The celebrated filmmaker conjures up incredibly detailed jewellery box dioramas across his movies, from ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ to this week’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’. Clarisse Loughrey speaks to his longtime set decorator Anna Pinnock about bringing his meticulous dreamscapes to life

This ‘Indiana Jones’ rip-off, starring Natalie Portman and John Krasinski, is the perfect slice of Apple TV+ sludge to complain about

This pointless remake saps the original film of its humour, satire and queerness – and sands down the titular alien into a blander, more easily marketable CGI rascal

The ‘Gone Girl’ star and Matthew Rhys play a couple attempting to rescue their daughter along a dark, twisty countryside road

This (potentially final) entry in the long-running franchise is inherently absurd, but who cares?

The actor plays a desperate businessman left stranded in the sweltering Australian heat in this manic thriller, but the film’s themes struggle to align with his go-for-broke performance

Lily Gladstone, Bowen Yang and Star Wars actor Kelly Marie Tran lead this spirited remake that plays a bit more conventionally than its predecessor – but is also happy to relax into the warm embrace of its cast

Lily Gladstone, Bowen Yang and Star Wars actor Kelly Marie Tran lead this spirited remake that plays a bit more conventionally than its predecessor – but is also happy to relax into the warm embrace of its cast

The actor plays a desperate businessman left stranded in the sweltering Australian heat in this manic thriller, but the film’s themes struggle to align with his go-for-broke performance

This straight-to-streaming follow-up to the 2018 hit – which reunites stars Lively and Anna Kendrick – is noticeably less sharp, dark, and sexy than its predecessor

This James Gunn-style team-up movie – starring Florence Pugh and David Harbour – won’t single-handedly save the beleaguered MCU, but it boasts enough surface pleasures that future Marvel filmmakers should sit up and take note

While the 2016 original seemed to respect the neurodivergence of Ben Affleck’s savant superhero, this belated follow-up goes for easy jokes

While the 2016 original seemed to respect the neurodivergence of Ben Affleck’s savant superhero, this belated follow-up goes for easy jokes

Two decades since its release, Joe Wright’s lush interpretation of Jane Austen’s classic novel – starring an Oscar-nominated Keira Knightley – remains a swoon-worthy generational touchstone for millennials and Gen Z. Clarisse Loughrey salutes its legacy, its daring… and its infamous hand flex

Two decades since its release, Joe Wright’s lush interpretation of Jane Austen’s classic novel – starring an Oscar-nominated Keira Knightley – remains a swoon-worthy generational touchstone for millennials and Gen Z. Clarisse Loughrey salutes its legacy, its daring… and its infamous hand flex

Finally a film that asks ‘could an adorable flightless bird convince Alan Partridge to stand up to Argentina’s military dictatorship?’

‘Black Panther’ filmmaker Ryan Coogler directs Jordan in two roles in this inventive period thriller

It won’t be hard next year for Christopher Nolan to best this flawed reunion between stars Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche

This Disney thriller is shot like a car ad and fully leans into the ‘beautiful dead wife’ trope – yet somehow ‘The Amateur’ gets away with its cliches

Paul Rudd and the ‘Wednesday’ star play a father-daughter duo who run over a mythical creature, in this banal ‘eat the rich’ horror-comedy