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Fri 16 Oct 2026

Spotlight

‘To succeed meant to leave’

Inside the jolting film about Brummie kids knocked flying by demolition

The novel had no hero, no dialogue and little action. So how was I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning turned into such a funny, rousing and acclaimed film?
Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Daryl McCormack, Jay Lycurgo and Lola Petticrew dance and cheer under 'Happy Birthday' balloons in a bar in I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning.
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Picks of the week

Two men silhouetted in the dark with high rise buildings lit up behind them
Calling the shots
What NAZA says about perpetrator cinema
A man with curly red hair in a grey T-shirt staring at the mirror
Ranked!
Jesse Eisenberg’s 10 best film performances
Two men in suits pose together at a film premier. Photographers stand in the background.
‘Stranger than stranger-than-fiction’
Lance Oppenheim has made the year’s two buzziest films
Image from The Faust Bible, digitized and processed by Stéphane Dabrowski © La Cinémathèque française, Paris
Devil in the detail
FW Murnau’s Faust scrapbook reveals the secrets of his masterpiece
Andrew Garfield in The Uprising.
Mort à la révolution!
Why UK film loves a failed rebellion
Tom Rhys Harries, in a leather jacket and jeans, sits on a wooden crate near a doorway
Tom Rhys Harries
‘A tipping point of ickiness’
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Peter Bradshaw's film of the week

NAZA

Israeli intelligence officers cast chilling light on civilian deaths

★★★★☆
Anonymous personnel discuss AI, error rates and problematic intelligence units in a documentary produced by the Guardian
Two men in silhouette talk closely at night, overlooking a lit city skyline, in a scene from NAZA
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This week's reviews

A yellow dinosaur and a larger purple fictional beast, both made out of clay, stand side by side
Kiri and Lou Go Raaa!
Delightful origin story for CBeebies’ prehistoric pals
★★★★☆
Léa Drucker in Dossier 137.
Case 137
Tense gilets-jaunes thriller divides cop’s loyalties over police brutality
★★★☆☆
A woman holding on to a fur hat, wearing a checked coat, running into the snow
Winter of the Crow
Lesley Manville magnificently on edge in intriguing cold war thriller
★★★☆☆
Michelle Yeoh's character Zhao Yanhong concentrates on solving a Rubik's Cube while an elderly woman and man, who is holding a small fan, watch her intently
It’s My Time
Michelle Yeoh excels in Rocky-style quest to be Rubik’s Cube champ
★★★☆☆
Chiara King, with silver face paint, covers her mouth while looking at a glowing phone screen
The Influencer Project
Iick-inducing thriller satirises social media content, and exploits it too
★★☆☆☆
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We recommend

Godzilla

Muscular post-nuclear parable is movingly sacrificial

★★★★☆
The sheer fervency of this film takes it beyond the crash-bang entertainment of most blockbusters
Godzilla.
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