Zoë Saldaña

The 50 best films of 2024: No 50 to No 31

The 10 highest-grossing titles were all sequels – but none is in our 50-best list in a year audiences turned out in numbers for ‘cultural cinema’

Wed Dec 04 2024 - 05:30

Emilia Pérez review: Bold, brassy, groundbreaking entertainment

Chutzpah is in plentiful supply in Jaques Audiard’s extraordinary telenovela-shaded narco-trans musical starring Zoë Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascón

Wed Oct 23 2024 - 05:00

Karla Sofía Gascón, star of the Oscar-tipped Emilia Pérez: ‘I put my entire life and soul into creating this character’

If the Spanish star gets an Academy Award nomination for her role in Jacques Audiard’s film, she’ll be the first openly trans performer to do so

Sat Oct 19 2024 - 05:15

Cannes 2024: Stars get shady on the carpet as the Nicolas Cage renaissance rages on with Irish director Lorcan Finnegan

Reviewer Tara Brady has her pick for the Palme d’Or and Seán Baker miraculously resurrects the screwball comedy

Thu May 23 2024 - 11:02

Oscars 2023: My predictions for next year’s best-picture nominees

Donald Clarke forecasts how the category will shape up at the next Academy Awards

Tue Mar 29 2022 - 13:30

The Adam Project: Effective retro entertainment that comes back from the future

Film review: Ryan Reynolds time-travel adventure gives all the good lines to the boys

Fri Mar 11 2022 - 05:00

Avengers: Endgame now probably won’t become the highest grossing film of all time

As of last weekend, Endgame is just $50 million short of Avatar. Why won’t it catch it?

Thu Jun 13 2019 - 00:21

‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ cast sign letter in support of fired director

James Gunn was sacked after offensive jokes he wrote on Twitter were resurfaced

Tue Jul 31 2018 - 09:47

My Little Pony: An innocent riot of colour – but why the short faces?

Feature-length update of now snub-nosed equine will appeal to kids and Bronies alike

Wed Oct 18 2017 - 15:13

Guardians of the Galaxy 2: ‘Expensive. Vulgar. Desperate’

Film review: The sequel has more quips, more kitsch, more spectacle, less plot

Mon Apr 24 2017 - 16:06

Anthea McTeirnan: I do take thy surname . . . Hang on a second, no I bloody don’t

Broadside: Why, in 2015, are so many women still dropping their own surnames when they get married?

Mon Nov 30 2015 - 07:00

‘Gorgeous and complicated’: the real Nina Simone

A Liz Garbus documentary shows us Simone’s life as it was, including her manic depression, politicisation and demons

Tue Jun 30 2015 - 01:00

The Book Of Life review

Viva la muerte, kids

Fri Oct 24 2014 - 03:30

Guardians of the Galaxy review: Dumb but hard to resist

You'd need to go back to the Old Testament to find a plot this stuffed with such fantastic nonsense

Thu Jul 31 2014 - 23:49

Out of the Furnace

Fri Jan 31 2014 - 13:33

Star Trek Into Darkness

Fri May 10 2013 - 01:00