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Dir: Andrea Di Stefano. Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike, Common, Clive Owen, Ana de Armas, Sam Spruell, Martin McCann. 15 cert, 113 min. The Informer is one of the year’s more pleasant genre surprises: a clenched fist of a crime thriller in the mode of The Departed or The Town, in which every element is just…

Seventy-five years since the Second World War, the new Nazi satire film from Thor Ragnorak director Taika Waititi premiered yesterday at the Toronto Film Festival to surprisingly positive reviews. The Collider billed it “the sweetest, funniest film about Nazis you’ll ever see”, praising its big heart and the deft way in which it makes “the Nazis…

The director of Crazy Rich Asians has lent his support to the film’s co-writer after she walked away from two planned sequels in an equal pay dispute. Adele Lim dropped out after saying she was to be paid far less than what another writer, Peter Chiarelli, would earn. She told the Hollywood Reporter she felt…

Downton Abbey’s much-anticipated cinematic adaptation has arrived and critics have had their say on Julian Fellowes’ period drama. The hugely popular TV series aired on ITV from 2010 to 2015 and followed the fortunes of the aristocratic Crawley family and their downstairs servants at a Yorkshire country estate. The film kicks off in 1927, shortly…

For Sama review: an acutely personal, soul-shaking view of atrocity

Dir: David Raymond. Cast: Henry Cavill, Stanley Tucci, Ben Kingsley, Alexandra Daddario, Minka Kelly, Brendan Fletcher, Nathan Fillion. 15 cert, 97 mins Night Hunter is a B-list police thriller so loony and crass it’s almost fascinating, like some sort of accidental spin-off from Twin Peaks. As far as you can work out, the film isn’t aiming for…

In the awards season calendar, think of the London Film Festival as the first Sunday of Advent. Christmas morning – for which, read the Oscars – might still seem a long way off, but it’s coming. When the LFF was founded in 1957, awards season as we know it simply didn’t exist. But the event’s…

Dir: Lorene Scarafia. Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Julia Stiles, Keke Palmer, Lili Reinhart, Cardi B, Lizzo, Stormi Maya, Madeline Brewer, Mercedes Ruehl. 15 cert, 110 mins You’ve never seen Jennifer Lopez sell a character quite like she does in Hustlers. In a ruling-the-roost turn that’s already much buzzed about, she plays Ramona, the queen of a…

A Million Little Pieces, review: this addiction ‘memoir’ may be a pack of lies, but at least they’re stylishly told

Dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke, Clémentine Grenier, Manon Clavel, Alain Libolt, Christian Crahay, Roger van Hool. Cert tbc, 106 mins The truth hurts, so they say – and in The Truth it’s like toothache: an ambient nag that waits for the worst possible moment to twinge. The new film from Hirokazu…

The new trailer for the final Star Wars film has been publicly released and shows Rey, the heroine of the most recent trilogy of Star Wars films, breaking bad.  Rey, who has been played by Daisy Ridley since the character’s arrival in 2015’s The Force Awakens, can be seen wielding an impressive double-pronged red lightsabre…

Dir: Adrian Grünberg. Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Paz Vega, Óscar Jaenada, Louis Mandylor, Adriana Barraza,Yvette Monreal. 18 cert, 89 mins The fifth and, if we’re lucky, final instalment in the Rambo series is called Last Blood, but it could just as easily be called Most Blood. Apparent retirement hasn’t stopped Sylvester Stallone’s ever-ready ’Nam vet, John Rambo, from…