'Full of emotional wisdom': Guardian writers on the best movie romances you might not have seen

For Valentine’s Day, writers picked their favourite lesser-known film love stories – from a dom-sub chamberpiece to a magical teen comedy

Animol review

Institutional menace and an idealistic take on redemption sit side-by-side in Top Boy actor Ashley Walters’ empathic and occasionally over-earnest film

Bafta has caught the zeitgeist with One Battle After Another, but let’s hear it for The Ballad of Wallis Island

Paul Thomas Anderson’s antifa parable is queasily relevant to the times, but here’s hoping Tim Key and co can get some reward for their brilliant British film

Sinners becomes first film in history to earn 16 Oscar nominations

Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value and Frankenstein score nine apiece

Sundance Film Festival 2026 opens for its final year in Park City, Utah. Here are some of the highlights.

January 22, 2026 / 6:00 AM EST / CBS News

Matt Damon’s best films

Ahead of his reunion with Ben Affleck in thriller The Rip – as well as his starring role in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Imax epic The Odyssey – we run through the best work of one of Hollywood’s most reliable heroes