Splitsville

Engagingly smart comedy about fidelity, led by Dakota Johnson

The Last Blossom

Moving, low-key crime thriller told using artful Japanese anime

Orwell 2+2=5

Stunningly powerful Raoul Peck doc explores Orwell's prescient ideas

Holy Days

Warm and silly New Zealand road movie with Judy, Miriam and Jacki

DJ Ahmet

Hugely likeable drama about sheep-herding brothers in North Macedonia

Underland

Artful, evocative doc explores our fascination with going underground

Awards Mania!
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SHADOWS SWEEPSTAKES
Who should have won
the prizes this year.
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OSCAR • BAFTA • GLOBES • DORIANS
LONDON CRITICS • ONLINE CRITICS

Timmy plots future
25.MAR: Chalamet will produce and star in Playground, based on the novel about floating cities
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Rockwell & Harrelson team up for black comedy Cackling of the Dodos
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Dunst in MINECRAFT/HOUSEMAID 2
Mau & Lang in THE DREGS horror
Melonis team up for CHOP CHEEZE
Courtney & Carrero join JARED
Ramirez & Vasquez have MOTIVES
Coel is remaking BLOODSPORT
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Jane takes a letter
22.MAR: Fonda will
produce and star in The Correspondent, as a lawyer confronting her past
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Cotillard & Goggins will star in Job, as a couple staging a biblical play
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Powell for THE DEATH ROLL horror
Doherty joins Meyers' romcom
O'Connell & O'Brian for QUIET III
Bratt joins Davis in ALLY CLARK
Chan leads PAWFECT AGENTS action
Anders makes GAME OF LIFE movie
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Oprah’s baton twirler
18.MAR: Winfrey teams up with HER to make Sims' drama about a ballerina who becomes a majorette
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Cooper lined up to direct and costar with Robbie in her Ocean's prequel
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Janney, Waltz, Bridges in MINIONS
Ortega & Russell in SINGLE remake
Duchovny & Simpson for SOAPBOX
Oswalt & Bellows join HOLIDAZE
Lee is back for GANGSTER remake
KPOP DEMON HUNTERS will be back!
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3 Apr:
THE DRAMA
THE STRANGER
NIGHT STAGE
D IS FOR DISTANCE
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10 Apr:
CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN'
YOU, ME & TUSCANY
UNDERTONE
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER
THE CHRISTOPHERS
HAMLET
THE STRANGER
CHAO
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17 Apr:
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
REBUILDING
DEPARTURES
DIAMONDS
MIROIRS NO 3
EAGLES OF THE REPUBLIC
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24 Apr:
MICHAEL
MOTHER MARY
ROSE OF NEVADA
I SWEAR
PRIMAVERA
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Shadows @ 40th BFI Flare
FESTIVAL: LGBTQIA+ festivities take over the Southbank 18-29 March...

A question of faith
STAGE
Where There Is No Time grapples fashion, at Seven Dials until 28 Mar...

Rich’s Best & Worst of 2025
THE 45th SHADOWS AWARDS
More lists than you can count...

A season of Italian films
FESTIVAL: Diving into a special programme from BFI and Cinecittà...

February TV Roundup
SCREEN: The Beauty, Heated Rivalry, Stranger Things 5, The Night Manager 2, Wonder Man, Industry 4, more...

Grounded in Indian soil
INTERVIEW: Chatting with filmmaker Rohan Parashuram Kanawade about his acclaimed romance Cactus Pears...

Remember my name
DANCE
Pina Bausch's Sweet Mambo premieres at Sadler's Wells, until 21st Feb...

More relevant than ever
INTERVIEW: Writer-director Bill Condon and actor Tonatiuh talk about Kiss of the Spider Woman...

Married to the job
STAGE
Gecko's sparky The Wedding explores social contracts, at Sadler's East...

Tale as old as time
STAGE
Charing Cross Theatre's adult panto Beauty and the Beast until 11 Jan...

