Parthenope review – Paolo Sorrentino contrives a facile, bikini-clad self-parody
The heroine is a victim of her own beauty in this exercise in languorous image-making that is too conceited to allow any emotional investment
September 2022
Amanda review – comic crises in the life of an entitled twentysomething
A wealthy young woman, friendless and lost after studying abroad, sets about recovering an old friendship she thinks she once had
January 2022
Down the rabbit hole
What links Scarlett Johansson to the football fan with the flare up his bum?
Take a trip down the rabbit hole, passing a porcupine punk rocker, Diego Maradona and a Booker winner
December 2021
How Maradona inspired Paolo Sorrentino’s film about Naples, Hand of God – and inadvertently saved his life
The Hand of God review – Paolo Sorrentino relives his teens in a film of two halves
Paolo Sorrentino: ‘Let’s say that almost everything is true’
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
The Hand of God review – Paolo Sorrentino tells his own Maradona story
November 2021
From Milked to Night Raiders: Ten films to see at the New Zealand film festival
Films from 51 countries, including new offerings from Jane Campion and Paolo Sorrentino, are on the programme
September 2021
Venice film festival 2021 roundup – a formidably good year on the Lido
The Hand of God review – Paolo Sorrentino exposes his childhood trauma
July 2021
Kristen Stewart’s Princess Diana biopic to screen at Venice film festival
Spencer, telling the story of Diana and Charles’s bitter divorce, will battle for the Golden Lion alongside the latest by Pedro Almodóvar
May 2021
Films shot on smartphones herald new age for cinema, say directors
London’s first international festival for movies made on mobiles will celebrate innovation, diversity and access
July 2020
The week in TV: Homemade; Welcome to Chechnya: The Gay Purge; The Sinner and more
'I had this image of my husband making love to a tree': directors on filming shorts for Netflix's Homemade
June 2020
Homemade review – Kristen Stewart leads Netflix's lockdown short films
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paolo Sorrentino and Natalia Beristáin contribute to a diverting but indulgent anthology about lockdown life
February 2020
Crooked preachers and sexy priests: has TV got a problem with Christianity?
Christians on TV were once limited to ethical debates and Songs of Praise. But from Fleabag to The Righteous Gemstones, portrayals are now less pious and more provocative
January 2020
Observer New Review Q&A
Paolo Sorrentino: ‘My characters’ struggles are the struggles I have’
The Great Beauty director on his TV series The New Pope, blowing up Michelangelo’s Pietà, and why he’s done with Italian PM biopics
December 2019
The most anticipated movies of 2020
The most exciting movies of 2020 – crime films and thrillers
The Sopranos gets a prequel, Jennifer Lawrence jumps back into action and Jim Broadbent stars as a real-life cabbie who stole a Goya in next year’s buzziest crime capers and thrillers
Top US films 2019
The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: the full list
Our pick of the top films released in the US this year brings a shocking class war, tearjerking breakups, war, glamour, horror and everything in between. Tell us your favourites too
Top UK films 2019
The 50 best films of 2019 in the UK: the full list
Our pick of the year’s top movies released in the UK reveals the end of an era, painful breakups, festive families, horrors both real and imagined, and heroes of many kinds
