Mark Kermode on… Kathryn Bigelow, a stylish ruffler of feathers
From vampire noir to Bin Laden, Point Break to Detroit, the first woman to win an Oscar for best director has never pulled her punches
March 2023
Iraq war: 20 years on
From The Hurt Locker to American Sniper: how Hollywood tried to tackle the Iraq war
Two decades on from the beginning of the war, a handful of films have tried various ways to show the conflict with audiences mostly choosing to stay away
December 2022
Ranked
The best New Year’s Eve scenes – ranked
We trawl acres of celluloid for the best New Year’s Eves, from romcoms and musicals to gangster flicks and comedies, from parties-for-two to hellishly elaborate dance sequences
July 2022
If you watch only one film … the greatest movies by the greatest directors
Some directors come with such huge back catalogues that it can be hard to know where to start. Enter our film critics, who suggest the best routes in to the works of some of our most prolific film-makers
May 2020
Women Make Film review – an epic trip through cinema's undiscovered world
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema review – paean to neglected talent
February 2020
What do female film-makers have to say about male stories?
The directors celebrated in a new season at the Barbican – focusing on films about men, made by women – on turning the traditional gaze on its head
January 2020
How long can this nonsense of the Oscars failing to nominate female directors go on?
Ellen E Jones
This year’s Academy Awards show that diversity drives will only get us so far. Filmgoers and the industry must question what makes a film award-worthy
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
The 100 best films of the 21st century
Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000
August 2018
Bigelow? Tarantino? Nolan? You share your picks for a Bond director
Our writer picked five possible Bond 25 directors after Danny Boyle left the project and you responded with a long list of alternative picks
March 2018
My favourite film decade
From Hidden to No Country for Old Men – why the 2000s is my favourite film decade
Names in the news
Timely honour goes to great pioneer for women in film
Rebecca Nicholson
January 2018
Who is the best Oscar-winning director of all time?
Capra? Coppola? Bigelow? Our chief film critic crowns one of five nominees the Oscar of Oscars champion – and reveals who you picked as your winner
And the winner isn't: the Oscar-aiming films that stumbled this year
While The Shape of Water, Dunkirk and Three Billboards might have impressed voters, other starry prospects haven’t been so lucky
'Invisible no longer': women in film on the female directors the Oscars must celebrate
It’s the alternative Oscars…
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
DVD and download reviews: World of Tomorrow Episode Two; Good Time; Detroit; Una
December 2017
Shortcuts
The Golden Globes have ignored female directors. In the year of #MeToo, this won’t wash
Film blog
The Braddies 2017: Peter Bradshaw nominates his films of the year
August 2017
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Detroit review – scenes from a riot revisited
Kathryn Bigelow directs John Boyega in a stunningly shot story of disturbing police brutality and civil unrest in 1960s Detroit
