Stephanie Bunbury

As 2024 draws to a close, Deadline's film critics have each chosen their Top 3 international movies of the year. A trio of those selected recently made the International Feature Oscar shortlist — though not all titles below were put forth by their country of origin. Overall, as Deadline's Awards…

Deadline’s film critics have been on the frontlines of 2024’s movie releases since way back at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Since then, they’ve been on the beaches of Cannes, the canals of Venice, the mountains of Telluride and the sidewalks of Toronto, discovering the best the year in movies…

Around three-quarters of the way through the prodigious length of Pushpa 2: The Rule, Pushpa's spirited wife Srivalli (Rashmika Mandanna) reminds a crowd that her husband "is not just a man; he is a brand." These are the truest words spoken in this unabashedly commercial film, which takes up from where Pus…

Sex, drugs and some kid blasting into a microphone: It's still the most shocking, most fun combination of anything in the world, still the stuff that blasts each generation out of childhood into the thrill of youth. Kneecap, both the Irish-language rap band and the film in which the three "low-life scum"…

As the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches, there could be no better time to revisit the tumultuous events of 1968 in what was then Czechoslovakia. In August of that year, Russian tanks rolled into Prague – along with the armies of five countries within the Soviet bloc – to…

Colman Domingo first met Clarence Maclin on a Zoom call in 2022. Domingo's slate that year included playing Mister in the remake of The Color Purple and the title role in Rustin, a biopic about Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin that would earn him an Oscar nomination. Maclin, by contrast, was a decade…

Olivia Colman plays a singing nun. I'm almost prepared to say that's all you need to know about Paddington in Peru: that Olivia Colman, living English treasure, gets her Julie Andrews on and leads a song-and-dance sequence on an alpine meadow that tells us that the hills are still very much alive. It's…

There is always space, it seems, for another warm-hearted story about the foibles of Irish working-class women, cosy as a fireside chat with a nice cup of tea. As for gay men and their mams, that's a rich  seam of drama, comedy and whatever lies in between that is probably inexhaustible. The four mothers…

At one point in The Summer Book, Charlie McDowell's infinitely gentle adaptation of Tove Jansson's novel about a small girl, her father and grandmother spending the short Finnish summer on one of the country's thousands of islands, nine-year-old Sophia looks at a tapestry on the wall showing a rampant…

Costa-Gavras' single hyphenated trade name has been synonymous with political thrillers since Z shot from the starting gates in 1969 to win two Oscars and bring the world's attention to the machinations of the military junta then ruling Greece. Among the numerous films he has made over the ensuing…

Johnny Depp's bohemian fantasy Modi – Three Days on the Wing of Madness starts at full throttle, with the artist Amelio Modigliani (Riccardo Scamarcio) breaking up the Café Dome, then exiting on a trolley straight through their stained-glass window, smashing the Art Nouveau rosebuds to bits while still…

Dames, right? It's the quiet ones you have to watch, although the more flamboyant also require a vigilant eye, especially if said dame is packing a pistol. Mercedes (Elisa Zulueta) is the self-effacing secretary to a senior judge in Santiago, Chile; Maria Carolina Geel (Francisca Lewin) is a murderer. The…