‘I was 2cm from being paralysed’: UK stunt artists celebrated with donation to BFI
Gillian Aldam, who is still working at 83, among top names in rare first edition of 1973 register being given to library
The Girl with the Needle review – horribly compelling true crime period drama
A factory worker in 1920s Copenhagen struggles to survive at all costs in Magnus von Horn’s saga featuring a remarkable central performance from Vic Carmen Sonne
And the winner should be… Observer critics choose their alternative Oscars for 2025
Before the Academy Award nominations are announced on Sunday, Observer critics name their standout movies, performances, directors and more
Magic Beach: how the beloved picture book became a spell-binding animation
Alison Lester’s 90s bestseller now has a big-screen adaptation from the director of The Dry, featuring 10 animated adventures by 10 different artists
Linda Lavin obituary
Broadway actor who became a television star in the sitcom Alice as a single mother working as a waitress in a diner
Architecton review – poetic study of humankind’s bricks-and-mortar impact on the Earth
Victor Kossakovsky’s follow-up to Gunda is a gorgeously shot reverie about our use of materials such as stone and concrete
It’s Raining Men review – not even Laure Calamy can carry off this French sex comedy
The Call My Agent! star plays a dentist trying to inject some excitement into her dismal love life in Caroline Vignal’s frisky romp
Babygirl review – a bold Nicole Kidman is the draw in this lightweight erotic thriller
Kidman does her best with flimsy material as a married boss having a fling with her intern in Halina Reijn’s boardroom provocation
A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin spar in sublimely bittersweet Holocaust tour movie
The stars play Jewish American cousins touring Poland in honour of their grandmother in Eisenberg’s sharp, highly personal comedy boasting an Oscar-tipped performance from Culkin
Richard Price: ‘I don’t like to write, I just don’t – it’s too much anxiety’
The US novelist and co-writer of The Wire on why his new book isn’t about cops and robbers, his 80s drug addiction and the authors who have inspired him
On my radar: Siobhan Finneran’s cultural highlights
The actor on the band she can’t wait to see, the best place to meet friends for food in Manchester, and performance poetry that made her laugh and cry
Maria review – Angelina Jolie excels as tragic Callas
Jolie goes full-blown diva in Pablo Larraín’s reverential portrait of the great soprano – a thoroughly operatic affair steeped in hauteur and grief
‘It’s the moment when genius comes into the universe’: the film recreating SNL’s chaotic first night
A new drama recalls the wild first broadcast of Saturday Night Live in 1975. Making it was as much of a high-wire act as the show itself, the film’s director Jason Reitman and stars reveal
‘National catastrophe’: drama school funding crisis in England sparks concern
Actors Samuel West and Paapa Essiedu join calls for urgent action to protect and expand access to arts
Streaming: Pepe and the best animal films for grownups
Hallucinatory hippo drama Pepe, now on Mubi, joins the rabbits of Watership Down, a tragic donkey and elusive snow leopards in a classy menagerie