Guy Lodge
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Streaming: the best films set in Venice
As the Venice film festival turns 80, we pick the titles that capture the city’s allure, from desolate Don’t Look Now to romantic Summertime and Top Hat’s cheery glamour → Read More
Streaming: the best holiday romance films
Netflix’s featherweight A Tourist’s Guide to Love follows a familiar arc, but there’s more to fall for in classics from Summertime to The Green Ray → Read More
Streaming: Babylon and the best films about Hollywood
Damien Chazelle’s three-hour ode to Tinseltown debauchery joins classic films about Hollywood from Sunset Boulevard to Barton Fink and Adaptation → Read More
‘A24 finds the zeitgeist and sets the trend’: how a small indie producer came to dominate the Oscars
Everything Everywhere All at Once raked in $100m and is tipped to win big at the Academy Awards. If it does, that caps quite a decade for the hip New York firm credited with getting young viewers into the arthouse. What’s its secret? → Read More
Streaming: the best films about journalism
Gritty drama She Said, about the two reporters who exposed Harvey Weinstein, joins newsroom classics from His Girl Friday to All the President’s Men → Read More
Best of Sundance: 17 Must-See Movies From the 2023 Festival
From 'Fair Play' to 'Past Lives,' Variety critics select the best movies of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. → Read More
And the winner should be … the season’s most overlooked movie performances
While Cate Blanchett and Colin Farrell continue to rack up awards, as we edge towards the Oscars, there are other actors who deserve to be included → Read More
Streaming: the best hopeful films for a new year
It’s time to embrace positivity – from the underdog idealism of Rocky to the transcendent A Matter of Life and Death and the gloriously morbid optimism of Harold and Maude → Read More
Streaming: Bodies Bodies Bodies, Sharp Stick and other great Gen Z films
Halina Reijn’s barbed satire of 21st-century youth culture and a bold tale of sexual discovery from Lena Dunham join Gen Z gems Booksmart, Eighth Grade and more → Read More
Streaming: the best love triangle films
Claire Denis’s Both Sides of the Blade, starring Juliette Binoche, joins other classics where three’s a crowd, from The Piano to The Favourite → Read More
Visibly horrified: the coming out of queer terror cinema
From Nosferatu to A Nightmare on Elm Street, LGBTQ+ viewers have long detected a queer undertone in many horror films. Now the genre is bringing its gay subtext to the surface → Read More
Streaming: Top Gun: Maverick and the best of Tom Cruise
The age-defying actor’s return in a belated Top Gun sequel adds to a fascinating career ranging from Magnolia to Mission: Impossible → Read More
Streaming: the best films set on trains
Hurtling Brad Pitt thriller vehicle Bullet Train follows in the tracks of classics from Shanghai Express and The Lady Vanishes to Unstoppable → Read More
Even Harry Styles’ presence can’t make My Policeman’s discussion of queerness interesting
Michael Grandage’s new film has gay cast members and crew, but the literacy of queer themes in mainstream cinema feels painfully unevolved → Read More
Streaming: the best werewolf films
Gael García Bernal’s performance on Disney+ as Marvel’s crime-fighting Werewolf By Night joins hirsute favourites from The Wolf Man to The Howling → Read More
Streaming: the best Sidney Poitier films
An engaging new Apple TV+ documentary about the trailblazing actor is an ideal introduction to his work, from Blackboard Jungle to In the Heat of the Night → Read More
Our critics’ guide to Korean culture
Kitty Empire on music You might have mimed riding a pony, Gangnam Style, in 2012. But some argue that Psy’s K-pop gateway drug was a novelty record and not a true expression of the precision-tooled, gendered group phenomenon that is K-Pop. Sonically, K-pop beats western pop at its own game, taking the busier, upbeat end of US R&B and supercharging it, stuffing each track with multiple… → Read More
Streaming: Men and the best British folk horror films
Alex Garland’s rural chiller joins classics of the genre from The Wicker Man to Cry of the Banshee → Read More
Harry Styles’ comments on gay sex and sexuality are frustratingly coy
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the actor-singer stresses that his new same-sex romantic drama is not as gay as it sounds → Read More
‘She disappears or goes blank like Garbo’: the enigma of Tilda Swinton
The British actor’s new films show the full spectrum of her capabilities as the most unconventional of Hollywood A-listers → Read More