Nigel Andrews

A breakthrough in the depiction of the black experience of inequality and oppression

Scarlett Johansson has a hankering for male flesh in Jonathan Glazer’s eerie horror/sci-fi

Juliette Binoche’s performance as the French sculptor incarcerated in an asylum is astonishing

Richard Lester’s songs-and-comedy Beatles classic is restored and reissued

A world-class photographer is revealed this spellbinding documentary

Fresh from winning his first award at the Venice Film Festival, the Russian director comes from a long line of survivors

Nothing happens, yet everything happens in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s brilliant film

A fastidious performance from Daniel Day-Lewis in this unsettling movie

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Stargazing at the movies has this in common with celestial stargazing: you’re looking at activity that happened long before you looked. What seems a living present is a trick of time and perception. Sometimes the paradoxes of the cinema cosmos can be even more headspinning. Past, present and future perform a mega-dance of change, contradiction and counterintuitiveness. Take a famous, starry rock in the Hollywood firmament. First appearing to the eye 70-some years ago, it swiftly became a major…