Pick of the week
One Battle After Another<\/p>\n
Paul Thomas Anderson finally gets his Oscar \u2013 and with one of his most riotously enjoyable<\/a> films. His take on Thomas Pynchon novel Vineland ejects the author\u2019s trademark impenetrability and gives us a larger-than-life action caper with political undertones. Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio), part of a US left-wing revolutionary group betrayed by his own lover, lives off-grid with teen daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti). That is until white supremacist Col Steven Lockjaw (Sean Penn) comes searching for Willa \u2013 who may be his child \u2013 and she and Bob are forced on the run. Also in the mix are Benicio del Toro\u2019s martial arts teacher\/migrant activist, two assassins and a bunch of radical nuns. Breathless fun. On Swift HorsesDesire \u2026 Will Poulter, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi in On Swift Horses. Photograph: Landmark Media\/Alamy<\/p>\n When discharged Korean war soldier Julius (Jacob Elordi) visits his brother Lee (Will Poulter) in Kansas, he and Lee\u2019s fiancee Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones) seem to have an instant connection. However, in Daniel Minahan\u2019s plaintive, episodic 50s-set drama<\/a>, it\u2019s not in the way you might expect. In an era when sexual fluidity was taboo\/illegal, the two\u2019s seemingly different experiences \u2013 one stuck in the domestic routine in San Diego; the other a card sharp in Vegas \u2013 are linked by their stymied desire to be their true selves. La ChimeraEngaging \u2026 Josh O\u2019Connor in La Chimera. Photograph: Tempesta\/ Ad Vitam\/ Amka Films\/ RAI<\/p>\n Alice Rohrwacher\u2019s wonderful 2023 drama<\/a> digs itself into your heart, just as the ragtag bunch of Italian grave-robbers she introduces unearth the ancient past and plunder it. Josh O\u2019Connor, at his most engagingly diffident, plays Arthur, an English archaeologist with an innate ability to root out Etruscan tombs. He has just been freed from prison but falls straight back into the activity that got him banged up, while pining for his missing, possibly dead lover. Carol Duarte is a real find as Italia, a maid who is very much alive and may be his route out of a dissolute life. Theater CampMake belief \u2026 Ben Platt and Molly Gordon in Theater Camp. Photograph: AP<\/p>\n A mockumentary that manages to avoid mocking most of its subjects, Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman\u2019s sweet film<\/a> follows a season at a financially precarious but much-loved youth performing-arts summer school. With the director having had a stroke, her son, \u201cbusiness vlogger\u201d Troy (Jimmy Tatro), takes charge, much to the bemusement of the kids and staff, including teachers and besties Rebecca-Diane (Gordon) and Amos (Ben Platt). A love letter to institutions such as this that provide havens for the unconforming and outcast, both young and old. SupermanHigh flying \u2026 David Corenswet in Superman. Photograph: Album\/Alamy<\/p>\n
Thursday, 10.30am, 10.20pm, Sky Cinema Premiere\/HBO Max<\/p>\n
Saturday, 8.20am, 9.45pm, Sky Cinema Premiere<\/p>\n
Saturday, 9.20pm, BBC Four<\/p>\n
Tuesday, 9pm, Film4<\/p>\n