‘Sexy, sweaty and surprising – with a really big ending’: readers’ best films of 2024 so far
Best culture of 2024 so far
The best films of 2024 in the UK so far
May 2024
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Streaming: Monkey Man and the best revenge movies
Dev Patel’s seething directorial debut joins a thriving genre, from the bloody violence of Tarantino and John Wick to the comic rage of The First Wives Club
April 2024
Wendy Ide's film of the week
Monkey Man review – Dev Patel directs and stars in a bloody revenge thriller
Monkey Man review – Dev Patel goes wild in ultraviolent Mumbai revenge flick
March 2024
First look review
Monkey Man review – Dev Patel’s directorial debut is a gory descent into darkness
The actor takes the lead both in front of and behind the camera in an impressive and ambitious, if a little unwieldy, revenge thriller
September 2023
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar review – Wes Anderson’s star-stuffed Roald Dahl yarn
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar review – Wes Anderson’s short and sweet Roald Dahl tale
November 2022
The reader interview
Freida Pinto: ‘I was a sweaty, dancing Teletubby’
The actor answers your questions on her time as Laa-Laa, playing a British spy, getting a decent curry in LA, and her pole-dancing skills
August 2022
Dev Patel breaks up fight in South Australia in which man was stabbed
English actor and others witnessed attack in Adelaide CBD and remained with victim until arrival of emergency services
April 2022
Sorted
Ten Australian accents by foreign actors, from worst to best – sorted
Jude Law, Elisabeth Moss, Benedict Cumberbatch and Kate Winslet give their all. But who nails it – and who fails dismally?
February 2022
Romance, 14th-century style: why cinema has fallen for courtly love
From Cyrano to The Last Duel, the world of medieval chivalry is big on screen – and its preoccupation with appearances isn’t so far from our own
December 2021
Top US films 2021
The 50 best films of 2021 in the US, No 2: The Green Knight
Best films of 2021
The 50 best films of 2021 in the UK, No 2: The Green Knight
September 2021
Mark Kermode's film of the week
The Green Knight review – a rich and wild fantasy
The Green Knight review – Dev Patel rides high on sublimely beautiful quest
August 2021
Dev Patel: ‘The allure of the job is to change’
From Slumdog’s quick-witted hero to a medieval warrior in The Green Knight, Dev Patel has always sought to be an everyman. He talks to Alex Moshakis
July 2021
The Green Knight review – Dev Patel takes a magical and masterly quest
David Lowery’s complex, visually sumptuous and uncommercial tale of Arthurian legend revels in upending expectations
May 2021
Hear me out
Hear me out: why Chappie isn’t a bad movie
The latest in our series of writers sticking up for maligned films is a defence of Neill Blomkamp’s unusual robot adventure
February 2021
Golden Globes 2021: who will win and who should win the film awards?
Will Nomadland or Promising Young Woman scoop best drama? And will Viola Davis best Vanessa Kirby to best actress? Peter Bradshaw offers his predictions and preferences
