Outcome

Sharp-edged, fast-paced Hollywood comedy with Keanu Reeves

Father Mother Sister
Brother
Jim Jarmusch's all-star triptych astutely explores family dynamics

The Christophers

Clever art-world comedy-drama with Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen

You, Me & Tuscany

Over-familiar but cute romcom with Rege-Jean Page and Halle Bailey

Undertone

Podcast horror has a superb dread-inducing sound mix but isn't scary

Hamlet

Riz Ahmed is solid amid a mix of modern-day grit and archaic words

Awards Mania!
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SHADOWS SWEEPSTAKES
Who should have won
the prizes this year.
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OSCAR • BAFTA • GLOBES • DORIANS
LONDON CRITICS • ONLINE CRITICS

Jenna vs Gremlins
8.APR: Ortega reportedly lands lead role in Columbus' almost 40-years-later Gremlins sequel
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Mescudi will write, direct, star in and compose songs for Doe drama
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Smith, Shipp, Apa join ELEPHANT
Newton & Reid up for HOT YEAR
Pena, Messina, Morales to TUMOR
Serkis back as Alfred in BATMAN II
Miranda directs film of OCTET play
Fennell unlikely to remake INSTINCT
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Margot’s children
5.APR: Robbie will produce and star in Die Alive, Park's comedy about sudden motherhood
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Moura joins Stewart & Olsen in 1980s mystery Flesh of the Gods
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A'zion, Jones, Wong to FONDA
Davidson for TOMMY KARATE biopic
Bening & Samberg in 42.5 YEARS
France, Byrne, Garg go CLASHING
Bigelow may direct UNARMED bio
Zuckermans are writing SCREAM 8
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Benito’s comeback
1.APR: Bad Bunny, Domingo & Hanks will star in Heller's baseball drama The Comebacker
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Lipa joins starry ensemble cast in Gordon's reunion comedy Peaked
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Abdul-Mateen & Kirby in LIMINAL
Woodard & Wilson to HEAVEN
Light joins Merchant's romcom
Baldwin for Ross' COCKROACH
Kind, Draper, Raci are NOT DEAD
Black makes EXECUTIONER thriller
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17 Apr:
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
REBUILDING
DEPARTURES
ERUPCJA
ALMOST US
DIAMONDS
MIROIRS NO 3
EAGLES OF THE REPUBLIC
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24 Apr:
MICHAEL
MOTHER MARY
ROSE OF NEVADA
I SWEAR
BROKEN BIRD
PRIMAVERA
CHERRI
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1 May:
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2
HOKUM
WILD FOXES
KOLN 75
THE LAST ONE FOR THE ROAD
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8 May:
THE SHEEP DETECTIVES
MORTAL KOMBAT II
KOKUHO
ROMERIA
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Don’t fence me in
STAGE
Stephen Brower brings Palatable Gay Robot to Udderbelly Blvd London...

Shadows @ 40th BFI Flare
FESTIVAL: LGBTQIA+ festivities take over the Southbank 18-29 March...

A question of faith
STAGE
Where There Is No Time grapples fashion, at Seven Dials until 28 Mar...

Rich’s Best & Worst of 2025
THE 45th SHADOWS AWARDS
More lists than you can count...

A season of Italian films
FESTIVAL: Diving into a special programme from BFI and Cinecittà...

February TV Roundup
SCREEN: The Beauty, Heated Rivalry, Stranger Things 5, The Night Manager 2, Wonder Man, Industry 4, more...

Grounded in Indian soil
INTERVIEW: Chatting with filmmaker Rohan Parashuram Kanawade about his acclaimed romance Cactus Pears...

Remember my name
DANCE
Pina Bausch's Sweet Mambo premieres at Sadler's Wells, until 21st Feb...

More relevant than ever
INTERVIEW: Writer-director Bill Condon and actor Tonatiuh talk about Kiss of the Spider Woman...

