The humour might be inconsistent, but there’s real chemistry between Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan as former lovers and bandmates who meet again for a well paid one-off gig.

Josh O’Connor stars as a wannabe criminal who fumbles a small-time art robbery in Reichardt’s ingenious evocation of 1970s suburban Massachusetts.

Although overshadowed by their famous brother John – the ‘father of British documentary’ – Ruby and Marion Grierson deserve recognition for their own pioneering innovations in documentary filmmaking.

The winning submission by Ivie Uzebu offers a vibrant and insightful take on Mountains, the debut feature from Haitian-American filmmaker Monica Sorelle.

Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor’s tale of gay love and folk music set in early 20th-century America is handsomely made but lacks emotional intensity.

As Memoir of a Snail comes to BFI Player, Andrew Osmond joins the dots of recent critically acclaimed animated features that have seen indie creators taking on the big studios.

On what would have been her 100th birthday, we remember model-turned-actress Martha Vickers and her scene-stealing performance – playing younger sister to Lauren Bacall – as the flirtatious Carmen ...

At the Portuguese festival, Kieron Corless is impressed by a revelatory Binka Zhelyazkova retrospective, a witty protest film baiting the BBFC, and the work IndieLisboa is doing to get children ...

Nintendo's twist on the online shooter swapped guns, bullets and gore for spray cans, rollers and gallons of glossy, sloppy paint. Now 10 years old, we celebrate the franchise that threw teams of ...

From bold Pride Month premieres to global cinematic treasures, June’s BFI Player film line-up is a celebration of identity, imagination and storytelling at its most powerful. Dive into a month of ...

Ophuls’ most notorious documentary is his four-hour epic The Sorrow and the Pity, which controversially unpicked the reality of France’s history under Nazi occupation.

Special guests in venue this month will include Moviedrome presenter Alex Cox and series producer Nick Freand Jones, filmmaker Peter Strickland, and Psychoville actors Steve Pemberton and Reece ...