Let it all hang out
STAGE
Cheeky song and dance in Boys in the Buff, Golden Goose until 10th Jan...

The boss’ new groove
DANCE
ZooNation's dazzling hip-hop Ebony Scrooge, Sadler's East until 4 Jan...

November TV Roundup
SCREEN Boots, Only Murders 5, Chad Powers, Peacemaker 2, MobLand, Morning Show 4, Alien: Earth, more...

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STAGE: The Great Christmas Feast
STAGE: The Fit Prince at King's Head
STAGE: RVT riotoius panto Growled
STAGE: Brick Lane Music Hall's Magic
DANCE: Ballet Black's Shadows
DANCE: NDT's Figures in Extinction
DANCE: Thikra at Sadler's Wells
STAGE: Get Down Tonight, Charing X
SEP TV: Chief of War, Wednesday...
DANCE: Quadrophenia, Sadler's Wells
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A Magnificent Life

Beautifully animated but brisk and talky biopic about Marcel Orphuls

Mr Burton

Toby Jones and Harry Lawtey are excellent in this formulaic biopic

Abode

Warmly involving five-part film from Ireland mixes comedy and drama

Past Life

Both over-serious and silly, this hypnotsis thriller is a guilty pleasure

Reminders of Him

Simplistic and sappy, this moving romantic drama at least looks great

How to Make a Killing

Black comedy with Glen Powell starts well but then turns strangely grim

Resurrection

Ambitious Chinese epic is dazzling, moving and somewnat out of reach

One Last Deal

Danny Dyer goes for broke in this one-man show about a sports agent

The Bride!

Bale & Buckley are full-on in Gyllenhaal's audacious, uneven romp

Hoppers

Bale & Buckley are full-on in Gyllenhaal's audacious, uneven romp

Scream 7

Neve Campbell & Courteney Cox are back for more stabby nastiness

Good Luck, Have Fun,
Don’t Die
Madcap sci-fi comedy thriller with a time-travelling Sam Rockwell

Scare Out

Sleek Chinese counter-espionage thriller is choppy but intriguing

Jimmy and Stiggs

Outrageous yucky home-made horror from actor-filmmaker Joe Begos

Whistle

Gleefully grisly high school horror romp starring Dafne Keen

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WHISTLE
BROKEN BIRD
HAMLET
JIMPA
THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER
ALL THAT'S LEFT OF YOU
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Two Prosecutors

Stylised pitch-black political comedy set in a Kafkaesque Soviet Union

La Grazia

Another dazzling Roman odyssey from Paolo Sorrentino and Toni Servillo

Dead Man’s Wire

Gus Van Sant's true-life thriller with Dacre Montgomery & Bill Skarsgard

The Good Boy [aka: Heel]

Offbeat British drama with Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough

Arco

Engaging animated adventure from France about a young time-traveller

Late Shift

Leonie Benesch is outstanding as a frazzled nurse in this Swiss drama

Broken English

Inventive, riveting doc traces the life and career of Marianne Faithfull

Mirrors No 3

Paula Beer leads another involving, subtly nuanced drama from Germany

Everybody to Kenmure
Street
Timely, electrically charged doc about a Glasgow commmunity protest

The Love That Remains

Bittersweet Icelandic drama is an engaging, mesmerising journey

Scarlet

Epic-scale anime spin on Hamlet is visually spectacular and moving

Sound of Falling

Profoundly involving German drama traces four generations of women

Sirāt

Absolute jaw-dropper of a thriller, traversing the deserts of North Africa

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THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE
THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE
PALESTINE COMEDY CLUB
ALL YOU NEED IS KILL
THE SECRET AGENT
KOKUHO
COLD STORAGE
WASTEMAN
IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU
A PRIVATE LIFE
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
CRIME 101
GOAT
PALESTINE 36
MY FATHER'S SHADOW
LITTLE AMELIE
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