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<p>Filmmaker Rob Reiner on the set of ‘When Harry Met Sally’, with his stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan</p>

Tribute

Rob Reiner was joy personified – and his movies were warm hugs

As the director behind classics including ‘When Harry Met Sally’, ‘Stand by Me’ and ‘The Princess Bride’, the filmmaker proved himself an expert in creating astonishingly kind and humane cinema. His death is a shocking, senseless end to a remarkable life, writes Adam White

<p>‘It was awful timing. It was the biggest opportunity I’d had in my career. And we weren’t allowed to talk about it’</p>

Interview

Saltburn’s Archie Madekwe: ‘Emerald Fennell set out to provoke’

<p>‘I think people are missing the relationships they had with ER, or 24, or NYPD Blue. It was something you could rely on’</p>

Interview

Kiefer Sutherland: ‘After 24, the roles I anticipated didn’t come’

<p>Best of: Oscar Isaac in ‘Frankenstein’, Jennifer Lawrence in ‘Die My Love’, Emma Stone in ‘Bugonia’, and Chase Infiniti in ‘One Battle After Another’</p>

Best of 2025

The 15 best films of 2025, from Mickey 17 to One Battle After Another

Inside Film

<p>Gloria Swanson as the faded movie star Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s ‘Sunset Boulevard’</p>

Inside Film

Hollywood is poison – and Sunset Boulevard exposed it all

Seventy-five years after its release, Billy Wilder’s melodramatic satire on celebrity culture and faded stardom – starring Gloria Swanson as its grotesque heroine – retains its tragic grandeur, writes Xan Brooks

<p>The AI critic is an irksome presence, flooding the zone with his mediocre critiques, constantly trawling for clicks and likes</p>

Inside Film

Film critics are great because they’re flawed. AI critics are nothing

Artificial intelligence has given rise to a new breed of movie pundit – one that gloms onto consensus opinion and regurgitates rote praise. Xan Brooks looks out at this new frontier of film criticism and despairs