Wild Mountain Thyme review – Emily Blunt in an awful Irish stew
This bucolic romance, co-starring bashful Jamie Dornan, is awash with whimsy, wonder – and laughable accents
Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse review – macho adventure plays by the book
Michael B Jordan stars as a Navy Seal out for revenge in this formulaic update of Clancy’s 1993 bestseller
Frances McDormand wins third best actress Oscar for Nomadland
McDormand Academy award for her role in Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, second only to Katharine Hepburn in number of best actress Oscars
Nomadland wins best picture Oscar as Chloé Zhao makes history with best director win
Film about retirees struggling to make ends meet takes the top prize at the Academy Awards, while Chloé Zhao becomes first woman of colour to take the directing prize
Monte Hellman, cult director and Reservoir Dogs executive producer, dies aged 91
Director of cult classics Two-Lane Blacktop and Cockfighter also directed Jack Nicholson and helped Quentin Tarantino with his feature debut
The Oak Room review – bar-room tales brew up a storm
A father’s legacy is in dispute when wayward son RJ Mitte decides to spar with the barman who guards the man’s ashes
Ride or Die review – bloody revenge and blossoming love in shocking Japanese thriller
A young woman hits the road with the killer of her abusive husband in Ryūichi Hiroki’s adaptation of cult manga series
Into the Labyrinth review – Dustin Hoffman psycho-thriller goes down a rabbit hole
The Hollywood star and Italian veteran Toni Servillo attempt to solve a mysterious abduction – a race hampered by never appearing in the same scene
Peter Bradshaw’s Baftas 2021 predictions: who will win – and who should
Our film critic picks his winners ahead of the big night – and the gems left off the nominations list altogether
‘It’s an utter myth’: how Nomadland exposes the cult of the western
From cowboys to ‘van-dwellers’, itinerant Americans are often portrayed as heroic lone wolves. Chloé Zhao’s film shows that the truth is more complicated and less glamorous
Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon review – genial 60s British wacky-space-racers
Dated but good-humoured, this 1967 adaptation includes all the era’s popular elements, from villain Terry-Thomas to penny-farthings in haystacks
Why did The Bonfire of the Vanities go from bestselling book to box-office bomb?
Thirty years on, why was Brian De Palma’s star-studded adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s novel such a flop?
Lonesome Dove author and Brokeback Mountain screenwriter Larry McMurtry dies at 84
The Pulitzer-winning author of novels including Terms of Endearment and The Last Picture Show, and Oscar-winning screenwriter, examined the American west
Bertrand Tavernier: a flesh-and-blood lion of French cinema
The director was a prolific and legendary figure, making films in a dizzying range of genres from crime to sci-fi, satire to jazz
Bertrand Tavernier, veteran French director of Round Midnight, dies aged 79
Acclaimed film-maker won a string of awards for a wide variety of films, including crime and film noir, as well as his celebrated film about a jazz musician