From Parasite to Anora: how Cannes became an Oscars power player
The increasingly international Academy has warmed to more and more Cannes film festival premieres, leaving all eyes on this year’s edition
Key takeaways from Oscars 2025: Brody beats orchestra, Brits keep it classy and Kieran Culkin botches his big moment
The awards ceremony can’t escape Harvey Weinstein and two fairytales come a cropper
The dazzling underdog with amazing legs: how Anora swept the Oscars
Sean Baker’s film took five Academy Awards on Sunday evening. Here’s how it triggered the landslide
February 2025
Lars von Trier admitted to a care centre following Parkinson’s diagnosis
‘How often do you see Palestinian stories in fiction?’: the film-maker trying to adjust our focus
January 2025
Bertrand Blier obituary
The reader interview
Post your questions for Claes Bang
December 2024
Rumours review – close encounters for Cate Blanchett and the magnificent G7
Seven world leaders – including Charles Dance’s dozy US president – are trapped in a forest in this amusing but bizarre apocalyptic comedy
November 2024
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Bird review – Andrea Arnold’s untamed Barry Keoghan tale is a curate’s egg
Toads who sweat hallucinogens, lonely pre-teens and a sudden German in a kilt: Arnold’s pick’n’mix latest dives as much as it soars
October 2024
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
The Apprentice review – cartoon version of chump-in-chief Donald Trump’s early years
Ali Abbasi’s film presents young Donald as an amoral narcissist, wastes the talent of Jeremy Strong and includes a grisly rape scene that is quickly glossed over
August 2024
Black Dog review – state-of-the-Chinese-nation drama with feelgood furry antics
A squadron of dog catchers, sent into the Gobi desert to round up a bevy of hounds, adds stark absurdism to this commentary on Chinese society
July 2024
Shelley Duvall obituary
Film actor who starred in The Shining and made seven films with Robert Altman
Trans actor Karla Sofía Gascón sues French far-right politician after ‘sexist insult’
The actor, who became the first transgender woman to win the best actress prize at Cannes, had earlier dedicated her award to ‘all the trans people who are suffering’
