Gay conversion therapy gets the indictment it deserves, from an insightful script based on a you-are-there tell-all, and an outstanding cast
Cinema
Current highlights from Barcelona's English-language cinema scene
Shazam!
Finally, a DC superhero movie that doesn’t take itself (at all) seriously
Pet Sematary
This satisfyingly spooky film finds so-far unmined depth in Stephen King’s undead pet yarn
Dumbo
Tim Burton’s live-action take on the animation classic veers from bland to bonkers and back again
Assassination Nation
Gonzo feminist shocks meets male-gaze fantasy. Feminism comes out on top – just.
Original-language cinemas
Renoir Floridablanca
Renoir Floridablanca
Renoir-Floridablanca screens up to eight independent, offbeat American, British and Spanish films in original version per day, though note that programming...
Cinemes Maldà
Cinemes Maldà
In its latest incarnation, the well-loved Cinema Maldà is now showing indie and arthouse films. Cinema in original version with subtitles.
Filmoteca de Catalunya
Filmoteca de Catalunya
The government-funded Filmoteca is a little dry for some tastes, offering comprehensive seasons of cinema's more recondite auteurs alongside better-known...
Yelmo Cines Icaria
Yelmo Cines Icaria
This vast multiplex has all the atmosphere of the near-empty mall that surrounds it. But what it lacks in charm, it makes up for in choice, with 15 screens...
Multicines Balmes
This cinema has 12 screens (two in 3-D) and specialises in commercial films in their original language with subtitles.
Verdi Park HD
The five-screen Verdi and Verdi Park, its four-screen annexe on the next street, have transformed this corner of Gràcia with a diverse programme of...
Cinemes Texas
This cinema in Gràcia has four screens and shows a variety of films. The big draw for the locals is the subtitles are in Catalan. The big draw for everyone...
Cinemes Méliès
This small, two-screen cinema is the nearest that Barcelona comes to an arthouse theatre, with an idiosyncratic roster of accessible classics alongside more...
Our favourites
On The Basis Of Sex
Thinkers debate with passion in Mimi Leder’s intellectual ‘On the Basis of Sex’...