Ian McKellan gives a delicious performance as a catty gay theatre critic in 1930s London. Based on Anthony Quinn’s novel Curtain Call, Jimmy Erskine (McKellen) is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking down any actor who fails to meet his standards. His newspaper’s new owner, David Brooke (Mark Strong), stands for pat...

Prepare yourself for a Bad Romance as Joaquin Phoenix reprises his Oscar-winning role as the titular deranged villain the Joker opposite Lady Gaga as the queen of chaos Harley Quinn. The inevitable sequel picks up with Arthur in jail, heavily medicated and jovially bullied by the chief prison guard, played with whistling nonchalance by Brendan Gleeson. A patient in a neighbouring psychiatric ward...

It is 1985, in the run-up to Christmas in a small town in County Wexford, Ireland, Small Things Like These stars Cillian Murphy as Bill Furlong, a coal merchant supporting his wife and five daughters. While delivering coal to a local convent one morning, Bill uncovers a disturbing secret that forces him to confront the dark realities of the town, dominated by the Catholic Church, and his own past...

A Faustian bargain lies at the heart of Ali Abbasi’s stunningly crafted dramatisation of Donald Trump’s early career in New York. Sebastian Stan delivers a career-best performance as Trump, capturing his ambition and charm, while Jeremy Strong (Succession) plays Cohn as a sinister, fear-mongering figure. Cohn, once a key character in Angels in America, becomes Trump’s mentor, guiding him as he se...

The Wild Robot is a captivating and emotional film that skillfully combines adventure, heart, and thoughtful commentary on technology's relationship with nature. Following the robot Rozzum 7134 (“Roz” for short), this tale of survival and discovery begins when she becomes the unexpected protector to an orphaned gosling, The story’s simple yet powerful themes resonate with audiences of all ages, ...

Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2 is a tense legal drama that follows Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult), a juror in a high-stakes murder trial, who faces a moral dilemma when he realises he may have played a role in the victim’s death. As the trial unfolds, Kemp grapples with the weight of his secret, torn between delivering justice for the accused and confessing his own potential guilt. With each new testimo...

National Theatre Live present the Empire Street Production of Prima Facie written by Suzie Miller directed by Justin Martin Jodie Comer’s (The Bikeriders, Killing Eve) Olivier and Tony Award-winning performance in Suzie Miller’s gripping one-woman play returns to cinemas. Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working-class origins to be at the top of her...

Steve McQueen’s visually stunning Blitz offers a poignant tapestry of British life during World War II. Saoirse Ronan stars as Rita, an East End mother who, fearing for her son George’s (Elliott Heffernan) safety during nightly air raids, makes the painful decision to send him to the countryside. However, George soon leaves the train, determined to return home to Stepney Green. As he navigates wa...

Sean Baker’s Anora, winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, features a star-making performance from Mikey Madison. Baker (The Florida Project, Red Rocket) tells a modern-day Cinderella story about Ani, a Brooklyn sex worker, who meets Vanya, the spoiled son of a Russian oligarch. He offers her a life of wealth and glamour, but their whirlwind marriage faces trouble when Vanya’s parents fly to New Yor...

Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank, American Honey) masterfully blends gritty, coming-of-age storytelling steeped with magical realism, infusing the film with a raw connection to nature. In Arnold’s striking Kent-set tale, Bailey (Nykiya Adams), a 12-year-old girl, experiences a shift in her fractured home life when she meets a mysterious stranger searching for his family. Bailey feels trapped in her Grave...

Clint Eastwood’s icon-making turn as the laconic, tweed-wearing, and ruthlessly committed police officer arrives at the Odyssey. San Francisco’s authorities are left helpless when a mysterious, unpredictable serial killer charges them hundreds of thousands of dollars to make him stop – unless misanthropic Inspector Harry Callahan can find him first. Before long, the killer’s machinations and the ...

Piece by Piece is a vibrant biographical chronicle of Pharrell Williams' life through LEGO animation. Directed by Oscar-winner Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet from Stardom, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?), the film captures Pharrell’s creative journey from his Virginia Beach childhood to his rise as an international superstar. Using LEGO as a metaphor for Pharrell's boundless creativity, the documentary ...

Written and directed by celebrated playwright Conor McPherson and featuring Tony Award-winning orchestrations by Simon Hale, Girl From The North Country reimagines 20 legendary songs of Bob Dylan as they’ve never been heard before, including “Forever Young,” “All Along The Watchtower,” “Hurricane,” and “Like A Rolling Stone.” It’s 1934 in Duluth, Minnesota. We meet a group of wayward travellers ...

Kate Winslet brings typical depth and gravitas to the life of war photographer Lee Miller, a passion project for her, realised after almost a decade in the making. After glamorous careers in New York as a model and Paris as a photographer, Lee is suddenly confronted with the ravages of WWII in Blitz-torn London, and abandons her refined life to show them to America. In this, she finds new strengt...

Sebastian Stan delivers his best performance yet in Aaron Schimberg’s surreal, layered tragicomedy, about an actor freed from a “deformed” face but trapped by his own character. Living with neurofibromatosis and crippling insecurity, Edward jumps at a treatment that makes him conventionally attractive but cannot resist auditioning when his beloved neighbour writes a play about him. While reliving...

Ridley Scott follows up his modern epic masterpiece with a similarly gigantic, gripping, and impeccably made story of a broken man taking on the Roman Empire. Decades after Maximus restored order to Ancient Rome, his son Lucius lives peacefully away from it in North Africa with his family – only for history to repeat itself when its new rulers invade, kill his family, and enslave him. Forced to f...

Director Chris Columbus brings us one of the most beloved family Christmas films of all time. When 8-year-old Kevin McCallister, acts up the night before a family Christmas vacation to Paris, he is sent up to sleep in the attic by his mother. The next morning Kevin wakes to an empty house believing his wish for his family to disappear has come true. While initially enjoying time by himself, he...

Celebrate the holiday season with André Rieu's dazzling Christmas Concert, Gold and Silver, exclusively in cinemas! This magical event embodies the festive spirit of Christmas, bringing joy, warmth, and sparkle to the big screen. Get ready to be transported to the wondrous world of enchanting glamour that is André's Winter wonderland! Under the sparkle of 150 chandeliers and 50 Venetian candelabr...

Stanley Kubrick’s morbidly brilliant, still-hilarious satire on the Cold War returns to the Odyssey for its 60th anniversary. At the height of political tension between America and the USSR, mad US general Jack D. Ripper orders a nuclear attack on Russia, vowing to stop it from corrupting America’s “vital bodily fluids”. The world’s leaders and military scramble to stop this from starting a chain...