Guadagnino, Almodóvar, Larraín: this year’s Venice film festival already looks exceptional
Peter Bradshaw
A lineup for the senses includes Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice sequel, Lady Gaga in Joker: Folie à Deux and Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas. How nutritious it will prove remains to be seen
April 2024
Week in geek
Can Joker: Folie à Deux avoid becoming like any other comic book movie?
Joker: Folie à Deux: trailer for Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga musical sequel released
March 2024
The seven best films to watch on TV this week
Napoleon to Damsel: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Joaquin Phoenix leads the charge in Ridley Scott’s lavish biopic, while Millie Bobby Brown is the noblewoman imprisoned in a dragon’s cave in a movie that’s guaranteed to be huge
January 2024
Singing, dancing, playing piano: six actors who had to train for their roles
2024 culture preview
From Megalopolis to Joker 2: the 2024 films Guardian writers are most excited about
December 2023
Notebook
We don’t go to the movies for a history lesson, but shouldn’t Napoleon at least be entertaining?
Rowan Moore
You don’t go to this Bonaparte biopic for a history lesson or authentic settings – but shouldn’t it at least be entertaining?
November 2023
Critics of Napoleon epic have fallen for emperor’s fibs, says film’s military expert
The seven best films to watch on TV this week
Beau Is Afraid to Belfast: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Like the rest of France, I couldn’t wait for Ridley Scott’s Napoleon. Then I actually saw it
Agnès Poirier
Wendy Ide's film of the week
Napoleon review – Ridley Scott’s sturdy epic only fully comes alive on the battlefield
Napoleon film is marred by a younger Joséphine
Emperor’s new clothes: why the French are ready to embrace Napoleon again
Directors are turning to streaming to fulfil their epic visions – and avoid ‘bum ache’
Napoleon review – Joaquin Phoenix makes a magnificent emperor in thrilling biopic
August 2023
Autumn arts preview 2023
Napoleon, Scorsese and Wonka at the pictures: the best films to see in autumn 2023
The season’s star turns include Ridley Scott’s portrait of the great French warrior, a true-crime western from an American great and Timothée Chalamet in a chocolatier origin story
May 2023
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Beau Is Afraid review – Ari Aster’s patience-testing shaggy dog story
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Beau Is Afraid review – Ari Aster sends Joaquin Phoenix on an odyssey to nowhere
April 2023
Beau is long: in praise of the expanded movie runtime
Ari Aster’s divisive psychodrama Beau Is Afraid is a minute shy of three hours, the latest in a string of extended cinema sits
June 2022
Lady Gaga to play Harley Quinn in Joker sequel
Margot Robbie played the character in the Suicide Squad movies, but Gaga’s version is expected to ‘exist in a different universe’
