Christopher Sharp 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

Florian Zeller takes a baffling, colossal step backwards in a follow-up to The Father that has nothing to say and still says it badly

To mark the release of Crimes of the Future, Steph Green sorts the body-obsessed auteur's vast filmography from worst to best...

To coincide with the release of The Batman, we look back at cinema's decades-long grappling with the Caped Crusader...

Alessandro Nivola and Vera Farmiga shine, but the show's perfect balance of comedy and drama gets a bit lost in the transition to film

Mona Fastvold's moving frontier drama, with fine work from Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby, doesn't waste a moment

As the director's novelisation of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood hits bookshelves, Hannah Strong reflects on his oeuvre so far...

Lawrence Michael Levine’s bizarre melodrama is a compellingly crazy meditation on art and life, with career-best work from Plaza

Carey Mulligan is devastating in Emerald Fennell’s disorienting story of love, violence, and pain that refuses to give easy answers

With Raya and the Last Dragon now on Disney+, Ella Kemp tackles the entire animated canon. To quote a very famous mouse: Oh, boy!

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