Cover-Up review – Laura Poitras’s Seymour Hersh documentary is a thrilling ode to journalism
The acclaimed documentarian follows up All the Beauty and the Bloodshed with another smart and impeccably structured winner
Maintenance Required review – Amazon’s synthetic You’ve Got Mail rip-off
The beats of the 1998 romcom, which was itself a re-imagining of The Shop Around the Corner, are shamelessly regurgitated for this charmless copycat
Saoirse Ronan to reportedly play Linda McCartney in Beatles biopic
Oscar-nominated actor rumoured to play Paul McCartney’s first wife opposite Paul Mescal in Sam Mendes set of movies
The Travellers review – sentiment smothers Bruce Beresford’s heartfelt film
Bryan Brown, Luke Bracey and Susie Porter give great performances in this story about a theatre-maker returning home to Australia from Europe to farewell his dying mother
Inspired and emotional: why a drunk Ray Winstone was exactly what the Star Wars prequels needed
The Sexy Beast star has said he was under the influence when he auditioned – unsuccessfully – for Attack of the Clones. George Lucas really missed a trick
Paris 75 review – passionate fans-eye view reanimates tales of the 70s Leeds United golden years
Revisiting forgotten storms over Leeds’ European cup final defeat 50 years on, this unashamedly partisan take unearths a lost era of team loyalty
How the Guardian’s new film quiz turned this puzzle fan into a question setter
As a devoted puzzler and movie buff, Anne Billson jumped at the chance to compile questions for our new quiz – but keeping them the right side of fiendish was not simple
Grow review – polished pumpkin growing caper stuffed with perky charm and comedy talent
Featuring the likes of Nick Frost, Jane Horrocks and Golda Rosheuvel, this family heartwarmer makes for perfectly serviceable seasonal fare
The Future of Truth by Werner Herzog review – profound, or just a prank?
The director’s provocative seventh book takes in toupees, AI and a pig in a sewer. Should we take him seriously?
A Want in Her review – daughter’s searing portrait of family addiction and mental illness
Film-maker Myrid Carten exposes her relationship with her mother – who has both bipolar disorder and alcoholism – in this painful but powerful documentary
Rosie O’Donnell: ‘Meat Loaf’s mother wrote me and said, “You can’t be mean to my son”’
The beloved host and comedian on blubbering fans, scary kangaroos, her favourite Irish person and the strangest job she has ever had
Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World review – a narrow view of beauty from a borderline stalker
The ‘King of Vogue’ was a desperate social climber and the world on view here seems constricted and parochial. Still, his backdrops are fabulous – usually more interesting than his subjects
Marc Maron is the rare comedian who shows us how it should be done
In a new documentary and as his WTF podcast ends, the US comic has shown a level of integrity and perspective that many of his peers could learn from
Tron: Ares review – even Gillian Anderson can’t slap this mind-bendingly dull sci-fi into shape
Pointless threequel delivers a leaden cameo from a white-robed Jeff Bridges and an irritating turn from Jared Leto as a hipster-haired humanoid
Ken Jacobs, luminary of New York underground film culture, dies aged 92
Experimental film-maker’s works included Little Stabs at Happiness, Blonde Cobra and Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son