This is Carol Reed’s own shooting script, featuring his hand-written notes and showing Graham Greene’s original scene on the ferris wheel before Orson Welles’s improvised addition of the famous ...

As his new crime thriller Caught Stealing arrives in cinemas, we pick a beginner’s path through Darren Aronofsky’s cinema of visceral intensity, where minds and bodies are pushed to their limits.

The Romanian director combines three hours of sketches, cabaret, comedy, parody, satire, invective, AI morphing imagery for his riff on the dracula myth – the film is so ironically aloof, it’s hard to ...

A young couple move to the countryside and are overcome by a magnet-like attraction that threatens to fuse their bodies together permanently in Michael Shanks’s gruesome yarn.

From Stalker to Hard to Be a God: as a wild Czech New Wave sci-fi farce surfaces on Blu-ray, we survey the unhinged dystopias and mind-bending metaphysics of the best science fiction films from ...

The British director returns to the lo-fi stylings of his early work with a multiverse sci-fi starring four characters in search of a narrative form.

Writer-director Anthony Schatteman’s film about a blossoming romance between two Belgian teenage boys has few surprises, but there’s something to admire in its relentless positivity.

Mike Flanagan’s latest Stephen King adaptation eschews horror for a life-affirming take on the end of the world. Stars Tom Hiddleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor spoke to us about their favourite King ...

Director Mike Flanagan has proved himself to be King’s most sympathetic interpreter on film with The Life of Chuck, the story of a man’s life in three acts, told backwards.

Ten titles showcasing bold, inventive and distinctive filmmaking compete for Best Film at the 2025 BFI London Film Festival Awards.

Writer-director Hikari returns to the BFI London Film Festival with her second feature as American Express Gala, hosted at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall with screenings around the UK.

News has changed, and so has how it is gathered and disseminated. In an era of pervasive surveillance, authoritarian power and weaponised social media, these 10 films reflect today’s world back at us.