Movies
- TikTok craze for dressing up linked to unruly behaviour among young people at screenings
- 2 out of 5 stars.Telling five Covid-related stories, this platitudinous urban-interconnection drama offers lectures on virtue and self-sacrifice and feels like state propaganda
- 3 out of 5 stars.
Rubikon review – toxic fog takes over in nifty multilingual sci-fi
3 out of 5 stars.Survivors of an environmental catastrophe battle to save Planet Earth from a space station in this tense drama
Playground – kid’s-eye-view nightmare of schoolyard bullying
4 out of 5 stars.
Video & audio
- For the third episode of season three of Comfort Eating, Grace welcomes the Ridley Road, Ray Donovan and Sherlock actor Eddie Marsan round to hers
What If the Future Never Happened is a 30-minute genre-bending biopic by Daniel Johns, inspired by his life before he was catapulted to fame as a teenager with his group Silverchair
A surgeon who has testified in the defamation trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard says Depp's claim that he lost the tip of his finger during a domestic fight with Heard could not have happened in the way Depp recounted
- In this week’s episode, Marina Hyde on Beergate and Keir Starmer’s gamble, Britpop legend Jarvis Cocker discusses his new memoir, comedian Sofie Hagen on the hard slog to become an influencer, and Xan Brooks dissects the Cannes film festival as it celebrates its 75th birthday
- Meet three Australian women who are pushing back on the expectations and stereotypes so often placed on them
- In Guardian Australia’s weekly podcast about internet culture, JR Hennessy joins Alyx Gorman and Michael Sun to discuss the Will Smith/Chris Rock controversy and the arrival of short kings
- Rightwing pundits have tried to claim the sequel’s box office success as their success but there are enough examples to show that this isn’t the case
- For millions, Mandy Moore is best known for playing Rebecca in the TV hit This Is Us. But before that she was a teen queen of pop. As the series comes to an end, she explains why she’s going back to music
- The comedian on his Sundance hit film about a homemade robot, why Ricky Gervais persuaded him to give up his day job, and being a hopeless romantic
Regulars
- 3 out of 5 stars.
Mark Kermode's film of the weekNitram review – a harrowing portrait of Australia’s most deadly mass shooter
3 out of 5 stars.Based on the true story of a lone gunman who killed 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania, in 1996, Justin Kurzel’s drama is a complex study of a lethal misfit - Director Patty Jenkins recently condemned films produced by streamers as “fake movies”, but the evolution has opened doors for diversity
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3 out of 5 stars.