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<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’

The actor who gave us Jack Bauer talks to Louis Chilton about his new Christmas comedy ‘Tinsel Town’, the ‘ironic’ state of modern television, and why his acting style is so starkly different from that of his father

<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

<p>Delroy Lindo: 'Sinners is telling the larger story of what happens when a community is violated'</p>

Interview

Delroy Lindo: ‘I get tired of my own voice – but I never get tired of talking about Sinners’

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

Inside Film

Hollywood is poison – and 75 years ago Sunset Boulevard exposed it all

Inside Film

<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

<p>And starring as himself: George Clooney is Jay Kelly in Noah Baumbach’s ‘Jay Kelly’</p>

Inside Film

George Clooney basically plays himself in Jay Kelly, and it’s wildly unconvincing

Noah Baumbach’s new comedy drama ‘Jay Kelly’ casts Clooney as a wealthy, handsome, pampered and indulged A-lister, and like many films in which fake stars opine about the miseries of celebrity, it quickly wears out its welcome, writes Xan Brooks