Tom Cruise's Weirdest Movie Yet May Have Just Confirmed A Wild Fan Theory The satire may be hiding a huge secret in plain sight. Inverse · Sep 9
The Oscars is shaping up for a showdown Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes doc, "You Can See Everything," shakes up awards season Salon · Sep 9
The Fire Within You review – overheated family Christmas boils up too many stereotypes Edoardo De Angelis’s claustrophobic drama brings a raging mother up from Naples for the holidays, with a capon. What could possibly not go wrong? The Guardian - UK · Sep 9
Union Town review – passionate exposé of US delivery workers’ employment conditions Barbara Kopple returns with her third film investigating US workers’ rights – this time, undocumented ‘deliveristas’ and the attempts to unionise Amazon staff The Guardian - UK · Sep 9
DAU review – Ilya Krzhanovsky’s crazed Soviet inferno reaches its central character The director’s bleak epic project about the scientist Lev Landau finally focuses on the genius maudit who inspired the series The Guardian - UK · Sep 9
Jane Eyre: A Musical review – more Disney romance than Victorian gothic This production has a talented cast and looks the part, but the characterisation is thin and the songs are often cloying The Guardian - UK · Sep 9
East Is East review – the classic cross-cultural comedy is as sharp as ever Thirty years on, Ayub Khan Din’s play about dual-heritage life in the 70s is revived for a tour with an exceptional cast The Guardian - UK · Sep 9
The Uprising review – the peasants are revolting in muddled historical epic Andrew Garfield’s charisma can’t save Paul Greengrass’s grim and depressingly generic period piece The Guardian - US · Sep 9
Stephen Graham ‘signs on’ for Heat 2 as unexpected casting choice rumoured British actor is rumoured to be playing a younger version of Robert De Niro’s character from the 1995 crime classic The Independent UK · Sep 9
15 Years Later, The Most Important Thriller Of 2020 Is Still Disturbingly Relevant 'Contagion's plague may be over, but we have countless Jude Laws now. Inverse · Sep 9
Is there any way back for Gal Gadot? COMMENT: With her new thriller ‘The Runner’, the erstwhile Wonder Woman star has drawn dismal reviews and online mockery – and not for the first time. Louis Chilton asks how Gadot managed to go from blockbuster sensation to laughing stock in less than a decade The Independent UK · Sep 9
Trump's fascist Space Force dress-up The “Starship Troopers”-inspired designs take cinematic nods to Nazis and make them real Salon · Sep 9
Blue Film review – polarising sex worker drama is well-acted and deeply disturbing A camboy meets up with a convicted paedophile who turns out to be his old English teacher in Elliot Tuttle’s uncomfortable drama The Guardian - UK · Sep 9
Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem film receives staggering 15-minute ovation at Venice Film Festival The real-life couple play a married pair in director Florian Zeller’s psychological thriller ‘Bunker’ The Independent UK · Sep 9
The Guardian - UK · Sep 9 Yuja review – portrait of star pianist who is intellectually curious and deeply musically attuned Wang is rattled to find her appearance gets far more attention than her playing in this reflective documentary from Lorna Tucker
The Guardian - UK · Sep 8 Company review – Casey Affleck entertains us with creepy campfire tales Affleck’s third film as a director is a diverting gothic anthology about mysterious strangers, murder and – pointedly – wronged men
International Business Times UK · Sep 8 James Bond 26 Writer Steven Knight's Comments Add Fuel to Jack Lowden Casting Rumours Steven Knight's comments on the next James Bond actor have intensified speculation around Jack Lowden, following Gary Oldman's claim that a decision has been made but not yet announced.
Inverse · Sep 8 Star Wars' 2027 Theatrical Releases Just Got A Major Upgrade 'Star Wars' returns to theaters for its 50th anniversary — this time in IMAX 70mm.
The Guardian - UK · Sep 8 Bunker review – Cruz and Bardem just can’t dig Florian Zeller’s shallow thriller out of a hole An architect (Javier Bardem) alienates his book editor wife (Penélope Cruz) when he agrees to build a luxurious bunker for a tech billionaire
The Guardian - US · Sep 8 Practical Magic 2 review – Bullock and Kidman return for odd sequel that still casts a spell A nostalgia-bait return to the witchy 90s comedy is as strange and messy as the first but there are warm seasonal pleasures to be had
Evening Standard · Sep 8 Steven Knight on new James Bond script: ‘I’m doing my duty for King and country’ The 67-year-old, known for creating the hit crime drama Peaky Blinders, was tasked with penning the new 007 script.
The Guardian - UK · Sep 8 Just an Illusion review – Louis Garrel and Camille Cottin sizzle as an 80s couple in crisis The directing duo behind uplifting mega-hit Intouchables return for this heartwarming coming-of-age drama, but it is the parents in the story who pull focus
The Guardian - US · Sep 8 Runner review – Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson thriller is serviceable B-movie camp Impressive stunts and tongue-in-cheek flourishes elevate Scott Waugh’s silly Aussie action flick
The Guardian - UK · Sep 8 Don’t Forget Me review – Eddie Cochran bio-doc boasts top-notch roster of talking heads Director Kirsty Bell alternates archival footage with tacky dramatised filler, but it’s the breadth of appreciation, from Keith Richards to Kiefer Sutherland that impresses
The Independent UK · Sep 8 New Bond writer says it was ‘a little easier to write’ film once he found out who’d been cast Steven Knight is writing the next 007 film, with actors Jack Lowden, Jacob Elordi and Callum Turner among those in contention for the role