‘We are artists’: Mexican wrestling’s exóticos are champions with new film
The flamboyantly camp wrestlers are in the spotlight with the release of Cassandro, starring Gael García Bernal as one of the sport’s trailblazers
Cassandro review – Gael García Bernal is phenomenal as flamboyantly camp Mexican wrestler
García Bernal goes all out as the ‘Liberace of Lucha Libre’ in Roger Ross Williams’s joyously entertaining true-life drama
Cassandro review – Gael García Bernal lights up the ring as lucha libre’s taboo-busting wrestler
The actor has his best role in years and radiates charisma and infectiously upbeat energy in this heartwarmer about a pioneering openly gay Mexican wrestler
May 2023
The Mother review – Jennifer Lopez goes kick-ass in abject kidnap thriller
Lopez plays an ex-special forces parent aiming to rescues her kid from the bad guys in this formulaic and muddled Netflix caper
August 2021
Old review – M Night Shyamalan’s beach thriller is all washed up
Gael Garcia Bernal and Vicky Krieps are all at sea in this holiday-from-hell drama
July 2021
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Old review – M Night Shyamalan’s fast-ageing beach horror is top notch hokum
With a cast worthy of Agatha Christie, this tale of a resort where time has been terrifyingly accelerated is brilliantly poised between serious and silly
June 2021
It Must Be Heaven review – Palestine's holy fool lives the dream
The latest satire-fable from Elia Suleiman is as droll as ever, but while there’s a kernel of seriousness here it too often lapses into elusive mannerism
June 2020
Death of man after face mask arrest shines light on Mexican police brutality
Video shows officers forcing man into a police truck as bystanders plead for his release
May 2020
Ema review – Pablo Larraín dances to a different tune
Gael García Bernal: 'The pandemic has taught me that I need something to say'
April 2020
Ema review – a sexual odyssey, with flame-throwers
In Pablo Larraín’s emotional drama, a woman embarks on a bizarre journey after regretfully returning an adopted child
September 2019
Ema review: Pablo Larrain proves a master rug-puller in domestic teaser
Gael Garcia Bernal and Mariana Di Girolamo blame each other for quitting on their adoptive son. Is either correct? And will we ever meet him?
March 2018
Coco wins best animated feature at Oscars 2018
The Pixar film, a critical hit and box-office juggernaut, was a shoo-in for best animated film at the 90th Academy Awards
February 2018
Museum review – Gael Garcia Bernal's student waster ballasts fun Mexican heist movie
Inspired by a real life robbery, this yarn about a pair of gormless students stealing priceless ancient artefacts is an entertaining and highly watchable thriller
January 2018
The Kindergarten Teacher review - brilliantly observed ethical pretzel about a poetically gifted kid
A precociously five-year-old is discovered by pre-school teacher Maggie Gyllenhaal in a wonderfully sensitive American remake of an Israeli original
July 2017
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Elle; Certain Women; Neruda; Frantz and more – reviews
Isabelle Huppert is superb as a complex rape victim in Paul Verhoeven’s fearless Elle, while Kelly Reichardt’s study of female identity is lifted to the heavens by Kristen Stewart
May 2017
Cannes 2017 day seven: Charlize Theron and Naomi Campbell on the red carpet – in pictures
Day seven at Cannes was dominated by a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the film festival, with hordes of film-world luminaries on hand to celebrate
April 2017
Neruda review – poetry and politics clash in Pablo Larraín's historical caper
Gael García Bernal plays a police officer sent on a sham pursuit of the dissident poet Pablo Neruda, in a jokey chase film set in President Videla’s Chile
March 2017
First trailer launched for new Pixar film Coco
Animated ‘love letter to Mexico’ follows a young boy as he travels to the mythical Land of the Dead after finding an enchanted guitar
February 2017
The best quotes from the 2017 Oscars
From Viola Davis’s lyrical paean to art, to the barbs Jimmy Kimmel aimed at Trump, here are the highlights from the acceptance speeches and award presentationsrs
