Alone in Berlin: the heroism of quiet resistance

Our pick of the films of 2019

Frozen II is a bit lukewarm

‘Marriage Story’: Gut-wrenching, but compassionate

‘Based on an actual lie’

The Irishman is a triumph for its director and actors

Terminator’s dark fate is to have reached the end of the road

‘Ride Like a Girl’: Celebrating family, faith and fortitude

Martin Scorsese says superhero movies are ‘not cinema’. Is he right?

Can ‘Ne Zha’, a child demon with $1b at the box office, teach Chinese how to raise good kids?

‘Joker’: a descent into madness in Gotham City

‘Chernobyl’: how mass mobilizations saved Europe and doomed the Soviet Union

‘Ad Astra’: out to the stars, into the heart

‘Overcomer’: broken lives beating the odds with faith

‘Good Boys’: a beginner’s guide to child exploitation

‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ —definitely Tarantino, and definitely not his best

Netflix and the streaming revolution: opportunities and threats in TV drama

Reclaiming our common humanity in the art of classic movie storytelling

For Spider-Man, far from home, it’s time to man up

Avengers: Endgame and the relentless march of Hollywood franchise movies

Godzilla meets the Bible

Dark Phoenix, a disappointing farewell to the X-Men franchise

A Toy Story that adults will enjoy

‘Unplanned’ - A sympathetic and honest look at the abortion industry

Missing Link: a charming adventure animation

Why Godzilla is the perfect monster for our age of environmental anxiety

The live-action ‘Aladdin’ is a winner from Disney

Do we really need PC Disney classics?

Is ‘Avengers’ America’s Iliad?

Not for the squeamish: ‘Game of Thrones’ approaches its finale

‘Stan & Ollie’

‘Tolkien’: The early life of a creative genius on the big screen

Happy International Day, Batman!

‘Avengers: Endgame’—confusing but spectacular

Avengers: Endgame exploits time travel and quantum mechanics

‘Unplanned’ shows side of the abortion debate few audiences get to see

The Matrix 20 years on: how a sci-fi film tackled big philosophical questions

Vice: a corrosive portrait of American politics

The Wandering Earth: why you need to see China’s latest sci-fi blockbuster

Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series to be set in the Second Age

The Old Man & The Gun

At Eternity’s Gate

Aquaman

Mary Queen of Scots: don’t worry about movie accuracy, historians can’t agree either

Our pick of the films of 2018

Creed II, Rocky and fatherhood

Disney’s Nutcracker: the latest movie to explore the dark side of fairy tales

The hell of drug addiction

First Man: a new vision of the Apollo 11 mission to set foot on the Moon

Horror films and holy water: a winning formula

Black 47: Ireland’s Great Hunger comes to the big screen

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