Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies alongside the groundbreaking Tate exhibition. Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, both used landscape painting to reflect the changing world around th...

Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgård star in this Cannes Grand Prix winner, which reunites Joachim Trier with Reinsve, his lead from The Worst Person in the World. Two adult sisters navigate their emotional wounds and futures when their absentee father returns following the death of their mother. Trier tackles the journey of his characters with the gentle humour and a lived-in reality we’ve come ...

Like the warmth of a familiar melody, there’s a quiet electricity humming beneath its surface, guiding every beat of this tender tale. Based on a true story, the film follows Lightning & Thunder, two tribute performers whose devotion to the songs of Neil Diamond becomes both their anchor and their compass. As they navigate late-blooming romance, unexpected reinvention, and the awkward grace of se...

Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel features mesmerising performances by Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal. Their romantic affair begins in the woods, and their journey is characterised by the connection they have to the forest. Even when William strays off to the city to pursue his dreams, they always have a reason to come back to that same...

Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried bring a smash-hit thriller novel to life, about a young domestic servant whose employers hold a horrible secret. Stymied by her criminal record and reduced to living out of her car, Millie (Sweeney) jumps at the chance to work for a wealthy young family on Long Island. Living on site at their big, isolated home, she quickly bonds with her employers and the garde...

Timothée Chalamet is the one to beat as he goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness in this gripping, adrenaline-riddled solo debut from writer/director Josh Safdie. Playing ambitious table tennis prodigy Marty Mauser, he barrels through a world of eccentric rivals, high‑stakes matches and personal turmoil, grounded only by childhood friend Rachel (Odessa A'zion). The supporting cast, includ...

Martin Clunes balances his side turn in Wuthering Heights this month with another, very different rural English drama: an amiable West Country story of family brought together by real-ale-making. After years away, young Cal returns to his Somerset village and struggles to reconnect with his family, as their small pub threatens to disappear without large and immediate funds. To survive, they dec...

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi front a bold, vivid new take on Emily Brontë’s timelessly stormy romance. In the late 18th century, Catherine Earnshaw finds warmth growing up on the Yorkshire moors through her friend, the mysterious outcast Heathcliff, but they are soon torn apart when a well-heeled family takes her in. Heathcliff’s attachment, however, will not die easily – and as time and clas...

Celebrated actor-director duo Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler reunite for their fifth collaboration, a dark supernatural horror set in the Jim Crow-era American South. Ryan Coogler is one of the most adventurous big-budget directors working today. Having reinvented the Rocky franchise with Creed , and adapted Marvel’s Wakandan king to billion-dollar heights with Black Panther , Sinners is hi...

Sam Raimi is back and out for blood! Forty-five years after The Evil Dead hit the silver screen, Sam Raimi returns to his roots with a (relatively) low-budget, high-octane, blood-and-guts-galore dark comedy horror film - Send Help. It stars Rachel McAdams as you’ve never seen her before, as a disgruntled corporate strategist stranded on a desert island with her appalling boss (Dylan O’Brien)...

Claire Foy stars alongside Brendan Gleeson in Philippa Lowthorpe’s beautifully realised and emotionally charged adaptation of Helen MacDonald’s award-winning memoir. When Cambridge academic Helen’s father dies, the grief sends her spiralling into an abyss. In an effort to process her loss, she retreats from the human world to train a fearsome Northern goshawk. Foy gives an exceptional, career-bes...

Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio spearhead a raw, timely, and masterfully made thriller, about an ex-radical fighting to save his family. On the fringes of a small Californian town, Bob Ferguson struggles to stay upright for his teenaged daughter Willa, and the hole left by her mother and his failed revolutionary comrades. When she disappears as a wealthy white-supremacist army threat...

The second installation of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings comes to our big screen this month (the extended edition of course)! The Two Towers follows the continuing quest of Frodo (Elijah Wood) and the Fellowship to destroy the One Ring. Touched by that rare type of movie magic that strikes once a generation, the blockbuster-trilogy-hit is packed with extraordinary special effects, New Z...

Rose Byrne gives a mesmerising performance – earning her first-ever Golden Globe’s win – in Mary Bronstein’s high intensity exploration of the complexities of motherhood. Therapist Linda feels overwhelmed with the pressures of everyday life, particularly as she struggles to navigate her child’s mysterious illness with a singular lack of support from her absent husband. On the edge of exhaustion...

With a row of awards and a Best Picture Oscar nomination, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s fascinating historical thriller wins him a still bigger audience. In 1977 Recife, ex-professor Armando reunites with his son and in-laws under the pall of Brazil’s military dictatorship. A new job lets him search for traces of his censored past, while finding connection with fellow dissidents – but simultaneously,...

A flashy, tongue-in-cheek hyper-pop mockumentary, The Moment is Charli xcx’s creative reflection on her own meteoric success with brat. Directed and co-written by “360” music video director Aidan Zamiri in his feature debut, the film has a stylishly effortless rhythm and a uniquely self-aware, ironic sense of humour. Charli xcx plays an exaggeratedly manic version of herself, surrounded by a ca...

By order of the Peaky Blinders: the self-exiled king (Cillian Murphy) shall face his most explosive reckoning yet in this epic feature, from series creator Steven Knight. Four years after we said goodbye to the Shelby clan in the series finale of Peaky Blinders, Tommy Shelby and his crew of Birmingham mobsters are returning in a new feature film. Joining the line up of familiar faces are Rebecc...

The Coen Brothers’ hallowed comedy returns to The Odyssey - and we’ll be serving White Russian cocktails at the bar once more! The serene, work-free life of “The Dude” is upended when thugs defile his beloved rug, just as an identically named millionaire’s wife goes missing. With this, he is thrown into an unbelievably bizarre criminal underworld, all while fighting to win the local bowling champ...

The Mediator Between the Head and the Hands Must Be the Heart. In an urban dystopia stylised with Art Deco futurist aesthetics, Freder and Maria seek to deconstruct the vast class divides in their city. Perhaps the most well-remembered of the Weimar period, the film was produced during a period of vast social change, hyperinflation, and the emergence of new ideologies in present-day Germany. ...