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
May 2024
Party like it’s 1999: 10 movies that encapsulate one of the greatest years for cinema
It was the year when arthouse brains met Hollywood brawn. But what made the last 12 months of the 90s so special? These films tell the story
April 2024
Surreal claims, lawfare and abuse: toxic politics in Spain reflect the new Europe
Pedro Sánchez is not alone in EU in facing ‘harassment through the media and the courts’ aimed at forcing him out of politics
September 2023
Strange Way of Life review – Almodóvar’s stylish but slight cowboy love story
Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke do their best with meagre material in this underpowered short from the Spanish director
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
July 2023
Short story collection by Pedro Almodóvar to be published next year
An English translation of 12 stories, which the Spanish film director calls his ‘fragmentary autobiography’, will come out next September
May 2023
Cannes 2023 week one roundup – from Depp to Godard, the chaotic circus rolls on
Strange Way of Life review – Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke sizzle in Almodóvar’s queer cowboy yarn
April 2023
I’ve rented DVDs from Netflix for half my life – streaming is a poor substitute
Zach Schonfeld
The slow extinction of physical media is bad news for movie fans. We’re told that “everything’s streaming now”, but it’s simply not true, says journalist Zach Schonfeld
January 2023
Alcarràs director Carla Simón: ‘I have feelings for Spanish culture and Catalan culture’
Inspired by her own rural upbringing after her parents both died, the Barcelona‑born film‑maker’s latest movie won the top prize in Berlin for its vivid portrayal of Catalonia’s peach farmers
December 2022
Best films 2022
Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 3 – Parallel Mothers
Pedro Almodóvar teams up with Penélope Cruz again for his most political film yet, weaving Spanish history and modern motherhood in a cocktail of comedy, thriller and melodrama
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
June 2022
Best culture of 2022 so far
The best films of 2022 so far
Tilda Swinton aces Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s dreamy fable, director Clio Barnard’s forbidden affair and Catherine Clinch in The Quiet Girl rank in the pick of this year’s films
April 2022
Ranked
Penélope Cruz’s 20 best films – ranked!
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Streaming: the best films set on aeroplanes
March 2022
Pedro Almodóvar on Will Smith at the Oscars: ‘The devil, in fact, doesn’t exist’
The Guardian view on Jane Campion: the power of the director
January 2022
Parallel Mothers review – Penélope Cruz sets the tone in buoyant Almodóvar drama
The Spanish director’s light-footed tale of female bonding and family secrets zings with his trademark colour palette and Cruz’s radiant warmth
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Parallel Mothers review – Almodóvar delivers an emotional bundle of joy
Pedro Almodóvar’s poetic conviction and creative fluidity flow through this moving baby-swap drama about two single mothers and buried secrets from the Spanish civil war
The Guardian view on remembering the Spanish civil war: the work must go on
Editorial: Pedro Almodóvar’s new film and a planned national museum both speak to the need to settle accounts with the past
