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Hollywood's gender divide laid bare by analysis of this season's Oscar...

Exclusive: Data on this year’s awards contenders reveals three youngest best actor hopefuls have never made a film with a female directorStriking contrasts in the choices of male and female awards...

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The 50 best films of 2019 in the UK: No 10 – Pain and Glory

Antonio Banderas plays a stand-in for Pedro Almodóvar in the director’s serious-minded and moving late-career meditation on mortality, memory, regret and desireThe 50 best films of 2019 in the UKMore...

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The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: No 10 – Pain and Glory

Antonio Banderas plays a stand-in for Pedro Almodóvar in the director’s serious-minded and moving late-career meditation on mortality, memory, regret and desireThe 50 best films of 2019 in the USMore...

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Crying! Pole-Dancing! Heroin! The best movie moments of 2019

From an awkward scene with a knife to an A-lister’s comeback with the sounds of Fiona Apple, Guardian writers pick their favourite big screen bits of the yearIn Ford v Ferrari (AKA Le Mans 66), Carroll...

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Dolittle review – Robert Downey Jr's middling talking-animals pantomime

The Avengers star opts for a dodgy Welsh accent in an uninspiring if not entirely unwatchable new take on the animal-friendly doctorEvery imaginable indicator suggested that Dolittle, the umpteenth...

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'Treated us like simpletons': Pedro Almodóvar criticises Madonna over...

Spanish film director says the pop star treated him and Antonio Banderas disrespectfully during filming of 1990’s Madonna: Truth or DareOscar-winning Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar has written...

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Antonio Banderas reveals he has coronavirus on 60th birthday

The actor has said he is celebrating in quarantine and otherwise relatively unaffected, other than being ‘a little bit more tired than usual’The actor Antonio Banderas has confirmed on Twitter that he...

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'Very colourful': Pedro Almodóvar making 'a different kind of western'

Legendary Spanish director outlines his plans and vision at Venice film festivalLegendary Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has said that he is working on a western – a surprising career turn for the...

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The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard review – Ryan Reynolds back in a tiresome sequel

Reynolds returns as bodyguard Michael Bryce, with Samuel L Jackson as an assassin, Salma Hayek as his badass wife and Antonio Banderas as a Greek supervillain. Please stopHere’s the tiresome follow-up...

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Pedro Almodóvar’s films – ranked!

With his new film, Parallel Mothers, to be shown at Venice film festival, we take a look through the director’s ribald, pell-mell and beautifully colour co-ordinated outputAirline staff and passengers...

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Venice film festival red carpet: from Helen Mirren to Timothée Chalamet – in...

Foil wraps, bandage dresses … and general va va voom. A selection of the best looks from the 2021 eventContinue reading...

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Venice film festival 2021 roundup – a formidably good year on the Lido

Big name directors at their best feature alongside daring visionaries from the farther realms of art cinema – but to whom will Bong Joon-ho’s jury award the Golden Lion?Critics are allegedly very hard...

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Uncharted review – Tom Holland game adaptation is action-movie by committee

Holland gives his all as rogueish treasure hunter Nathan Drake in a by-the-numbers PlayStation adaptation that’s heavy on spectacle but light on heartWith laser-guided precision, with the exactitude...

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Andrew Lloyd Webber and Antonio Banderas team up for Spanish venture

Composer and actor launch theatre production company focusing on Spanish-speaking audiencesOne is an award-winning composer whose musicals have been staged the world over. The other, an Oscar-nominated...

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Official Competition review – Penélope Cruz on fire in delicious movie...

Cruz’s eccentric director employs unorthodox techniques to manage lead actors – and polar opposites – Antonio Banderas and Oscar MartínezIt’s clever casting – and very entertaining – to put screen...

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Official Competition review – Penélope Cruz is a deadpan dream in wicked...

Two actors vie for the attention of their autocratic director in this hilarious Spanish-language skewering of the movie-making businessThere’s a certain kind of film about film-making that fully buys...

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The Enforcer review – Antonio Banderas adds class to straight-to-video throwback

The star presumably had one eye on the paycheque in this by-the-numbers thriller about a debt collector punching and shooting his way to bloody revengeAntonio Banderas is a class act but there’s only...

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The Enforcer review – thuddingly predictable crime thriller

Antonio Banderas plays a jaded career criminal with a softer side in a film that limps between Miami sleaze clichesAntonio Banderas stars as Cuda, a jaded career criminal, recently released from...

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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish review – sequel no one wanted resembles longform...

Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek and other stars squander their talents voicing harmless but pointless sequel to 2010’s Puss in BootsSomewhat mystifyingly, some top-secret algorithmic function in...

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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish review – sharp, striking Shrek spin-off

Puss, voiced by Antonio Banderas, must beat Goldilocks, Jack Horner and co to the magic star that will restore his nine lives in this lively animationThis Shrek spin-off is a breezily entertaining...

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