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<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’

The British ‘Midsommar’ and ‘Saltburn’ actor, this month named one of ‘Hollywood’s hottest young stars’, now plays a stalked musician in the eerie thriller ‘Lurker’. He talks to Tom Murray about nascent celebrity, the provocations of Emerald Fennell, and his night at Paris Hilton’s birthday party

<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

<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’

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