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Tuesday, 7 March, 2023

ReviewUpstream
The return of The Mandalorian and Star Wars’ recycling problem
Season 3 of the streaming series finds its hero on a quest to regain status but the franchise may be relying too heavily on comebacks
Thursday, 26 January, 2023

The Oscars 2023: all you need to know
Darren Aronofsky on directing Brendan Fraser in The Whale: ‘When actors start, they all want to cry’
The film-maker talks frankly about making work that doesn’t spare the feelings of performers or audiences
Friday, 13 January, 2023

The Weekend Essay
Can Netflix’s Break Point revitalise tennis?
As the sport’s most decorated players bow out, a behind-the-scenes docuseries aims to bring the game to a new generation
Thursday, 5 January, 2023

ReviewFilm
Alcarràs review — bruised, bucolic film has notes of bitterness
A family of peach growers are uprooted in Carla Simón’s second feature
Thursday, 5 January, 2023

ReviewFilm
Antonio Banderas is a cashmere-smooth Miami hitman in The Enforcer — film review
The film’s plotline has a string of previous owners but the star rises above his tawdry surroundings
Friday, 16 December, 2022

FT Weekend podcast27 min listen
Tamagotchis and reality TV: 2023 cultural predictions
Lilah and FT Magazine editor Matt Vella discuss listeners’ forecasts for next year. Then, FT Weekend editors share their own
Friday, 2 December, 2022

Film
International Film Festival of India ranges from noisy bravado to quiet delights
The event in Goa showed the scope of the country’s cinema, with brash blockbusters, delicate dramas and controversial retellings of history
Friday, 11 November, 2022

InterviewFilm
Director Charlotte Wells on her debut Aftersun — the most lauded British film of the year
The intensely personal feature about a father and daughter holidaying in Turkey wowed Cannes and is now reaping awards nominations
Monday, 5 September, 2022

Venice Film Festival 2022
The Banshees of Inisherin — Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell star in buddy break-up film
Martin McDonagh’s blackly comic feature sets a fracturing friendship against Ireland’s tumultuous history
Monday, 5 September, 2022

Venice Film Festival 2022
The Whale review — Brendan Fraser makes a splash in Darren Aronofsky’s obesity drama
Fraser shines, in a grotesquely large fat-suit, in the pitiless yet empathetic film
Monday, 5 September, 2022

Venice Film Festival 2022
Five stars for opioid epidemic documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Laura Poitras’s film is both a biography of artist Nan Goldin and an indictment of the Sackler family
Friday, 2 September, 2022

Venice Film Festival 2022
Venice Film Festival review — Bones and All shows sympathy for the diabolical
Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet star as cannibals on a road trip through America in Luca Guadagnino’s uncannily timed film
Friday, 2 September, 2022

Venice Film Festival 2022
Venice Film Festival review — Bardo is a stream of consciousness from Alejandro G Iñárritu
This sprawling, deeply personal film tips into self-indulgence, though there are powerful moments
Thursday, 1 September, 2022

The best of Cannes Film Festival 2022
Three Thousand Years of Longing — Idris Elba’s genie casts a spell on Tilda Swinton
An uptight academic is swept away in George Miller’s kaleidoscopic and warm-hearted fantasy epic
Thursday, 1 September, 2022

Venice Film Festival 2022
Cate Blanchett wields the baton in Todd Field’s Tár
Set in the rarefied world of classical music, the film follows a tightly wound conductor who dishes out plenty of stick
Wednesday, 31 August, 2022

Venice Film Festival 2022
White Noise — Noah Baumbach reworks Don DeLillo as post-Covid satire
The Venice Film Festival opens with Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig in a black comedy about an ‘airborne toxic event’
Thursday, 18 August, 2022

ReviewFilm
My Old School — the strange tale of a 30-year-old posing as a teenage student
Captivating documentary starring Alan Cumming recounts the real story of a Scotsman who infiltrated his alma mater
Thursday, 21 July, 2022

InterviewFilm
Olivier Assayas and Alicia Vikander on their self-aware showbiz satire Irma Vep
Is it a movie, a series, a remake? The director and star discuss their multi-layered new work and the ‘crisis’ facing cinema
Wednesday, 13 July, 2022

ReviewFilm
McEnroe — documentary probes the mind of a volatile sporting great
How did tennis’s most famous hothead go from scandalising the tennis world to being revered by it?
Friday, 8 July, 2022

Travel
Nail it like Nadal: the ultimate tennis holiday — coached by Rafa’s mentor
At the Sani Resort in Greece, amateur players can train under the watchful eye of Toni Nadal, the star’s uncle and former coach
Saturday, 2 July, 2022

FT GlobetrotterThe joy of tennis
Levelling up with three top London tennis coaches
An enthusiastic club player seeks out professional help to smooth out the kinks in his game
Monday, 30 May, 2022

Film
Cannes divides opinion with Palme d’Or winner Triangle of Sadness
Ruben Östlund is awarded the top prize for the second time in five years for a comedy that takes aim at privilege and greed
Wednesday, 25 May, 2022

The best of Cannes Film Festival 2022
Cannes review quick bites: Dardennes’ migration drama Tori and Lokita
Also reviewed: Park Chan-wook’s satisfying noir Decision to Leave
Tuesday, 24 May, 2022

The best of Cannes Film Festival 2022
Crimes of the Future, Cannes review — David Cronenberg returns to his body-horror roots
Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart star in the tale of a man whose party trick is having his organs cut out
Monday, 23 May, 2022

The best of Cannes Film Festival 2022
Five stars for Aftersun at Cannes — a subtle summer marvel
‘Normal People’ star Paul Mescal charms in a graceful, sun-kissed story about a father and a daughter