• August 9 2025
  InterviewArts

  ‘When I fled Russia, I knew it was one-way’ — director Kirill Serebrennikov on exile, uncertainty and Josef Mengele

  Now based in Berlin, the émigré is juggling work in film, opera, ballet and preparing for his Salzburg theatre debut

  
• August 9 2025
  Filmmaker Humphrey Jennings: a visionary of canvas and camera

  This summer offers a rare chance to see the paintings of the surrealist whose ‘camera poems’ found the sublime in the ordinary

  
• August 8 2025
  HTSI

  Celine Song wants to save you from capitalism – with a romcom

  The film director talks money, Materialists and the ‘holy miracle’ of love

  
• August 8 2025
  Television

  The political thriller has returned — and this time it’s personal

  Amid a new wave of the genre for our volatile times, Netflix series ‘Hostage’ puts a UK prime minister and her family in the line of fire

  
• August 8 2025
  India Business Briefing

  Trump’s tariff threats hit Indian rupee Premium content

  Also in this newsletter: AI changes the plot in Indian cinema, and devastating flash floods in Uttarakhand

  
• August 7 2025
  Review

  Six films to watch this week

  Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan reunite in ‘Freakier Friday’; ‘Weapons’ is a striking horror story from rising director Zach Cregger; documentary ‘Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore’ tells the deaf actor’s complex story; ‘The Kingdom’ is a father-daughter tale set in the Corsican underworld; Ukrainian troops’ bodycam footage delivers the visceral ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’; Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson star in reloaded comedy ‘The Naked Gun’ — reviews by Danny Leigh

  
• August 7 2025
  Six films to watch this week

  Weapons — vanishing children are just the start of this hyper-eerie horror

  In fast-rising director Zach Cregger’s movie, mystery deepens amid a vividly realised everyday

  
• August 7 2025
  Six films to watch this week

  The Kingdom — coming-of-age drama with a mafia twist

  Non-professional actors crank up the authenticity in this father-daughter tale set in the Corsican underworld

  
• August 7 2025
  Six films to watch this week

  Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore — documentary tells the deaf actor’s complex story

  An Oscar winner for Children of a Lesser God, she talks candidly about a life of struggle, trauma and activism

  
• August 6 2025
  Six films to watch this week

  Freakier Friday — the body-swap comedy hits millennial middle age

  Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan reunite 22 years on as a podcasting therapist and a business manager/single mother

  
• August 1 2025
  ReviewAlbums

  Renée Rapp: Bite Me — top-notch performer turns on the vocal fireworks

  The pop star — who got her break in Broadway’s ‘Mean Girls’ — shows off her versatility in her freethinking second album

  
• July 31 2025
  Six films to watch this week

  The Naked Gun — Liam Neeson is a worthy successor to Leslie Nielsen in expert dumb comedy

  A mad scramble of pop culture tropes lands with aplomb as crime-fighting savant Frank Drebin returns to the screen

  
• July 31 2025
  Review

  Late Shift — unnerving slice of a nurse’s working life

  Petra Volpe’s thrillerish film follows an overworked medical professional under pressure at a Swiss hospital

  
• July 31 2025
  Review

  Happy Gilmore 2 — Adam Sandler’s foul-mouthed underdog is back

  A smorgasbord of famous friends join the comic actor in this elite golf comeback

  
• July 31 2025
  Six films to watch this week

  2000 Meters to Andriivka — stark Ukraine reportage from Oscar-winning director

  Much of what ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov documents in this unmissable film comes straight from troops’ bodycams

  
• July 26 2025
  Interview

  Director Dag Johan Haugerud on his utopian Oslo Stories trilogy

  The Norwegian’s movie triptych has been picking up prizes for its funny, tender treatment of sex and relationships

  
• July 24 2025
  Review

  Gazer — Ariella Mastroianni is a wire-sharp star in taut, ingenious thriller

  Time itself is a mystery in suspenser about a woman who finds minutes, hours and days slipping through her fingers

  
• July 24 2025
  Review

  Bring Her Back — Sally Hawkins shows her nasty side in Hitchcockian horror

  The British actress shatters her cosy image in the second feature from Australian twins Danny and Michael Philippou

  
• July 24 2025
  Review

  Dying — dysfunctional family drama is a magnificent anti-blockbuster

  Put down the Aperol spritz and go watch a brilliantly involving three-hour German film about an unwell couple and their withdrawn kids

  
• July 24 2025
  Fashion

  Five indie films to mine for summer dressing inspiration

  From Tilda Swinton’s Dior wardrobe in ‘A Bigger Splash’ to Adrien Brody’s pyjamas in ‘The Darjeeling Limited’, here are the best onscreen fashion cues

  
• July 24 2025
  FT CollectionsAI Exchange

  AI ‘a great opportunity for artists’ says head of Stable Diffusion owner

  The boss of StablityAI insists film industry fears about the impact of the popular image-generating model are misplaced

  
• July 23 2025
  ReviewNon-Fiction

  The Last Supper — how religion shaped pop culture in the 1980s

  From Madonna to Martin Scorsese, Paul Elie makes the case for spirituality’s influence on American musicians, writers and artists in the decade of materialism

  
• July 23 2025
  FT GlobetrotterCities on screen

  The films that made me fall in love with Los Angeles, twice

  For years, FT film critic Danny Leigh searched the city for traces of the Hollywood he’d grown up watching. Then he realised he’d been looking in all the wrong places

  
• July 22 2025
  Review

  The Fantastic Four: First Steps — Pedro Pascal tries to save a simpler world

  The star leads an Earth-rescuing team alongside Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in Marvel’s latest superhero offering

  
• July 18 2025
  Arts

  The chilling lessons of Hollywood’s Red Scare

  ‘Blacklisted’, a sobering exhibition in New York, revisits the paranoia and repression of McCarthyism