Best films of 2023 in the UK: No 9 – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Laura Poitras’s powerful documentary follows artist Nan Goldin on a successful crusade to publicise America’s opioids crisis
March 2023
Aliens, activists and art: the five best films added to US streaming this week
Highlights include Jordan Peele’s thriller Nope, the prescient abortion drama Call Jane and Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
January 2023
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed review – Nan Goldin’s gripping takedown of the Sackler pharma family
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed review – Nan Goldin takes on big pharma
December 2022
Artist Nan Goldin on addiction and taking on the Sackler dynasty: ‘I wanted to tell my truth’
Her battle against the billionaires who fuelled the opioid epidemic upended the art establishment. As a film about her life is released, she talks about family tragedy and her journey to activism
September 2022
Laura Poitras’ opioids-crisis documentary wins Golden Lion at Venice film festival
Venice film festival 2022 week two roundup – discomfort and joy
January 2019
Hale County This Morning, This Evening review – visionary doc about lives in Alabama
Executive produced by Laura Poitras, this documentary RaMell Ross is a revelatory study of African American lives
June 2018
Manifesta 12 review – plant sex, puppets and a dial-a-spy booth
The migratory European art biennale takes over churches, palazzos and gardens with some of its most provocative political statements yet
August 2017
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Lady Macbeth; Their Finest; Rules Don’t Apply; Risk and more – reviews
William Oldroyd’s costume drama has a truly killer line in corsets, while Lone Scherfig offers a very different take on Dunkirk
July 2017
On my radar
On my radar: Nicola Barker’s cultural highlights
The novelist on a documentary rich in drama, street art in Shoreditch and her love of small scarves
June 2017
Five of the best… new films
Baby Driver, Chubby Funny and Kedi: this week’s best films in the UK
Edgar Wright’s entertaining car-chase movie roars into town, while Harry Michell stars in a comedy about two aspiring actors. Plus: a social history of Istanbul’s cats
Risk review – serviceable portrait of Julian Assange's vanity
Laura Poitras’s documentary about the WikiLeaks founder captures his creepy conceit and celebrity hauteur but leaves important questions unasked
Laura Poitras on her WikiLeaks film Risk: ‘I knew Julian Assange was going to be furious’
Summer arts preview 2017
Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years
Two sides to every story: Whitney, Tupac, Assange and the trouble with making biopics
November 2016
Charlie Lyne's home entertainment
Project X: Laura Poitras homes in on the dark side of the internet
The director’s new short film descends on a brutalist New York building to sum up the unsettlingly intangible nature of the web
May 2016
Laura Poitras on her new Julian Assange film: ‘Few people could stand the pressure he is under’
The Oscar-winning director of Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden, is back with a fly-on-the wall view of Julian Assange’s bid to escape extradition
First look review
Risk review – Laura Poitras skirts safely around Julian Assange in gripping documentary
Poitras follows Citizenfour with a profile of WikiLeaks founder Assange, which contains some electrifying moments despite its lack of objectivity
WikiLeaks rep: Julian Assange would find life no easier under President Clinton
Journalist and hacker Jacob Appelbaum says Clinton camp are out to get the WikiLeaks founder, while Laura Poitras, whose documentary about Assange has premiered at Cannes, denies rumours of a falling out