• Richard Olivier remembers growing up with his father, Sir Laurence Olivier.    
  • Cannes 2013: Nicole Kidman joins Heidi Klum on the red carpet for Thursday's screenings of Nebraska and Blue is the Warmest Colour
  • Emma Watson and Sofia Coppola are the latest stylish stars to light up the Croisette at the Cannes Film Festival.    
  • Precious little joy is on offer about in a marriage comedy about divorced parents who must get back together for their son's big day Weddings can often be occasions of trauma, as well as joy, and so it proves with this ensemble comedy. Well – minus the joy, that is. Adapted with tin ear and cack ...
  • Perfectly serviceable though it is, this animated woodland saga feels cobbled together from many sources That title is inviting the addition of the word "fail", but actually this is perfectly serviceable family animation. Even so, "generic" might have been a better description. Its woodland saga fee...
  • Although it feels a little homemade at times, this film switches effectively between dramatisation, documentary and contemporary performances of the composer's works This drama-documentary, coinciding with Britten's centenary year, is unlikely to bring the composer to new audiences, but music lovers...
  • Hayao Miyazaki's family fantasy is full of benign spirituality, prelapsarian innocence, but little icky sentiment An established classic in Japan, this animated family fantasy is a recommended gateway drug to the rich, bright, hand-drawn universe of director Hayao Miyazaki. You could call it a ghost...
  • This animated Japanese masterpiece is a war story as wrenching as any live-action movie If you thought Bambi or Up were as emotional as animation gets, you need to see this Japanese masterpiece. It's a war story as wrenching as any live-action movie, and it has reduced many a viewer to tears – thi...
  • Treat yourself to a re-released gem of the American new wave with an astonishing performance from a young Jack Nicholson American film-maker Bob Rafelson has just celebrated his 80th birthday, and you couldn't give him or yourself a nicer present than to see this marvellous film, now restored and re...
  • Robbie Collin and Tim Robey review the rest of the week's films including Something in the Air.    
  • Less a caper than a trudge, the third film in the blokey comedy franchise has hit the wall They probably won't be putting "not as offensively racist as the last one" on the poster, but that's about as much praise as the (hopefully) final instalment of the blokey comedy franchise merits. It could ha...
  • The Hangover Part III is a lame, non-alcoholic caper movie, says Tim Robey.    
  • A life-sized Star Wars X-wing starfighter, made entirely out of Lego, touches down in New York's Times Square on Thursday
  • James Caan had a point when he took modern cinema to task in Cannes, says Jenny McCartney    
  • James Caan had a point when he took modern cinema to task in Cannes, says Jenny McCartney    
  • For years he has waited while others mopped up the applause. Now the star of the Coen brothers' Inside Llewyn Davies is finally hot property This is Oscar Isaac's fourth Cannes. He was here in 2009 with Agora, then Robin Hood in 2010, then Drive the year after. Actually, he's quite the film fest fix...
  • Abdellatif Kechiche's latest film has been hailed as a landmark in cinematic depictions of lesbian love and female sexuality A hail of enthusiastic tweets followed the Cannes premiere of Blue is the Warmest Colour – elevating it to the status of the critics' favourite of the festival, and not a mo...
  • Hollywood is still squeamish about homosexuality, money can't buy you happiness, and there is no conceivable situation in which Ryan Gosling doesn't look hot – these are the things you never truly learn until you have spent a week at the world's greatest film festivalPlastic surgeons are the new ...
  • Xan Brooks reviews Nebraska, Alexander Payne's entry to the 2013 Cannes film festivalXan BrooksElliot Smith
  • Shot in black and white, Alexander Payne's new movie is a melancholic, gentle road movie This year at Cannes, film after film has delved into the world of the wealthy. The Great Gatsby's lavish parties have been rivalled by only t...
  • Alexander Payne's latest film has a shuffling, grizzly-bearish rhythm all of its own, says Robbie Collin.    
  • French favourite Jerry Lewis, 87, presents new movie and keeps press – mostly – in stitches at the Cannes film festival The French adoration of comic Jerry Lewis is a legendary, and the country at last got its wish: Lewis has a film at the Cannes film festival for the first time since 1989, an...
  • Catch up with the last seven days in the world of filmThe big story This time last week the biggest story coming out of Cannes was The Great Gatsby – but oh, how quickly things change. Since then critics have been getting in a lather about all manner of things, but no film has been quite as divisi...
  • As Soderbergh's Liberace biopic hits our screens, why is it that homosexual love stories now work so much better than hetero? I know where I'll be Sunday night. The reviews coming out of Cannes for Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra, which airs on HBO on Sunday night, have tu...
  • The exceptional Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra, starring Michael Douglas, proves why film still needs Steven Soderbergh, says Robbie Collin.    
  • The 'actress' is in Grozny, shooting a film with the French bon viveur, and hanging out with colourful Chechen president Ramzan Dakyrov. But, best of all, Steven Seagal is also in town To a news report concerning Gerard Depardieu's views on the alleged Boston bombers, and a statement so appallingly ...

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