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<p>Overrated?: Daniel Day-Lewis in ‘There Will Be Blood’ and Cillian Murphy in ‘Oppenheimer’</p>

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The most overrated films of the 21st century

Prepare to be outraged, or prepare to find affirmation in someone else having the same opinion as you: here are 15 of the most inexplicably praised-to-the-hilt movies of the last 25 years, as (exclusively) chosen by Ed Power

<p>The website is now home to 17 million users</p>

Letterboxd is the Gen Z fad that might just save cinema

<p>Ralph Fiennes in ‘28 Years Later’</p>

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28 Years Later’s twist is scandalous and utterly fascinating

<p>Misunderstood: Ryan O’Neal in Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Barry Lyndon’</p>

INSIDE FILM

Stanley Kubrick’s biggest folly is actually his ultimate masterpiece

Inside Film

<p>Bat’s enough out of you: Christian Bale and Cillian Murphy in ‘Batman Begins’</p>

Inside Film

How Batman Begins made a giant of Christopher Nolan and changed cinema

Twenty years on from the landmark blockbuster, starring Christian Bale as the Dark Knight, there’s no understating its influence. Louis Chilton looks at the making and legacy of a superhero film quite like none before it

<p>Oscar Isaac as Frankenstein in Guillermo del Toro’s forthcoming horror</p>

INSIDE FILM

Frankenstein might be the most urgent and timely blockbuster of 2025

Guillermo del Toro’s new adaptation of a 200-year-old book has uncanny relevance to our present day. And it’s a film that the acclaimed director of ‘The Shape of Water’ and ‘Hellboy’ has been rehearsing for his entire career, writes Xan Brooks

Reviews

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M3GAN 2.0 is a hyper-camp mashup of T2 and Mission: Impossible

The horror genre might have just found its new icon thanks to this dumb, funny sequel, which contains the gag of the summer

<p>Dr Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) in '28 Years Later'</p>

28 Years Later feels like being hit on the head by the metaphor hammer

Interviews

<p>‘When those moments arrive where your control is threatened, I can spot it now much earlier and steer it away as politely as I can. Or if I have to be rude, I’ll be rude’</p>

Danny Boyle: ‘Britain’s on the decline – whether we like it or not’

<p>‘I’m there on this rope, thinking... I studied the classics! I wanted to do Chekhov! How did I get here?’</p>

INTERVIEW

Gina Gershon: ‘I have a lot of PTSD from Showgirls’

<p>‘It’s been 21 years of my life that I have not had my father in it. And it’s a pain that I don’t ever express’</p>

Interview

Barbie Ferreira: ‘We all have daddy issues – literally everyone’

Filmmaker Hudson is releasing her first fiction feature

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From homelessness to filmmaking: Daisy-May Hudson on her film Lollipop

Jackie Chan: ‘Karate Kid: Legends is not too violent. In this movie, when you fight, it’s like dancing’

Interview

Jackie Chan at 71: ‘Jump off a building? I need a stunt double now’

<p>Matthew Rhys: ‘A plastic surgeon took one look at me and knew I was Celtic’</p>

Interview

Matthew Rhys: ‘I would have tried to play James Bond as a Welshman’

<p>‘It’s fun to do my own stunts. The aches and the pains feel like part and parcel’</p>

Interview

Daisy Ridley: ‘The fact is, all actors are mainly known for one thing’

<p>‘Right now I really need to think about what kinds of movies I’ll make going forward’</p>

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Steven Soderbergh: ‘Erin Brockovich wouldn’t get made today’

Features

<p>George MacKay and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett in Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s ‘Femme’</p>

In Focus

How a violent drag queen thriller became too controversial for Britain

<p>'Love Letters' and 'Sentimental Value'</p>

Cannes 2025

The 8 best movies we saw at Cannes Film Festival 2025

<p>Zoom in for detail: Benicio Del Toro soaks up the scenery in Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’</p>

Inside the obsessive, compulsive making of a Wes Anderson set

<p>Wes Anderson directs Mia Threapleton and Benicio Del Toro on the set of his new film, ‘The Phoenician Scheme’</p>

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Wes Anderson isn’t in a rut, but he could do with another flop

Flashbacks

<p>An indispensable, delightful – and nostalgic – piece of Bond’s hallowed history: Roger Moore and Grace Jones in ‘A View to a Kill’</p>

A View to a Kill doesn’t deserve its reputation as the worst ever Bond

<p>Romantic euphoria: Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen in ‘Pride & Prejudice’</p>

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How 2005’s Pride & Prejudice became the ultimate 21st-century romcom

<p>Scream queen: Tina Turner reportedly beat out David Bowie and Mick Jagger to play the film’s Acid Queen</p>

Features

Baked beans, Tina Turner and Elton John on stilts: The story behind Tommy

<p>Sink or swim: Leonardo DiCaprio in Danny Boyle’s ‘The Beach’</p>

How The Beach nearly sank Leonardo DiCaprio (and upset Ewan McGregor)

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