Tom Cruise and Dolly Parton among stars set to receive honorary Oscars
The Mission: Impossible actor and country singing multi-hyphenate will be honoured alongside actor Debbie Allen and production designer Wynn Thomas
F1 the Movie review – spectacular macho melodrama handles Brad Pitt with panache
The cherubic sixtysomething stars as a supercool old-school driver returning 30 years after a near-fatal crash to break all the rules of Formula One racing
Elio review – Pixar’s goofy, giddy guide to the galaxy offers charm and vulnerability
Spielbergian twists and an aggressive, deal-oriented alien are among the familiar beats of the Inside Out animator’s latest, about a lonely boy who finds friendship in space
From the Algerian mountains to a clogged east London road: ‘Exceptional’ Jarman award nominees announced
Letters to a chestnut tree, daredevil motorcyclists, Italian bloodletting rituals … just some of the subjects covered by the experimental filmmakers on the shortlist for this year’s prestigious Film London Jarman award
I Heart Willie review – public-domain slasher turns Mickey Mouse into slicer-and-dicer
A buff, bloodthirsty mouse-man terrorises Mexican teens in the latest horror schlock made from newly expired copyright
The Phoenician Scheme is fantasy. It is also a remarkable engagement with the real-life conflict in the Middle East
Sharp edges of bitter history keep jutting through Wes Anderson’s whimsical intrigues that turn international tragedy into light comedy
A Sip of Irish review – knocking it back around the world in the diaspora of drink
Producer-director Frank Mannion follows his cordial guide to champagne with a cheerful celebration of beloved tipples of Irish origin
The Last Journey review – Sweden’s Ant and Dec hit the road with octogenarian dad
In this moving and funny documentary, Swedish TV presenters Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson try to rekindle Filip’s father’s zest for life on a road trip to France
Al Pacino becomes first film star to meet Pope Leo XIV
The actor, who is in Italy for a film about the Maserati car moguls, had an official audience with the pope alongside the film’s producer
Red Path review – Tunisian drama tells traumatic story of Islamic State’s horrific cruelty
Based on the true story of the brutal murder of a teenage shepherd, Lotfi Achour’s sombre film honestly attempts to encompass the unbearable grief suffered by the family
My unexpected Pride icon: as a bullied teenager, I found safety in slasher films
Watching mild-mannered schoolgirls overcome serial killers such as Freddy Krueger and emerge as survivors spoke to my younger self in a way no other films could
Last Resort review – Jon Foo’s former soldier kicks try-hard butt in Die Hard knock-off
Foo has to rescue his family from some very, very bad guys in this formulaic and fun-lacking man-on-a-mission thriller
‘Always something I can watch’: why Spotlight is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series of writers drawing attention to their mood-lifting favourites is a robustly made Oscar winner from 2015
Avant-Drag! review – queer artists light up the streets of Athens with joy and resistance
Drag is a tool of self-expression and of protest in this kaleidoscopic portrait of the city’s vibrant underground art
The Triptych of Mondongo review – one part art documentary, two parts directorial megalomania
What begins as a portrait of Argentinian art collective Mondongo snowballs into Mariano Llinás’s infuriatingly brilliant farrago of colour, conflict and existential crisis