Married to the job
STAGE
Gecko's sparky The Wedding explores social contracts, at Sadler's East...

Tale as old as time
STAGE
Charing Cross Theatre's adult panto Beauty and the Beast until 11 Jan...

Let it all hang out
STAGE
Cheeky song and dance in Boys in the Buff, Golden Goose until 10th Jan...

November TV Roundup
SCREEN Boots, Only Murders 5, Chad Powers, Peacemaker 2, MobLand, Morning Show 4, Alien: Earth, more...

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DANCE: Ebony Scrooge, Sadler's East
STAGE: The Great Christmas Feast
STAGE: The Fit Prince at King's Head
STAGE: RVT riotoius panto Growled
STAGE: Brick Lane Music Hall's Magic
DANCE: Ballet Black's Shadows
DANCE: NDT's Figures in Extinction
DANCE: Thikra at Sadler's Wells
STAGE: Get Down Tonight, Charing X
DANCE: Quadrophenia, Sadler's Wells
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ChaO

Visually inventive Japanese anime is a wildly fantastical slapstick romcom

Heads or Tails?

An offbeat and comically edgy Western that's set in 1890s Italy

Pizza Movie

Outrageously wacky drug trip comedy led by Gaten, Lulu and Sean

They Will Kill You

Enjoyably grisly action horror with Patricia Arquette and Zazie Beetz

D Is for Distance

Intimate, kaleidoscopic doc follows a family through a health crisis

Holy Days

Warm and silly New Zealand road movie with Judy, Miriam and Jacki

A Magnificent Life

Beautifully animated but brisk and talky biopic about Marcel Orphuls

Mr Burton

Toby Jones and Harry Lawtey are excellent in this formulaic biopic

Abode

Warmly involving five-part film from Ireland mixes comedy and drama

Past Life

Both over-serious and silly, this hypnotsis thriller is a guilty pleasure

Reminders of Him

Simplistic and sappy, this moving romantic drama at least looks great

How to Make a Killing

Black comedy with Glen Powell starts well but then turns strangely grim

Resurrection

Ambitious Chinese epic is dazzling, moving and somewnat out of reach

One Last Deal

Danny Dyer goes for broke in this one-man show about a sports agent

The Bride!

Bale & Buckley are full-on in Gyllenhaal's audacious, uneven romp

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HOPPERS
SCREAM 7
GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE
JIMMY AND STIGGS
WHISTLE
SCARE OUT
THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP
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The Stranger

Ozon's gorgeously shot and performed film of the Camus classic

The Drama

Pitch-black romantic comedy with Robert Pattinson and Zendaya

DJ Ahmet

Hugely likeable drama about sheep-herding brothers in North Macedonia

Night Stage

Wonderfully lurid thriller from Brazil is complex, sexy and very entertaining

Splitsville

Engagingly smart comedy about fidelity, led by Dakota Johnson

Orwell 2+2=5

Stunningly powerful Raoul Peck doc explores Orwell's prescient ideas

Underland

Artful, evocative doc explores our fascination with going underground

The Last Blossom

Moving, low-key crime thriller told using artful Japanese anime

Two Prosecutors

Stylised pitch-black political comedy set in a Kafkaesque Soviet Union

La Grazia

Another dazzling Roman odyssey from Paolo Sorrentino and Toni Servillo

Dead Man’s Wire

Gus Van Sant's true-life thriller with Dacre Montgomery & Bill Skarsgard

The Good Boy [aka: Heel]

Offbeat British drama with Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough

Arco

Engaging animated adventure from France about a young time-traveller

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LATE SHIFT
BROKEN ENGLISH
EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET
THE LOVE THAT REMAINS
SCARLET
SOUND OF FALLING
SIRAT
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE
THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE
PALESTINE COMEDY CLUB
ALL YOU NEED IS KILL
THE SECRET AGENT
KOKUHO
COLD STORAGE
WASTEMAN
IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU
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