A PRIVATE LIFE
Jodie Foster returns with considerable charm
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A galaxy of stars
Paul wonders if it's too late to stop now...
Ambient dreams in rainbow arches
Paul says goodbye to Linda on a fine spring day
Tokyo Story
Paul gets his wings clipped in Japan
THE LAST VIKING
There’s something of Preston Sturges or the Coen Brothers to Jensen's screwball tale of sibling reconciliation
Ankle-deep in ducks
McCartney, McKellen, Rohrwacher and Barthelme star in our top 10 for 29 May 2026
To meet you in the falling rain...
Paul finds a new direction at the end of the world
Cathedral swoopings
The honeyed, potent swoon of the Cocteau Twins
Rich conceptual orrery
A review of the Magnetic Fields reissued 69 Love Songs, and a Q&A with Stephin Merritt
The last days of disco
Pet Shops Boys in the rock and roll years
Scary monsters
Dry Cleaning explain how art and humour are our best defence from techbro supercreeps
Losing in front of your home crowd
Heaven doesn’t seem to be your home
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Farewell cheerless marshes
Hooray for Hollywood
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You know your luck too well
Four years of scandal, acclaim, revenge and betrayal
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Good times for a change
It is your sacred mission to restore the sanctity of the Pop Moment
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THE CHRISTOPHERS
McKellen carries the whole thing quite magnificently on his pale, scrawny, octogenarian shoulders
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KÖLN 75
By capturing the skronky zeitgeist, Fluk enriches our experience of the performance more vividly than a conventional biopic
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DJ AHMET
The script hits its beats with the precision of a well-programmed 808, and occasionally with similar predictability
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ROSE OF NEVADA
If you are willing to let the salt, grit and spray of Jenkin's film seep into your bones, this is his most disquieting work yet.
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THE STRANGER
An overly polite rendition of a venerable classic
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MIROIRS NO. 3
A modest addition to a great director's filmography
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FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER
Three moody jazz variations in a very minor key
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LA GRAZIA
After the overblown Parthenope, "Diet Sorrentino" is no bad thing
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SOUND OF FALLING
Like the Bergman of Fanny and Alexander filming Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space