This year, the international category was the focus of much speculation; in addition to the obviously intense competition for the final five slots, there was a sense that this year's crop could break out into other categories. And so it came to pass: Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident, Kleber…

With two months still to go, the Oscars are still far from a done deal, but while pundits nitpick about Best Picture and Director, a thornier decision will be to decide which is the best cast of the 10 films on the Oscar shortlist. Amazingly, this is the first time the category has been put to the…

When the London Critics Circle shortlisted Delroy Lindo as one of their five nominees for Best Supporting Actor this year, for his part as Delta Slim in Ryan Coogler's Sinners, it's possible but unlikely that every last one of them knew that they were, essentially, voting for a local. It's a measure…

"No Children Beyond This Point" says the sign in the dilapidated water park, the shabby but perfect place to start the fourth instalment of the 28 Days franchise. Directed by Nia DaCosta, who more than earned her horror spurs with the 2021 remake of Candyman, 28 Days Later: The Bone Temple certainly…

Rose Byrne's win at the Golden Globes on Sunday night was a victory for more than just her, writer-director Mary Bronstein, and the film they made together, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. In a year dominated by films in which women largely took a supporting role while the men got on with the important…

Sunrises and sunsets are an important part of Richard Linklater's filmography, forming the backdrop of two romantic films he made with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in 1995 and 2004 respectively. The same concept could be said to apply to the two films the director premiered in 2025. For Cannes, he…

What would you do? The fourth wall is tentative at the best of times in the films of Ondi Timoner — the clue is in the title of her production company, Interloper, under which guise she has smuggled her viewers into such hermetic communities as the friendship between rival rock bands The Brian…

Deadline’s film critics Pete Hammond and Damon Wise reveal their Top 10 films of 2025, a list strewn with Oscar contenders and a few films that flew under the radar. To whittle so many films down to just 10 meant that plenty of favorites hit the cutting-room floor. Missing the final edit by a…

If Charlie Polinger's mother hadn't asked him to clear out his childhood bedroom after lockdown, his debut feature, The Plague, might never have existed "I was going through all my old stuff," he recalls, "and I found these journals from a summer when I was at an all-boys sports camp. I had written…

While most of the splashy fall premieres are already starting to lose momentum, Spain's Oscar submission — Sirāt, by Oliver Laxe — is proving to have legs as the year's most impressive word-of-mouth hit. Since picking up four awards in Cannes, including the fest's official Jury Prize as well as a…

Agnieszka Holland is one of the more seasoned directors vying for this year's Best International Feature Oscar. But then, she's always been ahead of the curve: two years before Titanic, she cast a rising actor called Leonardo DiCaprio as French symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud in her 1995 film Total Ecli…

Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos burst onto the international scene in 2009 with his third feature, Dogtooth, a jet-black comedy about a messed-up family that heralded a whole series of films christened Weird Wave by the startled media. After the even more cryptic Alps, Lanthimos branched out into the…