From Edvard Munch to Central Cee: Observer critics choose their cultural highlights for 2025
From Thom Yorke’s Shakespearean score to 25 years of Tate Modern, Bridget Jones to Leigh Bowery, our writers anticipate the most exciting shows, releases and events of the year
December 2024
2025 culture preview
Auteurs assemble! Why 2025 offers a banquet of movies by cinema’s great creators
2025 culture preview
Toyboys, divas and Bridget Jones: the films to look forward to in 2025
June 2024
‘It always destroys me’: our writers on their saddest movie deaths
As Julia Louis-Dreyfus tackles the death of her on-screen daughter in recent fantastical drama Tuesday, Guardian writers look back at the death scenes that ruined them
May 2024
Party like it’s 1999: 10 movies that encapsulate one of the greatest years for cinema
It was the year when arthouse brains met Hollywood brawn. But what made the last 12 months of the 90s so special? These films tell the story
December 2022
Ranked
The best New Year’s Eve scenes – ranked
Best films 2022
Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 5 – Licorice Pizza
June 2022
Philip Baker Hall obituary
Best culture of 2022 so far
The best films of 2022 so far
April 2022
Ranked
Mark Wahlberg’s 20 best films – ranked!
From Transformers to Daddy’s Home, Marky Mark’s made some stinkers, so hopefully the actor will find redemption in Catholic drama Father Stu. And we’ll forgive him everything for Boogie Nights
March 2022
Best picture Oscar hustings
Why Licorice Pizza should win the best picture Oscar
Peter Bradshaw’s Bafta 2022 predictions – who will win and who should win?
February 2022
Oscars nominations 2022: the full list
My award goes to... our film critics reveal their personal Oscars shortlists
January 2022
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson’s joyously nostalgic coming-of-age tale
Down the rabbit hole
What links Licorice Pizza to The Gong Show?
December 2021
The Guide newsletter
The Guide #15: all the films, TV and music to get excited about in 2022
‘Being in love is the most difficult challenge of your life’: Paul Thomas Anderson and Alana Haim on making Licorice Pizza
The Guide newsletter
The Guide #13: ranking Succession’s power players after that Tuscan finale
Licorice Pizza, The Matrix and Macbeth: new films to watch in Australia over the holidays