6 h. ago One Battle After Another review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrillingly helter

Anderson updates Thomas Pynchon for the era of Ice roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reactionOne of the great creative bromances has flowered again: Paul Thomas Anderson and Thomas Pynchon. Having adapted Pynchon’s Inherent Vice for the screen in 2015, Anderson has now taken a freer rein with his 1990 novel Vineland, creating a bizarre action thriller driven by pulpy comic-book energy and transformed political indignation, keeping his pedal at all times welded to the metal.It’s a riff on the now recognisable Anderson-Pynchonian idea of counterculture and counter-revolution, absorbing the paranoid style of American politics into a screwball farcical resistance, with a jolting, jangling, nerve-shredding score by Jonny Greenwood. It’s partly a freaky-Freudian diagnosis of father-daughter dysfunction – juxtaposed with the separation of migrant children and parents at the US-Mexico border – and a very serious, relevant response to the U...

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6 h. ago One Battle After Another review – Leonardo DiCaprio clowns his way through a ferocious American masterpiece

Paul Thomas Anderson has directed a swaggering, funny and timely action epic, where momentum never lets up and supporting actors Sean Penn and Teyana Taylor steal the show

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6 h. ago One Battle After Another review: Leonardo DiCaprio romps through 2025's coolest film

Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn, Leonardo DiCaprio and many more are a riotous, chaotic blast in yet another Paul Thomas Anderson masterwork

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26 h. ago Teyana Taylor says ‘it’s no time to be shy’ when working with Leonardo DiCaprio

The 34-year-old stars alongside the Oscar winner in One Battle After Another.

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7 d. ago Morgan Rogers revels in Paul Gascoigne comparison after starring in central England role

The Aston Villa midfielder has vowed to keep getting ‘fans off their seats’ after impressing in the 5-0 thrashing of Serbia

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9 d. ago Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle review – battle anime brings the visual flair

In the first of a film trilogy, teenage Tanjiro seeks vengeance for his murdered family in what is a great taste of things to comeThe first part of a trilogy that will conclude the massively popular anime series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, this latest smash hit from Ufotable, directed by Haruo Sotozaki, is a spectacular treat. For those new to the franchise, the story is set during a mythical imagining of the Taisho era, where hordes of carnivorous demons descend on innocent civilians. Fighting in the name of his massacred family and a sister infected with demon blood, teenage protagonist Tanjiro Kamado joins the Demon Slayer Corps, determined to wipe these ruthless beasts off the Earth. The film picks up from a thrilling cliffhanger of the fourth season, where Tanjiro and his fellow comrades are thrust into the lair of the demon-in-chief, the cunning and all-powerful Muzan Kibutsuji.Much of the film is structured around various battles between the series regulars and their swor...

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1 week ago Winter of the Crow review – Lesley Manville commands cold war thriller

Toronto film festival: the Oscar nominee makes for a compelling heroine in a solid and intermittently suspenseful tale of a professor stuck in a nightmareThe specific brilliance of Lesley Manville had been on display for those who knew where to look long before her first Oscar nomination. She’d been part of the enviable Mike Leigh troupe (her first nomination should have been for Another Year) and a permanent small-screen fixture, even if the size of her roles hadn’t correlated to the size of her talent. But after Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson’s singular magnum opus, Manville has enjoyed a spectacular boom, a long-deserved reward for her and an even bigger one for those of us watching.The role came as she was entering her 60s, a period that can often leave female actors with grimly limited options, but she’s bucked the trend, not just through the sheer amount of work she’s found but also the unusual variety. She’s avoided the post-Book Club subgenre of mostly patronising come...

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1 week ago Christy review – Sydney Sweeney fights a losing battle in cliched boxing biopic

Toronto film festival: The rising star makes for a convincing boxer inside the ring in David Michôd’s by-the-numbers drama but flounders when outsideEven before Sydney Sweeney became better known for being in the centre of an increasingly absurd culture war, the unavoidable campaign to make her Hollywood’s Next Big Thing was showing signs of fatigue. The Euphoria grad, who gave a resonant performance in Reality, scored a sleeper hit with glossed up romcom Anyone But You but audiences were more impressed than critics, including myself (I found her performance strangely stilted). There was little interest from either side in her nun horror Immaculate, and earlier this summer her incredulously plotted Apple movie Echo Valley went the way of many Apple movies (no one knows it exists).Post-thinkpieces, two of her festival duds (Eden and Americana) disappeared at the box office and she now arrives at Toronto in need of a win. And what better way to achieve that by going for an old-fashion...

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2 w. ago ‘I want to earn my stripes’: Cooper Hoffman on ambition, anxiety, and following in his dad’s footsteps

He was never meant to be an actor – wary of comparisons with his late father Philip Seymour Hoffman. Now a rising star, he talks about growing up, embracing discomfort and forging his own pathWhen Cooper Hoffman was in his teens, he didn’t have any grand plans for the future, though there was one thing he knew for sure: he did not want to be an actor. Why? “I didn’t want to do it because my dad did it so well, and it felt like I’d be going up against him. It would feel like I was inherently stepping into something competitive.”Given Hoffman’s father is Philip Seymour Hoffman, Oscar-winning star of Boogie Nights, Almost Famous, The Master and Capote, you can see why he would feel that way. But then Paul Thomas Anderson, the Boogie Nights director who is a friend of the family, and whose children Cooper played with when he was growing up, asked him if he would read for a part. It was the lead in the 2021 film Licorice Pizza, about a teenage boy smitten with a woman in her mid-20s. It ...

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2 w. ago The Roses REVIEW: This very British battle of the sexes is devilishly good fun, writes LARUSHKA IVAN

Based, like the original, on the novel by Warren Adler, it sees two Brits - a successful architect called Theo (Cumberbatch) and a rising chef called Ivy (Colman) - fall in love at first sight.

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3 w. ago Spinal Tap II, Julia Roberts and Paul Thomas Anderson: the best films of autumn 2025

An original Alan Bennett screenplay, a classy star turn for George Clooney and a Bruce Springsteen biopic are all on their way to the big screen• See the rest of our unmissable autumn arts preview picks hereAll release dates are UK and subject to changeComic book author and novelist Charlie Huston adapts his own cult bestseller of the same title, Darren Aronofsky directs – and this comedy certainly signals a shift in tone after his last movie, body-image tragedy The Whale. Austin Butler stars as ex-baseball-player Hank Thompson who gets mixed up in the seedy underbelly of crime in 90s New York. • 29 August Continue reading...

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3 w. ago King & Conqueror review – Battle of Hastings drama is almost unwatchably dark

Viewers will literally struggle to see what’s going on in this overripe historical drama starring James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

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3 w. ago Bayern Munich star slammed over £13m transfer and accused of 'lacking courage'

Bayern Munich have lost a number of forward players this summer, including Leroy Sane, Kingsley Coman and Thomas Muller, but youngster Paul Wanner has decided to leave for PSV rather than compete for a first team spot

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