Joachim Trier's melancholy, playful film, which examines the reckoning that takes place between a selfish film director and his estranged daughters in the wake of their mother's death, is exquisitely ...

Ring in the new year with a trio of Buñuels, a wealth of Wisemans and a subscription exclusive: Marion Cotillard in the acclaimed dark fairytale The Ice Tower.

Ari Aster's Eddington, in which Joaquin Phoenix's conspiracist sheriff and Pedro Pascal's tech-friendly centrist lock horns in an election, lays bare the deep divisions in the American psyche. The ...

Director Josh Safdie has pulled together a vibrant gallery of New York characters for a never-say-die American story that’s bursting with humour and that trademark Safdie kineticism.

Inspired by his experience of being interrogated in prison in Iran, Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or-winning It Was Just an Accident feels like the dissident filmmaker's most direct attack on the regime to ...

As a new collection curated by Sofas & Stuff arrives on BFI Player, we spoke to the Sofas & Stuff team about their favourite festive films and viewing traditions.

Alfred Hitchcock often preferred sets to real locations and – eerily empty of actors and action – these photographs show his constructed backdrops for the Highlands, train and Palladium sequences of ...

Steven Soderbergh’s smart, fun spy thriller Black Bag is the kind of mid-budget, star-led adult entertainment that has become an endangered species in cinemas. Here the director explains why the box ...

The Phoenician Scheme returns Wes Anderson to the straightforward pleasures of the caper movie. He talks about writing the film for its star, Benicio del Toro, his fascination with charismatic, ...

James Cameron’s sprawling ensemble piece sees the Na’vi fighting against diabolical human colonisers once again, but it’s more concerned with scale than sophistication.

James L. Brooks’ first film as director in 15 years has some great comic moments, but feels like it’s sleepwalking through its sentimental story of a young state Governor thrown in the deep end of ...

Antonia Bird’s film about faith and sexuality caused an outrage upon release in 1994, but now looks like the nuanced human drama about tolerance that it always was.