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OPINION: Turning the music off is not a pathway to peace

The artists blocking their music being streamed in Israel are doing more harm than good

By Gaby Wine

3 min read

Israeli singers Noa (left) and Palestinian Israeli singer Mira Awad, representing Israel, perform during the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 Semi Finals (Photo: Getty)

Extreme combover: Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Hart and Margaret Qualley as Elizabeth Weiland

Film

Blue Moon review: ‘Ethan Hawke turns in a superb performance’ ★★★★

By John Nathan

1 min read

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo as Glinda and Elphaba in Wicked (Photo: Universal Pictures)

Film

Wicked: For Good: Pitch-perfect escapism that surpasses the smash-hit original ★★★★★

By John Nathan

1 min read

Film

Nuremberg review: ‘It all feels too sexy, glamorous even’ ★★★

By John Nathan

2 min read

Pope Leo

Pope Leo names Holocaust film among his all-time favourite films

By Siam Goorwich

2 min read

Film

Nancy Spielberg on her bold new October 7 documentary: ‘It’s an exploration of cinema versus reality’

By Eliana Jordan

4 min read

Showbiz

Scarlett Johansson: ‘People make antisemitic comments and just assume you feel the same way’

By Eliana Jordan

2 min read

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Offensive material about the original blood libel removed from Norwich Cathedral after Jewish Film Festival project

Narrative linking William of Norwich to the Holy Innocents removed from medieval cathedral in home of original blood libel

By Jane Prinsley

6 min read

Film

Turn up the volume on this wartime yarn of death and Elgar ★★★

Nicholas Hytner’s production of Alan Bennett’s First World War drama in the Yorkshire Dales is quietly moving, but maybe too quiet

By John Nathan

1 min read

Eminently watchable: Ralph Fiennes in The Choral

Film

‘How I mixed Jodie, Jewish jokes and AI to make my thriller’

Director Rebecca Zlotowski on the Oscar winner’s role in her new film

By James Mottram

4 min read

Flawless: Jodie Foster as psychiatrist Lilian in A Private Life

Film

Fantasy Life review: ‘I think I suffer from internalised antisemitism’ ★★★

In this neurotic and funny film, Matthew Shear plays a failed tax lawyer who’s ashamed of being Jewish

By John Nathan

1 min read

Fantasy Life review: ‘I think I suffer from internalised antisemitism’ ★★★

Film

How bad can a Friday night dinner get? How long you got?

New York film director Daniel Robbins on his comedy about having your future Catholic in-laws over for Shabbat

By John Nathan

5 min read

Don't say grace: the two families at the dinner table in Bad Shabbos

UK Jewish Film Festival 2025

Why is this UK Jewish Film Festival different from all other years?

Eliana Jordan speaks to the film-makers behind seven prize-winning shorts portraying weird and wonderful facets of everyday Jewish life in Britain

By Eliana Jordan

7 min read

Film

After The Hunt review: Julia Roberts at her superb best in campus thriller ★★★★

The actor shines as a lecturer caught in the crossfire of a culture war showdown

By John Nathan

2 min read

Commanding performance: Julia Roberts as brittle, high-flying Yale professor Alma

documentary

‘It’s a way of processing grief – and connecting’: Ben Stiller on making a documentary about his famous parents

The movie star shares his inspiration for creating ‘Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost’ about parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara - and what it revealed about his relationship with his own kids

By James Mottram

5 min read

Ben Stiller and sister Amy Stiller in 'Stiller and Meara: Nothing is Lost'. Credit: Apple TV+

Film

Good Boy review: Woof! Woof! A four-legged star is born ★★★★

The director and his producer wife’s dog is the star of this supernatural horror film

By John Nathan

1 min read

Pooch perfect: Indy the dog and his on-screen owner Todd, played by Shane Jensen

Israeli film

‘This TV series is a document of what actually happened on October 7’

‘We promised the survivors accuracy, no propoganda, just their truth’

By Eliana Silver

3 min read

Hisham Suliman plays Ayoub Sulliman hiding with his infant behind enemy lines in Red Alert (Credit: Ran Mendelson/Green Productions, Bender Brown Productions)

Israeli film

Israel’s national film awards face funding cuts after win for Palestinian-perspective picture

The Sea by Shai Carmeli-Pollak, which tells the story of a Palestinian boy trying to get to Tel Aviv, was labelled a “slap in the face” by Culture Minister Miki Zohar

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

The Sea won in numerous categories at this years Ophir Awards

Film

The Long Walk: ‘call it the Dystopian State Teen Killing genre’★★★★

One hundred young men compete in an endurance event until there is only one is left. Those who are moving too slowly are shot in the head in this tough-to-watch movie adapted from Stephen King’s first novel

By John Nathan

2 min read

Death march: Cooper Hoffman (centre, in hat) and David Jonsson (third from left) in Frances Lawrence's The Long Walk

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Holding Liat review: ‘A loving family rent apart by October 7’ ★★★★

This documentary reveals the anguish and shock of a family torn asunder by the massacre, and its attempt to reconcile the horror with their politics of peaceful coexistence

By John Nathan

2 min read

Helplessness: the Beinin family embraces

Boycotts

‘They’re targeting the wrong people’: Israeli filmmakers hit back at ‘profoundly misguided’ Hollywood boycott

The boycott is backed by actors including Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Cynthia Nixon

By Siam Goorwich

1 min read

Ilana Glazer, Olivia Colman and Cynthia Nixon are among the signatories to the letter announcing the boycott (Photos: Getty)

review

The Smashing Machine review: A sweat-and-blood sports drama without the Rocky-style finale ★★★

Benny Safdie’s first solo project about MMA fighter Mark Kerr’s drug-addled ascent to early UFC fame simmers but never boils, despite Dwayne Johnson’s stand-out performance

By James Mottram

2 min read

Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr in 'The Smashing Machine'. (Photo: Cheryl Dunn/AP)

Film

The Roses review: Colman and Cumberbatch are at their very British best in this fizzy comedy ★★★★

A British married couple descend into barbarity against the backdrop of stunning California in this thrilling adaptation

By John Nathan

1 min read

Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch in 'The Roses'. (Photo by Jaap Buitendijk, Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures)

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