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‘A movie star turn of the highest calibre’: we were wrong about Mother! – and Jennifer Lawrence

By the end of the 2010s, audiences soured on Lawrence as quickly as they’d fallen in love with her. But her performance in this much maligned film is utterly fearless

The French film star, the fake Irish aristocrat and the missing €7m

Trial to open in Nice of Thierry Fialek-Birles, accused of an ‘elaborate fraud’ against the actor and director Dany Boon

Derelict review – great performances turn low-budget crime drama into diamond in the rough

Despite threadbare resources, actors Suzanne Fulton and Michael Coombes elevate this film about a woman hoping to avenge her father’s violent death

Will Smith review – post-slap tour has shoutalongs, self-help sermons and a touch of David Brent

His most recent album may have tanked but it works better played live, and Smith is endearing as he continues to get jiggy with it

From Frankenstein to Putin, monsters are stalking the Venice film festival

Artistic director says monsters are ‘fil rouge’ this year, as Guillermo del Toro unveils his vision of Shelley’s classic

Measures for a Funeral review – virtuosic classical music drama is like a Tár companion piece

The latest collaboration between director Sofia Bohdanowicz and actor Deragh Campbell focusses on the power of art to sustain our emotional lives

‘It’s his superpower’: story of autistic boxer who trained in garden shed to become film

The journey of Billy Long Jr hit close to home for Nick Moorcroft, who is now writing the script for a film that will begin shooting next year

A Life in Tandem review – bicycling cancer survivor brings family issues along for the ride

Bristolian Luke Grenfell-Shaw decided to ride from Bristol to Beijing when he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer – which makes for a good story but a rather annoying film

The Occupant review – air crash survival thriller gets Rob Delaney’s voice for company

Ella Balinska is excellent alongside Delaney’s disembodied voice, but it’s a shame the film isn’t as sharply sketched as they are

Kleptomania, family feuds and Europe’s tallest dam: the strange story of Jean-Luc Godard’s debut film

In desperation at his antisocial behaviour, the mother of the French new wave pioneer sent him to work in ‘purgatory’. It was to inspire Operation Concrete, Godard’s only documentary

Woody Allen rebuts Ukrainian condemnation over Moscow film festival appearance

The director said he did not ‘feel cutting off artistic conversations is ever a good way to help’ after Ukraine calls the film-maker’s participation a ‘disgrace’

The Roses review – dieback blights Colman and Cumberbatch remake

Both British actors are let down by the overly glossy, romcom-y sheen of this update of Warren Adler’s 1980s novel about a spectacularly toxic marriage

‘Overwhelming and sublime’: the primal power of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s cinematic art

The Cannes-winning film-maker’s latest work, created specially for Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, is a tribute to his obsession with the magic of light and shadow

Can Netflix find your new favourite watch based on your star sign?

The streamer has launched a new tool it claims can predict which film or show you’re going to love based on astrology

Amanyanabo: The Eagle King review – a lavish Nollywood epic of crowns, gods and colonial tension

This visually stunning historical drama follows the rise of warrior-king Ibanichuka and combines dazzling pageantry with themes of power, faith and empire

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  • ‘A movie star turn of the highest calibre’: we were wrong about Mother! – and Jennifer Lawrence
  • The French film star, the fake Irish aristocrat and the missing €7m
  • Derelict review – great performances turn low-budget crime drama into diamond in the rough
  • Will Smith review – post-slap tour has shoutalongs, self-help sermons and a touch of David Brent
  • From Frankenstein to Putin, monsters are stalking the Venice film festival
  • Measures for a Funeral review – virtuosic classical music drama is like a Tár companion piece
  • ‘It’s his superpower’: story of autistic boxer who trained in garden shed to become film
  • A Life in Tandem review – bicycling cancer survivor brings family issues along for the ride
  • The Occupant review – air crash survival thriller gets Rob Delaney’s voice for company
  • Kleptomania, family feuds and Europe’s tallest dam: the strange story of Jean-Luc Godard’s debut film
  • Woody Allen rebuts Ukrainian condemnation over Moscow film festival appearance
  • The Roses review – dieback blights Colman and Cumberbatch remake
  • ‘Overwhelming and sublime’: the primal power of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s cinematic art
  • Can Netflix find your new favourite watch based on your star sign?
  • Amanyanabo: The Eagle King review – a lavish Nollywood epic of crowns, gods and colonial tension
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  • Among the Palms the Bomb review – the enviromental scars left behind by the US’s atom-blast testing
  • Spinal Tap II, Julia Roberts and Paul Thomas Anderson: the best films of autumn 2025
  • Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing review – candy-haired popsters put on a show
  • Joe Caroff obituary
  • Composer John Williams says he ‘never liked film music very much’
  • Y2K fashion and vinyl grooves: meet Abidjan’s young guardians of nostalgia
  • ‘Reminded me of Agatha Christie’: the shocking true story behind Ron Howard’s Eden
  • Tim Key: ‘I imagine Alan Partridge smells lightly of Brut aftershave’
  • Criminally good: the return of the high-class crime flick
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  • The Guide #205: In an age of streaming clutter, why not rediscover Britain’s rich documentary past?
  • ‘New Noel Clarkes will surface’ without change in film and TV, say female witnesses
  • Eddington to Deftones: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • Obsession, blackmail and Instagram: inside Lurker, the year’s most compelling thriller

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