The complainants have got it all wrong. This Oscar-nominated movie is not about Adrien Brody’s Hungarian-Jewish architect, it’s an argument for culture
By John Nathan
Mel Gibson’s thriller is set almost entirely in the cabin of a plane as it flies over the bleak Alaskan mountains, and that is the best thing about it
To mark 80 years since Auschwitz’s liberation, a new BBC film commemorates the 15 orchestras of Auschwitz
By Elisa Bray
Brady Corbet’s new movie stars Adrien Brody as a mid-century designer and a Shoah survivor and pays tribute to the beauty of architecture, a discipline rarely celebrated on the screen
By James Mottram
As its title promises, the film perpetuates a messianic-like mystery about the troubadour, but if you want to see an actor at the top of his game you are in for a treat
Nicole Kidman’s character appears to have it all, but her sex life is not what she needs it to be
World leaders take on zombies and a giant brain in this genre-defying film
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Bullied by a two-year-old’s tears, a woman’s fire extinguished in a pool of wee-wee and need, there is a kind of catharsis in this tale about the spirit-sapping reality of bringing up children
Here comes the Chanukah cringe
By Eliana Jordan
Pop star Ariana Grande’s narcissistic Galinda turns spoilt vacuity into art
Ridley Scott’s sequel is not the Hollywood boot-filling exercise you might expect
A new book about the Jewish writer and director’s filmography brings nostalgia for the era of When Harry Met Sally style rom-coms
This delve into the underbelly of Manhattan sex clubs and Brooklyn’s Russian émigré community has been compared to ‘Pretty Woman’, but it’s better than that
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd rehabilitates the young svengali’s reputation with charm in this film, but the Fab Four fall curiously flat
Tracy-Ann Oberman and daughter Anoushka star in their first film project together, and two Charedi movies explore a community changing with the times
By Nicole Lampert
This is the Last Dance of his three-deal franchise and I suspect Tom Hardy is feeling rather relieved
A new film, due for its British premiere at next month’s UK Jewish Film Festival, uncovers the ongoing fight for justice over the art the Nazis stole from the Jews
By Gaby Koppel
A study in the differences between Indian and Moroccan Israeli communities set against the ochre colours of the Negev desert
Dan Reed’s new Channel 4 documentary One Day in October features moving testimonies from survivors including Emily Hand
The Netflix hit does a disastrous disservice to Jewish and non-Jewish women alike. It is nothing short of the Madonna-whore complex updated for our age
By Karen Glaser
This first feature by director and co-writer Noé Debré could so easily have ended up as a kosher kitchen sink drama. Instead, it’s a gem
Love lives that turn out to be little less interesting for a show of two and a half hours
Cédric Kahn on his reconstruction of the 1976 trial of leftist Pierre Goldman – and the French judicial system’s prejudice against Jews
