Wolves, wizards and white mares... As animated epic The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim goes on release, we enter into some of the cinema’s most vivid fantasy realms.

A quantum physicist turns sleuth when a series of gruesome murders occur at an academic alpine summit in Timm Kröger’s heavily stylised sci-fi noir.

Historic injustices, present-day conflicts and an ecologically depleted future – the subjects of this year’s documentaries offered little to feel cheerful about, but the sheer number of fine films was ...

In an era of short attention spans and flash-in-the-pan careers, this year has stood out for the amount of work produced by filmmaking veterans. But anyone looking for evidence to confirm a general ...

Animated film has never been more popular, as the glut of sequels at the multiplex will testify. Meanwhile, smaller-scale independent productions continue to startle and seduce with their originality.

Kelly Reichardt, Bong Joon Ho and Lynne Ramsay are all back in harness, and fans of Richard Linklater, Josh O’Connor, Tatiana Maslany and Jessie Buckley can look forward to double helpings in 2025.

On the cover: The 50 best films of 2024 – how many have you seen? A packed double issue featuring interviews with Luca Guadagnino, RaMell Ross, Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, Robert Eggers, Amy Adams ...

Timothée Chalamet’s commitment is admirable and director James Mangold’s choice to focus to Dylan’s 1960s rise to fame pays off, but this film struggles to balance the conventional notes of a music ...

As his new film Queer comes to cinemas, we backtrack through Luca Guadagnino’s cinema of hormonal longing and desire.

Best director went to Rungano Nyoni for her second feature, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, with best screenplay handed to Sandhya Suri for her thriller Santosh. Santosh, which was also backed by the BFI ...

BFI Flare is the UK’s largest queer film event, screening the best in contemporary LGBTQIA+ cinema from across the globe, in addition to a rich selection of events and archive titles. The festival ...

Grail quests, apparitions in the woods and the unearthing of buried secrets. What are you watching this weekend?