’s Mea Maxima Culpa is anot... Read more »

Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg, 1973) The opening scene of Jerry Schatzberg’s Scarecrow is perfect. On a dusty, tumbleweed-strewn highway in No... Read more »

Mommy (Xavier Dolan) Xavier Dolan's fifth feature, Mommy, could be viewed as a companion piece to his debut I Killed My Mother, with a comparison betwe... Read more »

Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) “I hate characters,” a woman states in Goodbye to Language, and it’s clear she is speaking on behalf... Read more »

GIRLHOOD (CÉLINE SCIAMMA) The inaccurate English retitling of Céline Sciamma’s Bande de filles has led some to draw comparisons with Boy... Read more »

1. Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)Few films this year can match The Tree of Life's sense of soaring ambition, and fewer still can match the breathtaking artis... Read more »

1. The Raid (Gareth Evans) Vice-like expectation is nuanced only by punishing adrenalin in Gareth Evans’s Indonesian actioner The Raid. Rookie cop Ram... Read more »

American Gods Anticipation for this small screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel of the same name has been feverish. The Amazon Prime show bo... Read more »

Canons – like cannons – can be dangerous. They boil artists’ oeuvres down to easily digestible chunks, leaving the non-canonical titles out... Read more »

Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone) It's hard to imagine we'll see many more perfectly matched performances this year than the two delivered by Rebecca Spence and... Read more »

Carol The postwar boom of 1950s America has by now been roundly picked apart for its veneer of suburban utopia masking repression underneath, but Todd Hayne... Read more »

Once again our writers draw lines in the cinematic sand to choose 2015's essential films. Our top ten has a curious gender divide: the male protagonists (The... Read more »

The best films to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the latest film from Todd Solondz, 80s-set coming-of-... Read more »

1. Moonlight Dir. Barry Jenkins At a Q&A session following one of Moonlight’s public screenings at this year’s London Film Festival, dire... Read more »

Given recent votes, we half expected something racist and idiotic like Gerard Butler hokum Gods of Egypt to top this best films of the year poll. This drum t... Read more »

The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including behind the scenes of the latest Xavier Dolan film an... Read more »

The best films to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Brady Corbet's extraordinary directorial debut, Andrz... Read more »

1. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater) The standout line of 2013 comes in the extended third act of its standout film, Richard Linklater’s second unex... Read more »

1. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) Under the Skin is a film that shows you things you’ve never seen before. Jonathan Glazer’s extraordin... Read more »

John Wick Chapter 2 Dir. Chad Stahelski  John Wick 2 will never not be underrated, even by the people who thoroughly enjoyed it. Underneath an extra... Read more »

Beyond the Lights Dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood Why it's one of our overlooked movies of 2015: it went straight to DVD in the UK In a more sensible film cul... Read more »