Actor Anamaria Vartolomei: ‘I’m 25 now. I started when I was 10. I’ve been working for 15 years. It sounds weird when I say it’
The star of Happening, Being Maria and Traffic appears next in Bong Joon Ho’s futuristic new film, Mickey 17
Vermiglio review: Captivating chronicle of the hardships and eccentricities of an ever-expanding family
Maura Delpero has based her deserving Venice prize-winner on her own family’s wartime experiences
The People’s Joker: The most innovative superhero film of the decade
Warner Bros and DC Films don’t like it but Vera Drew’s punk bildungsroman leaves rivals in the shade
Apartheid South Africa: ‘Ernest Cole’s photographs were the first that told the story from inside the beast’
Raoul Peck, director of Ernest Cole: Lost & Found, on his new film about the trailblazing photographer
Four new films to see this week
Multi-Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here. Plus bloody good Stephen King horror, doc on Man U’s Peter Schmeichel, and a weirdly misshapen Irish(ish) drama
Pamela Anderson: ‘I felt like life was really like death for me’
The former Baywatch star hasn’t always come out on top. But with her role in Gia Coppola’s gritty film The Last Showgirl, she is finally getting the respect she deserves
September Says review: A Greek weird wave star has set her new film in some kind of AI-generated Ireland. Why?
There’s something oddly misshapen about Ireland in Ariane Labed’s film, like one of those AI art fails in which everyone has the wrong number of arms
Schmeichel review: Eric Cantona, Alex Ferguson and Gary Neville line out. But where’s Roy Keane?
Owen Davies’s engaging documentary portrait on the retired Danish footballer lacks a Keane edge
‘Eunice had a unique inner strength. It’s like a volcano that never spills’: Walter Salles on the Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here
The film, based on the real story of the forced disappearance of a dissident in 1970s Brazil, is a box-office sensation in its native Brazil despite right-wing calls for a boycott
Four new films to see this week
Latest Bridget Jones is both properly funny and unexpectedly poignant. Plus: drama of rootless Palestinians in Greece, eccentric adults-only Aussie animation, and Fugazi crowd-sourced concert doc
Memoir of a Snail review: A lovely, heartfelt creation from an Oscar-winning animator
Adam Elliot has created a dark, antipodean fable of divided siblings
We Are Fugazi from Washington, DC review: Fan-sourced film captures legendary US punks in all their glory
Even plucked from the archives, these are the best gigs you’ll see in 2025
To a Land Unknown director Mahdi Fleifel: ‘Getting a film made is a miracle. Getting a Palestinian film made is more than that’
Refugee-themed thriller offers a timely insight into the complex consequences of statelessness
Four new films to see this week
Engrossing drama about Munich Olympics hostage crisis. Plus long but twist Iranian thriller, Barry Keoghan in ersatz Irish western, and acceptable female boxing biopic
The Fire Inside review: The Olympic champion Claressa ‘T-Rex’ Shields deserves an Oscar-worthy biopic. This isn’t quite that
This Barry Jenkins-scripted sports drama has enough quality to please genre and sports enthusiasts but feels like an undercard fixture