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  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Review
    Six films to watch this week

    The new ‘Nosferatu’ revisits the 1922 vampire horror classic; ‘Nickel Boys’ (★★★★★) plunges us into the life of a brutalised Black teenager; Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield star in ‘We Live in Time’; Asif Kapadia’s ‘2073’ splices real life and sci-fi in a warning of climate crisis and authoritarianism; ‘The Order’ is a 1980s story of American white supremacists; Robbie Williams is rendered as a chimpanzee in ‘Better Man’ — reviews by Danny Leigh

  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Six films to watch this week
    2073 — sombre collage looks back to a present heading for catastrophe

    Asif Kapadia splices real life and sci-fi in a dire warning of climate crisis, authoritarianism and rampant technology

    A collage of images shows helmeted riot police, one of whom wields what looks like a tear-gas gun; a woman standing as a forest fire burns behind her; people wearing VR headsets; and Donald Trump pointing a finger straight ahead
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Six films to watch this week
    We Live in Time — British romcom plays like lightly scrambled Richard Curtis

    Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield star as a couple who meet, have a child and suffer tragedy — but not in that order

    A man stands in a garden holding a young girl, who carries a soft toy; behind him a woman reaches out to him. Both are smiling
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Six films to watch this week
    Nickel Boys — dazzling reform-school drama is already among best films of 2025

    RaMell Ross’s boldly radical approach plunges the viewer headlong into the life of a brutalised Black teenager

  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
    Six films to watch this week
    Nosferatu — inventive horror a little scared of its own shadow

    Robert Eggers’ update of the 1922 vampire classic stars Bill Skarsgård, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe

    A man in 19th-century clothes stands in what looks like a crypt; flames are leaping around him, he carries a metal cannister and laughs maniacally
  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
    Maria Callas
    Maria Callas on screen — and why the legend will never die

    The great soprano was rarely captured on film, but a biopic starring Angelina Jolie and a BBC documentary revisit her story

  • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
    2025’s most anticipated hot tickets
    Kinky games and gothic horror — films to look forward to in 2025

    From Nicole Kidman’s erotic thriller to a Formula 1 epic and two takes on Frankenstein

    Upcoming films include Babygirl, Hard Truths, The Brutalist, F1 and Mickey 17
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Life & Arts
    2025’s most anticipated hot tickets

    The FT’s critics pick the cream of the crop, from film and TV to art exhibitions, theatre, dance, games, pop and classical music

  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    The best books of the week
    Emily Nussbaum’s Cue the Sun! — reality TV bites

    An exploration of the history and legacy of this manipulative genre manages to navigate the silly and the serious

    A man with a red suitcase walks through the street
  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    Six films to watch this week
    The Order — dark tale of white supremacists in 1980s America

    Nicholas Hoult is suitably icy as a truth-based neo-Nazi leader but Jude Law is miscast as the broken FBI man pursuing him

  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    Six films to watch this week
    Better Man — Robbie Williams origin story is an audacious coming-of-ape

    Michael Gracey’s film about the British pop star is one of unlikely excellence — and animal magic

    A chimpanzee’s face with human eyes and a surprised expression looking directly at the camera
  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    Six films to watch this week
    How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies — hard-edged but warm-hearted Thai comedy

    Newcomer Usha Seamkhum is superbly flinty as a sick woman circled by relatives with money on their mind

  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    The best of Christmas TV and streaming this week
    Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl — busybody robot and villainous penguin wreak havoc

    Feathers McGraw is back on the rampage in a gently pointed parable about the dangers of our tech-obsessed times

    A claymation scene depicting Wallace smiling eagerly as he holds up a knitted suit, which is being knitted by Christmas elf sitting in his living room. Gromit, the dog, sits nearby holding knitting needles and looking at them
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    The best of Christmas TV and streaming this week
    From Roger Moore with Love — fittingly slick tribute to the suave Bond star

    Documentary traces how a working-class boy from south London turned himself into a global icon of British charm

    A close-up colour photo of a younger Roger Moore wearing a short-sleeved black shirt and looking suntanned
  • Sunday, 22 December, 2024
    Bollywood
    Indian cinema turns to high-octane movies to overcome box office ‘famine’

    Action films from country’s south have won audience favour while Bollywood has endured string of flops

    Indian actors Rajkummar Rao, Shraddha Kapoor and Varun Dhawan pose in a film promotional shot
  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
    Luchino Visconti — Italian cinema’s master of the grand and the gritty

    A BFI season ranges from the bracing neo-realism of ‘Ossessione’ to the opulent period drama of ‘The Leopard’

    A man in a patterned shirt stands with his arm around a beautiful young man in a ballgown, as if they are about to waltz. Another man, in white tie, stands watching
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    FT Magazine
    The wonderful, horrible, madcap world of the Christmas movie

    Our festive viewing habits reflect Yuletide’s carnivalesque nature, a time when eccentric choices are celebrated

    A still from the 1947 black-and-white film It’s A Wonderful Life. The lead actor James Stewart is in the centre, embracing his character’s wife and carrying his baby daughter and surrounded by friends and family at Christmas
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    What to watch, listen to and play this Christmas
    The best films of 2024 to stream over Christmas

    From a stirring second world war epic to a heartfelt Iranian gem, the FT’s critic picks 10 unmissable movies of the year

  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Six films to watch this week
    Mufasa: The Lion King — Disney prequel is cutesy and clunky but sturdy

    ‘Moonlight’ director Barry Jenkins delivers a rollicking tale built on techno-witchcraft and tunes by Lin-Manuel Miranda

    A lion cub leaps out of a tree
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    Media
    Religious films are saving grace in tough year for Hollywood

    Success of speciality distributor Fathom Events comes as studios wrestle with Donald Trump’s election victory

    A scene from the movie ‘The Chosen’
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Review
    The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim — Tolkien reimagined as lumbering anime

    Kenji Kamiyama directs a saga set two centuries before the events of Peter Jackson’s trilogy

  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Review
    Queer — Daniel Craig is mesmerising in a swooning hymn to beauty

    Luca Guadagnino adapts William S Burroughs’ transgressive text about the pursuit of elusive carnal ecstasy

    A young man in an almost see-thru pale green short-sleeved shirt behind an older man in a black shirt and trilby
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Review
    The Universal Theory — a visually dazzling Alpine sci-fi noir

    A young doctoral student finds himself drawn into a murky mystery in a film with echoes of Kubrick and Welles

  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Review
    The Bibi Files — Netanyahu exposed in riveting documentary

    The Israeli prime minister exudes lofty entitlement and outraged ire in a film probing the corruption charges against him

  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Pat Boonnitipat expected to lose money on his debut film. It’s become an Asian cultural supernova

    The Thai director’s ‘How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies’ has hit a nerve with its tale of fragmented family

    A young man in a white short-sleeved shirt sitting in a room decorated with framed film posters, with his arm draped over a railing
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