‘They couldn’t stop themselves’: what do we really know about serial killers?
FBI pioneer Ann Burgess developed groundbreaking ways to examine and investigate those with a compulsion to kill, the focus of a fascinating new docuseries
June 2024
The Watched (AKA The Watchers) review – Ishana Shyamalan’s debut shares her father’s talents and flaws
The Watchers (AKA The Watched) review – M Night Shyamalan’s daughter tells us a silly old story
April 2024
‘This coast is saturated’: Italian village braces for post-Ripley crowds
Netflix hit series based on Patricia Highsmith novel brings prospect of surge in visitors to Atrani area of Amalfi coast
September 2023
The Equalizer 3 review – one in the eye for the mob
The mafia are no match for a ruthlessly efficient Denzel Washington in the latest instalment of the visceral thriller
August 2023
The Equalizer 3 review – Denzel threequalizes in forgettable, gory thriller
The Oscar-winner returns for more carnage in a rote, violent sequel, this time saving an idyllic Italian seaside town from baddies
April 2021
Effie Gray review – Emma Thompson’s entertaining take on a doomed Victorian marriage
Dakota Fanning performs with gusto in this slightly hammy account of John Ruskin and Effie Gray’s marital disaster
March 2019
Steve Rose on film
Dying of the light: why Hollywood needs to get over its obsession with terminally ill teens
Five Feet Apart is the latest film about doomed young heartthrobs – a trope rife in popular culture since Romeo and Juliet
December 2018
2019 in pop culture: from Adele’s 30 to ‘zapping’ your TV
A guide to everything you’ll need to know about TV, film and music next year, including Tarantino’s Charles Manson obsession and what’s next for Richard Madden’s bum
September 2018
Steve Rose on film
A star is born: has the beardy bloke music biopic had its day?
With the arrival of Lady Gaga’s star turn, Natalie Portman’s Vox Lux and Elisabeth Moss’ Her Smell, the murky world of female pop stardom finally gets immortalised on screen
January 2018
The Alienist review – a 19th-century psychological thriller that's short on thrills
Despite lush production values and a disturbing plotline, the television adaptation of a 1994 literary sensation fails to excite
October 2017
Brimstone review – queasily sensationalist
This strikingly photographed story of a vengeful preacher and his victims in America’s old west revels too much in its savagery towards women
September 2017
Brimstone review – Guy Pearce outrageously operatic in grisly and gripping western
Pearce reaches Nicolas Cage levels of menace as he torments Dakota Fanning’s fiercely defiant homesteader in Martin Koolhoven’s freaky thriller
November 2016
American Pastoral review – Ewan McGregor's misjudged Roth adaptation
The actor’s heavy-footed directorial debut, in which he also stars, is an odd, tortured drama of postwar domestic tragedy
October 2016
Weekend fashion special autumn/winter 2016
Dakota Fanning: ‘There was an expectation – to fail, to succeed’
As a child actor she worked with Sean Penn and Tom Cruise – and people kept asking when she’d go off the rails. Not going to happen, she says
September 2016
Brimstone review – Dakota Fanning in blood-and-thunder western that pulls no punches
Four-part epic about a mute woman stalked by a vengeful preacher is filled with hellfire and damnation, but suffers from somewhat ponderous pace
July 2016
Kirsten Dunst to direct The Bell Jar starring Dakota Fanning
The Melancholia actor is to make her directorial debut with a version of Sylvia Plath’s 1963 novel
February 2016
The Benefactor review – who'd be a millionaire?
Richard Gere gets creepy with Dakota Fanning in this uninspired drama about a philanthropist with a dark side
Sacha Baron Cohen’s crude – and very funny – latest, and Chiwitel Ejiofor in a slightly unneccessary remake
Grimsby | Secret In Their Eyes | King Jack | The Benefactor | The Forest | The Propaganda Game | Bafta Shorts 2016 | Exposed
The Benefactor review – bland thriller begins charitably but skimps on depth
Richard Gere does his best as a tortured philanthropist but this potboiler never fulfils its promise after an atmospheric start
