I’ve always imagined John Wayne as the epitome of gun-toting American racism. And I didn’t expect this white-supremacy parable to change my mind …
September 2017
From Don't Look Now to The Child in Time: why do we crave stories of lost children?
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. As a new TV adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel starring Benedict Cumberbatch hits our screens, we explore our fears and fantasies around the ultimate horror
July 2015
Citizen Kane voted greatest-ever American film in BBC poll
An international panel of critics has put Orson Welles’s much-praised debut in first place in a list of great American cinema, with Hitchcock’s Vertigo as runner-up
November 2014
The Searchers: my most overrated film
The Searchers radically reinvented every wild west trope, the critics said. Trouble is, no one told John Wayne or John Ford, writes Xan Brooks
October 2014
Week in geek
I Am Legend 2: time for a new species of sci-fi film?
Ben Child: Warner are rebooting their 2007 post-apocalyptic vampire thriller without Will Smith’s Robert Neville. Will there be space for the source novel’s radical comment on interspecies understanding?
October 2010
The 25 best action and war films of all time
The Searchers: No 16 best action and war film of all time
John Ford, 1956
July 2009
The worst best films ever made
La Dolce Vita, The Searchers, Schindler's List … some movies are so universally acclaimed, you just can't slag them off. Or can you? By Tim Lott
November 2007
TV pick of the week
Film picks
Paul Howlett on Mr & Mrs Smith | The Searchers | Mischief Night
January 2006
Philip French's DVD club
The Searchers
Philip French: ... a movie of complexity and contrasts
August 2001
Pick of the day
The Searchers | Gaslight | Sleepy Hollow | The Astronaut's Wife | The Tingler | Possession
July 2001
Pick of the day
Satellite, cable & digital: The Searchers | East Is East | The Fly | Snake Eyes | Das Boot: The Director's Cut
July 2000
Videos
Venus Beauty | A Walk on the Moon | Le Beau Serge | The Searchers
