So proud to send my kid off to an early Halloween party in a Babadook costume. I feel that this is a film education win all round.

Also recommended for LFF animation heads, Endless Cookie www.screendaily.com/reviews/endl...

Animation fans at LFF: check out the gloriously batshit ChaO www.screendaily.com/reviews/chao...

Another Venice review: Ali Asgari’s cine-literate satire Divine Comedy. www.screendaily.com/reviews/divi...

Honeyland director Tamara Kotevska returns with the lovely, lyrical Tale of Silyan www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-...

Me on the Saudi drama Hijra www.screendaily.com/reviews/hijr...

My pick of the Venice Competion so far: Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice www.screendaily.com/reviews/no-o...

Me on Broken English www.screendaily.com/reviews/brok...

Motor City. Yikes www.screendaily.com/reviews/moto...

Me on The Testament Of Ann Lee www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-...

A few of my Screendaily Venice reviews: loved Kent Jones' Late Fame www.screendaily.com/reviews/late...

Also out this week - me on Friendship, Smurfs, Gold Songs and Four Letters of Love observer.co.uk/culture/film...

Not for everyone, certainly, but I am a fan of Athina Rachel Tsangari's Harvest, a heady, muddy story of the end of a community observer.co.uk/culture/film...

Gutted to read this. www.screendaily.com/news/frantie...

Camille Cottin and top tier child actors are the main reason to watch Out of Love www.screendaily.com/reviews/out-...

A few Karlovy Vary reviews: Paul Andrew Williams is back with Dragonfly, which takes a huge tonal swerve in the final act. Riseborough and Blethyn superb. I liked quite a bit. www.screendaily.com/reviews/drag...

So delighted to be back in Karlovy Vary this year, for one of my favourites on the festival circuit, for its buzzy atmosphere, great programming and enthusiastic embrace of street drinking,

Me on the turbo-charged midlife crisis that is F1: The Movie in The Observer observer.co.uk/culture/film...

Me on Ocean With David Attenborough: Late to this, but what an important, impassioned film. Essential viewing observer.co.uk/culture/film...

Me on the rather joyless Ballerina for oberver.co.uk observer.co.uk/culture/film...

Travelling via Geneva today I walked past a shop selling a chair made of stuff toy flamingos for something like 10 grand, and I feel like humanity may have crossed a significant taste rubicon.

Hard recommendation for the gorgeous The Ballad of Wallis Island, a lovely, bittersweet cardigan-clad treasure of a film. observer.co.uk/culture/film...

Me on Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning and the libido-shrivelling anti-frisson between Tom Cruise and his female co-stars. In The Observer observer.co.uk/culture/film...

If Jafar Panahi's unflinching and brave attack on the Iranian regime doesn't win at least something, I will eat my shoes. www.screendaily.com/reviews/it-w...

Another Cannes highlight for me: The Secret Agent is terrific. www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-...

Another Cannes review: Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir is an intriguing, fractured exploration of grief from the perspective of a child. www.screendaily.com/reviews/reno...

This is not a drill. My Father’s Shadow is a knock out debut from Akinola Davies Jr, starring Sope Dirisu. One of the best of Cannes so far. www.screendaily.com/reviews/my-f...

Another Cannes review: Miroirs No 3 is small scale Petzold, but it’s a beguiling, unexpectedly uplifting study of trauma and healing. www.screendaily.com/reviews/mirr...

More from Cannes: Harris Dickinson has the goods as a director; Frank Dillane is a knockout as the lead of Urchin www.screendaily.com/reviews/urch...

My @observer review of India Donaldson’s impressive debut, Good One, in cinemas now. observer.co.uk/culture/film...

Latest Cannes review: The Little Sister is a too thin to thin to make an impact in the main competition. www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-...

Oh, the embargo is up so I can say that I hated Ari Aster’s Eddington. A snide, small-minded and intellectually meagre offering, stretched out to interminable length.

Sirat. Holy shit. Oliver Laxe is not playing.

Quick reminder to people in Cannes: if you cut in front of me in a queue, I will simmer silently and nurse a deep and furious grudge against you until the end of time.

My review of Sound of Falling, in Cannes competition. A substantial, consequential work by a visionary director. Mascha Schilinski is a formidable talent. www.screendaily.com/reviews/soun...

My first Cannes review is of the very French opening film, Leave One Day www.screendaily.com/reviews/leav...

My Observer film of the week is The Surfer, in which Nic Cage delivers an all-timer of a Nic Cage performance. observer.co.uk/culture/film...

Crikey. Not sure how this would work in practice, if indeed it’s even possible. But I suspect that there will be utter carnage in the Cannes market next week. www.screendaily.com/news/donald-...

Me in @theobserveruk.bsky.social on Thunderbolts*, which is the most fun I have had with Marvel in a long time. observer.co.uk/culture/film...

Me on disappointing dog movies in the first edition of The Observer under the new ownership.

The dedicated fans of K-pop sensation BTS are the subject of the enjoyable doc Forever We Are Young www.screendaily.com/reviews/fore...

Another CPH:Dox highlight: The Helsinki Effect brings wit and energy to the stuffy subject of Cold War diplomacy. www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-...

My favourite in the main CPH:DOX competition: Sanatorium is a witty, elegantly composed account of a run down Soviet era health spa in Ukraine. www.screendaily.com/reviews/sana...

Another highlight from CPH:DOX - Lowland Kids, about America's first climate refugees, is a lyrical, intimate portrait of a family. Loved it. www.screendaily.com/reviews/lowl...

A few of my highlights from a flying visit to CPH:DOX. The Golden Spurtle, about the annual porridge competition in Carrbridge, Scotland, is a treasure of a film. Truly a documentary to nourish the soul. www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-...

I saw a lot of excellent things in Copenhagen during a flying visit to CPH:Dox (reviews to follow). But my favourite non-film discovery was the stage door of the Royal Danish Theatre, which shows what looks like an orgy in bronze relief.

At the opening of CPH:DOX and we have been handed watermelon cards to hold up during the prime minister’s address as a silent protest for a ceasefire in Palestine. Nicely done, Copenhagen.

My film of the week: Sister Midnight, the gloriously deranged feature debut from Karan Kandhari, featuring one of the performances of the year from Radhika Apte. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

"Bold, defiantly feral and immensely entertaining" SISTER MIDNIGHT is @wendyide.bsky.social's Film of the Week for The Observer! 💜 🌕🐐 In Cinemas Now 🎟️: www.altitude.film/sister-midnight #SisterMidnight

Todays gifts from the allotment foxes: 2 gardening gloves 1 sock 1 half eaten bra