Film

For a woman who never desired the limelight, Silvana Mangano achieved cinematic immortality almost in spite of herself

An astounding, eccentric documentary uncovers a murky assassination plot involving Belgium, the CIA and Louis Armstrong

The troubled birth and lasting genius of Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time in America

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How Stephen Frears’ The Hit – the first movie based on British gangsters exiled in Spain – finally lived up to its name

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An edge-of-the-pulpit papal thriller from the screenwriter of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light offers lessons in weakness, venality and doubt

Adapted from August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork and produced by Denzel Washington, this feature is a family affair

Her young daughters grieving before a grave she didn’t occupy was not even the worst tribulation to afflict the life of the Hungarian

At 86, with a number of all-time classics to his name, Ridley Scott has earned the right to have some fun

The wisecracking writer was traumatised and transformed by her 1937 visit to Spain to support the Republican cause in the civil war

In Andrea Arnold’s feature, Nykiya Adams and Barry Keoghan present a moving performance without straying into sentimentality

The relationship between Jean Marais and Jean Cocteau was one of the great romances of 20th-century European culture

Textured and monumental, Blitz is the work of a great British director at the height of his powers

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Thomas Vinterberg founded Dogma 95 and changed the movie industry for ever. Is another revolution possible – and what would it look like?

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Joker: Folie à Deux takes music and makes it a medium for deception, pain and lethal misunderstanding

The male film director who puts powerful females first

Francis Ford Coppola’s hell-for-leather sci-fi epic was 40 years in the making and is an extraordinary film that defies convention

The surprising origins of The Prisoner of Zenda, the ultimate swashbuckling tale of derring-do

The Outrun, directed by Nora Fingscheidt, tackles alcoholism, sobriety and an outsider’s search for the soul of Europe

Our editor-at-large's rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema, theatre and books

The trailblazing French actress defied Hollywood’s ageism to win an Academy Award for Room at the Top

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The rise and fall of the spaghetti western

The Frenchman relished each project with its opportunity for reinvention, presenting a new challenge each time

Our editor-at-large's rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, books and cinema

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema and books

Angelina Jolie’s Callas biopic sinks at the Venice Film Festival

A raucous, funny movie about controversial Northern Irish rap group Kneecap turns out to be an impassioned cry for the power of indigenous language

The director emerged from a well-trodden European emigration narrative to become a Zelig-like figure in the early history of modern popular culture