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Fri 25 Sept 2026

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The biggest weekend of cinema ever

Dunesday: will this be Barbenheimer on steroids?

December’s joint release of Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday could break all records
In character as Chani, she stands in a desertscape and stares intently into the distance
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Picks of the week

Top: Olivia Wilde in The Invite, Anne Hathaway in The Odyssey Bottom: Inde Navarrette in Obsession, Andrew Scott in Elsinore
This year’s Oscars race
Greek epics, gory obsessions and awkward invites
black and white photo of Boris Karloff and his daughter Sara sitting together
Sara Karloff on reviving Frankenstein, 95 years on
My dad was a monster!
MONACO-ARTS-TELEVISION-FESTIVALBritish actor John Hannah poses during a photocall as part of the 65th Monte-Carlo Television Festival in the principality of Monaco on June 14, 2026.
‘I get lost going to the bathroom’
John Hannah on world travel, stealing props and being ‘the Scottish Eminem’
Owen Wilson and Alan Ritchsonride a bicycle, carrying a cooler labeled "human organ in transit"
Heart of the action
Organ couriers are cinema’s new heroes
Director Billy Wilder, in glasses and a flat cap, leans on a wall, hand on hip
How Billy Wilder conquered Hollywood
‘I’m a writer but then nobody’s perfect’
A shirtless man sits inside a cluttered room, glancing back through an open doorway. Pepa Lubojacki’s brother in If Pigeons Turned to Gold.
‘Addiction is not only caused by weak will’
A talking pigeon on Czechia's alcohol problem
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Peter Bradshaw's film of the week

Sense and Sensibility

Daisy Edgar-Jones leads sober-minded next-gen do-over of Austen romcom

★★★☆☆
This fresh take on a beloved classic is not to be confused with Ang Lee’s
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles in Sense and Sensibility.
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This week's reviews

A woman with dark hair standing in dim light with a purply background
Her Private Hell
Nicolas Winding Refn’s shapeshifting fantasia is a dreamy swirl of strangeness
★★★★☆
A woman aims a rifle while standing through a car door opening, surrounded by dust or smoke. K-megastar Jung Ho-yeon in Hope.
Hope
Non-stop gonzo alien battling is top-quality entertainment
★★★★☆
A woman wearing a leather jacket and a crossbody bag stands in front of a graffitied wall in film drama Shadows of Beirut
Shadows of Beirut
Chaos and crisis as woman goes back to birth city in fractured Covid-era drama
★★★☆☆
Two children sit in dim blue light, one holding a lit stick, the other holding a glowing radio in Rising Up at Night
Rising Up at Night
Community spirit shines bright in Kinshasa’s shadows
★★★☆☆
Two women sit at a restaurant table with drinks, both photographing themselves on smartphones. Maja Bons, and Bea Brocks in Babystar.
Babystar
A new arrival upends life in disturbing family influencer satire
★★★☆☆
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We recommend

Philomena

Exhilarating film that packs a sledgehammer emotional punch

★★★★☆
Judi Dench is effortlessly moving as an Irish woman seeking to learn about the fate of her baby boy
Philomena Lee and Martin Sixsmith sit smiling side by side in an airport, played by Judi Dench and Steve Coogan
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