For Sama: Essential viewing

One mother’s heartbreaking dispatch from Syria is political turmoil at its most personal.Read More

VOD film review: Rocketman

Taron Egerton is electric in an Elton John biopic bursting with invention and energy.Read More

Netflix UK film review: By the Grace of God

François Ozon’s timely drama about victims of abuse within the Catholic church is a powerful display of restrained, urgent filmmaking.Read More

VOD review: Non-Fiction

Director: Olivier Assayas Cast: Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne, Christa Théret, Nora Hamzawi Certificate: 15 Watch Non-Fiction online in the UK: Curzon Home Cinema

Arriving just before his new political thriller, Wasp Network, and just after his Kristen Stewart-led … Read More

Watchmen (HBO): Timely, unusual and thrilling TV

Damon Lindelof’s remix of Watchmen is compulsively unusual, excitingly ambitious and challengingly pertinent television.Read More

London Film Festival review: The Aeronauts, 37 Seconds, Monsoon, Jojo Rabbit

With Netflix, Amazon and MUBI debuting their latest exclusives and originals at the London Film Festival, we head to Leicester Square to catch up with some of the films on offer.

For more of our coverage from the 2019 London … Read More

UK TV review: Succession Season 2

Excruciatingly hilarious and flawlessly written, Jesse Armstrong’s biting satire is as gripping, funny and bleak as ever.Read More

Catch Up TV review: Celebrity Hunted S2, The Circle S2 Finale

What’s available on-demand on Freeview? Keep up-to-date with our weekly catch-up TV column, including reviews of shows on ITV Hub, new releases on All 4 and a guide to My5.

(For BBC TV reviews and round-ups, see our weekly Best … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Living With Yourself

Paul Rudd and Aisling Bea are fantastic in this ambitious, surprising thoughtful cloning comedy.Read More

Why you should catch up with Modern Love

John Carney’s warm anthology of love in New York is a sweet, superbly acted affair.Read More