What would you do if your child could listen in to your private conversations? Frédéric Hambalek’s dark but hilarious film about a teen with telepathic powers feels designed to make parents wince.
Romanian director Radu Jude's spiky social satire about a bailiff who faces a crisis of conscience when one of her evictees dies by suicide may be his most radical and despairing film yet.
Kneecap, Rich Peppiatt’s comedy-drama about the rise of the titular Belfast hip-hop trio, won outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer. The film, which had previously won seven ...
A Turkish literary professor unravels when his mother dies in mysterious circumstances in Iranian director Alireza Khatami’s noirish nightmare.
When Renée Zellweger first appeared on UK screens as Bridget Jones, critic Leslie Felperin was impressed by her fine comic timing in a film that ‘slips down as easily as Chardonnay’.
Supernatural picnics, an underground boxing ring and a Christmas Party to decide the fate of England. What are you watching this weekend?
Debut director Rebecca Lenkiewicz has a clear affinity with the material, but the interiority of Levy’s novel about a fraught mother-daughter holiday (played here by Fiona Shaw and Emma Mackey), doesn ...
Explosions, lens flares and VFX galore... On his 60th birthday, explore Michael Bay's action-packed filmography to venture into an identifiable stylistic Bayhem.
The BFI Flare 2025 Programming team announce the line-up of one of the world’s most significant queer film events in the LGBTQIA+ calendar.
One hundred years after The New Yorker published its first issue, we delve into the rich history of movies that have been inspired by its writing – from Meet Me in St. Louis to Adaptation.
The MCU’s latest outing, starring Harrison Ford as the hulk and Anthony Mackie as Captain America, is built from the foundations of some of the least-liked Marvel film and TV-projects.
Do short story adaptations make better films than novel adaptations? Ahead of the release of a new film of Stephen King’s The Monkey, we look at 10 of the best.