This portrait of a multi-ethnic comic troupe could do with more unpicking, but its reflections on the grind of war, life on the road and the reactive nature of comedy are insightful It must …
Chloé Zhao's film version of Maggie O'Farrell's myth-making novel powerfully reimagines the agonising loss of a child as the source of Hamlet's grand stage drama 'The joys of parents are se…
Genteel manners of first world war story about repressed passion delivered with surprising sexual candour Alan Bennett's new film, directed by Nicholas Hytner, is a quiet and consistent plea…
This indulgent but madly watchable documentary showcases Minnelli's tremendous star wattage alongside the tragedy of a life lived in the full glare of show business To watch this indulgent b…
With bare-faced cheek, this bardless take replaces all the original language with olden-days-effect prose " adding singing, dancing and a pointlessly starry cast Director and former stage ac…
In a hilarious and surreal documentary, two out-of-work actors decide to stage the tragedy within Los Santos with dreamlike and fascinating results A brilliant idea, brilliantly executed; hi…
Stephen Schwartz's musical prequel has been brought to the big screen, with Erivo's charismatic Elphaba exerting a planetary pull over a star-studded cast As Kermit the Frog and the Hulk dis…
Before she reached a new level of celebrity in the 21st century, Smith had a remarkable big-screen career, channelling her stage presence into the camera whether as Jean Brodie or her tragic…
Dupieux's melancholic comedy sees a disillusioned audience member pull a gun before demanding a word processor to write the actors a better play Quentin Dupieux is one of the vanishingly sma…
Vivid portrait of the great playwright of inertia points up the contrast with his real-life romantic entanglements and daring work for the French resistance Director James Marsh has boldly, …
Minnelli brings the razzle dazzle to a Berlin determined to ignore the gathering storm in this cinematic masterpiece 'Still think you can control them?" Dizzied by their divinely decadent me…
Jamila Wignot's documentary about choreographer Alvin Ailey has absorbing testimonies and a look at his secret private life Jamila Wignot's documentary is a tribute to the work of the Africa…
The writer-director talks about his new film, co-starring Denzel Washington, and reveals how it felt to work without his brother, Ethan, for the first time in nearly 40 years It might be the…
Andrew Garfield plays Rent composer Jonathan Larson in Miranda's sugar rush of showbiz highs and lows Lin-Manuel Miranda gives us an unashamed sugar rush of showbiz rapture and showbiz solem…
Writers and artists including RóisÃn Murphy, Tiffany Calver and Sigala on the art that transports them to the dancefloor during lockdown There have been many notable nightclubs in film…
It mesmerised Proust, terrified Homer Simpson and gave us the Hunchback " Guardian critics celebrate Paris's gothic masterpiece at the heart of the modern imagination As Notre Dame Cathedral…
With his weaponised dialogue and hypnotic macho characters, no writer has so relentlessly confronted the explosive issues of our times. But theatre and Hollywood are changing. As he hits 70,…
Peake is hypnotically belligerent as an ambitious club performer trampling over prejudice and sticky carpets on the 1970s comedy circuitMaxine Peake dominates the screen as producer and star…
This engaging documentary focuses on a couple who once dazzled audiences with their intimate dance routines but whose off-stage love turned to heartbreak The return of what is now known as S…
It's impossible to get tickets to see Tom Hiddleston. But if the play's being staged to raise funds for Rada, why not be less elitist, and broadcast it in cinemas?The arts world is facing a …
A Baltimore girls high-school dance team boost their self-esteem while they're busting moves in this heartfelt, feelgood documentary Stepping is a vivid and passionate style of street dance …
Dancer Sergei Polunin gets a respectful and useful documentary, but we need a deeper investigation into this amazing dancer, hamstrung by his own demonsThis is a sympathetic, serviceable but…
How better to make sense of this turbulent year than through the art and literature it has produced? Our critics choose the works that sum up the last 12 monthsIf there is one film that hold…
This documentary about a new director's tenure at the Paris Opera Ballet purports to tell all but offers no real insightsNot so much a documentary, more a sleek two-hour commercial for itsel…
At the prompting of Guardian readers, film critic Peter Bradshaw revisits Richard Brooks's 1958 adaptation, which delivers a homosexual hero paralysed with self-hatredI haven't seen Sarah Es…