Cinema

With the UK film release of Jack London’s novel Martin Eden, Caitlin Quinlan speaks to the director about the adaption's themes of class, mobility and hazardous individual success

The surreal rock opera, which opened this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is a gritty musical examining sex, power and family relations under intense glare of fame

In the group show ‘More Life’ at David Zwirner, the late filmmaker is celebrated for his contributions as a Black gay artist at the height of the AIDS pandemic  

In Awoye Timpo’s reimagining of Gunn’s play, a father and son grapple with visions of accomplishment that deny autonomy and identity

At a time of enforced distancing, Sharon Hayes’s Ricerche: two examines the intimacy of women’s American football teams

Brian Dillon on the television programme’s museum of images and memories 

Thomas Vinterberg’s latest film about a group of middle-aged men finding happiness through the habitual consumption of alcohol is sentimental and without complexity

In his new film, White Cube, the artist – again – perpetuates the very form of exploitation he is criticizing

Curtis’s new BBC series, Can’t Get You Out of My Head, depicts the repetitive bleakness of individualism, but how can we collectively envision an alternative?

Skaka King's film on the life and assassination of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton exceptionally examines the ever-present interplay between race and capital

The artist’s first feature film depicts a mother-daughter pair of grifters trying to stay afloat through financial recession 

The subject of retrospective at the London Short Film Festival, Videofreex’s Guerrilla TV tactics preceded the use of citizen-shot footage in contemporary media

Despite a brilliant performance by Carey Mulligan, the post-#MeToo thriller is an anti-climax 

The films and books that kept us afloat in a calamitous year

The film proposes Ancient Egypt as something far more alive than its ruins might suggest

Remi Weekes transposes the classic haunted house genre to a mouldering council flat inhabited by South Sudanese refugees

The five-film series is an epic, tender portrait of London’s West Indian community

The new Netflix documentary is a distraction from the drive to regulate tech companies, including Netflix itself

The filmmaker’s latest documentary, Swimming Out till the Sea Turns Blue, is an object study of the generations affected by industrialization

Luca Guadagnino’s new HBO series treats identity like an Instagram filter