Ahead of a season celebrating his films at BFI Southbank, the legendary Alien, Bladerunner and Gladiator director will answer questions about his near 50-year career
November 2024
When historians and directors clash: ‘Ridley Scott was Napoleonic – there was no doubt who was in charge’
Film and TV have a slippery relationship with the truth when it comes to historical epics. So spare a thought for the historical experts whose advice often goes unheeded
March 2024
The seven best films to watch on TV this week
Napoleon to Damsel: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Joaquin Phoenix leads the charge in Ridley Scott’s lavish biopic, while Millie Bobby Brown is the noblewoman imprisoned in a dragon’s cave in a movie that’s guaranteed to be huge
February 2024
Baftas 2024: the red carpet, the ceremony, the winners – as it happened
There were big sleeves, sweet speeches, Hannah Waddingham sang and there was a guy on rollerskates. Here’s what happened at the 77th British academy film awards
January 2024
Tin can alley: the return of the Sad Man in Space
With Spaceman, Adam Sandler joins a cohort of weepy astronauts plundering the woes of the male psyche far from Earth. What are all these sad blokes trying to tell us?
Baftas 2024: the full list of nominations
All the films and actors up for awards at the 77th edition of the British Academy film awards
Biopic woman: move over Napoleon, Ferrari and Oppenheimer … here come the wives
From Ridley Scott’s Napoleon to Michael Mann’s Ferrari, this has been a year of biopics about men, by men. But it’s the female powerhouses who deserve equal billing
December 2023
Best movies US 2023
The 50 best movies of 2023 in the US
There was an extraordinary epic, a mesmeric emotional drama with Andrew Scott and an astonishing performance by Emma Stone on our list of must-see films of the year
Best films of 2023
The 50 best films of 2023 in the UK
From Scorsese’s macabre western to Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, a Bernstein biopic, a queer cowboy yarn and a swansong from a master Japanese animator, our critics have selected the year’s screen standouts
‘Oh, the importance of the phallus!’ Paul Rhys on Saltburn, Napoleon and viagra romp Men Up
No country for old men? Why Miyazaki, Loach and Scott can’t stop making movies
Notebook
We don’t go to the movies for a history lesson, but shouldn’t Napoleon at least be entertaining?
Rowan Moore
November 2023
Brief letters
Napoleon dynamite or Bonaparte bomb? Balanced views of Ridley Scott’s biopic
Critics of Napoleon epic have fallen for emperor’s fibs, says film’s military expert
Like the rest of France, I couldn’t wait for Ridley Scott’s Napoleon. Then I actually saw it
Agnès Poirier
Napoleon and The Crown are travesties: there is no ‘artistic licence’ to distort history
Simon Jenkins
Sweary, angry, honest: is Ridley Scott Hollywood’s greatest interviewee?
Stuart Heritage
Wendy Ide's film of the week
Napoleon review – Ridley Scott’s sturdy epic only fully comes alive on the battlefield
Emperor’s new clothes: why the French are ready to embrace Napoleon again
Directors are turning to streaming to fulfil their epic visions – and avoid ‘bum ache’
