Film

The much-hyped festive blockbuster staring Kristen Stewart may be sold as heart-warming seasonal tale, but it presents as a painful watch, wrapped-up in outdated clichés of the queer experience

Remi Weekes transposes the classic haunted house genre to a mouldering council flat inhabited by South Sudanese refugees

John Kelsey on how the French iconoclast rewrites film history, one image at a time

The new Netflix documentary is a distraction from the drive to regulate tech companies, including Netflix itself

The filmmaker’s latest documentary, Swimming Out till the Sea Turns Blue, is an object study of the generations affected by industrialization

The gothic tales of notorious racist H.P. Lovecraft provide source material for HBO’s new show about ‘the hauntedness of Black life’

The first blockbuster to return to theatres demonstrates Hollywood’s eagerness to ‘exploit bodily presence for profit’ during the pandemic

The artist’s exhibition at Galerie Imane Farès, Paris, shows the multiple faces of resistance

‘First Cow’, the director’s seventh feature film, which began streaming 10 July, offers a humanistic alternative to the grand myths of Manifest Destiny

In the director’s sweeping new Vietnam War film, it is never clear ‘who is the colonizer and who is the colonized’ 

From his parodies of celebrity culture to his depiction of gender identities, there is still a lot to unpack on the centenary of the film director’s birth

Can Reiner Holzemer’s documentary finally lift the lid on the famously private designer? 

Steven Zultanski on the Chicago-based cult video artist

The artist’s exhibition at Centre d’art contemporain Passerelle, Brest, blends gender, race and class politics with science fiction

The most urgent works at this year’s 70th Berlinale Film Festival are about coming to terms with culture’s inherited mythologies

Figures from art and film came together for the first Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award

In the beloved Japanese anime films, childhood is a fantastic place of nightmare and wonder

Premiering in the US and UK this month, Céline Sciamma’s lesbian period drama employs the myth of Orpheus to re-centre the female gaze

Meet the ten emerging filmmakers shortlisted for the first Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award

‘A living, breathing work of art’: Prospect Cottage in Dungeness is as much a part of Jarman’s legacy as his films, writing and paintings