James Black movies, cinema features and reviews

With the year at the halfway point, our writers choose their favourite films, from daring documentaries to box office bombs

From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital

From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital

Though there are a few nice ideas, this follow-up to the surprisingly good 2019 original is bogged down by the genre's worst instincts

The writer's 1903 novella is transposed to a Paris nightclub in Patric Chiha’s lushly-drawn but somewhat emotionally bereft new film

Overrated hack or underrated auteur? Fedor Tot explores the twisty filmmaker's output to mark the release of Knock at the Cabin

As another year draws to a close, our writers choose their favourite films, from daring debuts to boundary-breaking blockbusters

James Cameron's belated follow-up to his 2009 smash hit excels in its action sequences but is as narratively soggy as the original

Fedor Tot reflects on this year's incarnation of the Italian festival dedicated to rediscovering and reframing the cinema of the past

Anne Hathaway and Anthony Hopkins star in this languid semi-autobiographical drama about a Jewish family in '80s New York

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