Novocaine review – Jack Quaid is put through the grinder in ultraviolent action comedy
A man’s inability to feel pain comes in handy in this extravagantly gory bank heist caper
‘Drawings do not lie’: film-maker Michel Hazanavicius on his animated feature about the Holocaust
The Oscar‑winning director of The Artist spent five years creating The Most Precious of Cargoes. He talks about why he would never have made it as a live action movie
A Working Man review – Jason Statham puts the hours in, to no avail
The actor dons a hard hat for more knuckle-dusting mayhem but is let down by David Ayer’s portentous direction
The Woman in the Yard review – uncanny chiller loses its way
A mysterious woman gradually advances on a widow’s isolated home in Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra’s creepy latest
La Cocina review – Rooney Mara stars in overstuffed New York kitchen drama
The frenetic action is beautifully choreographed, but Alonso Ruizpalacios’s take on Arnold Wesker’s 1957 play The Kitchen feels stagey
The week in theatre: The Women of Llanrumney; North By Northwest – review
Azuka Oforka’s bold, ambitious play confronts the horrors of slavery, while Emma Rice takes on Hitchcock’s classic, sidelining suspense but springing surprises
‘It’s soul-destroying’: actors’ fury over the rise of self-tape auditions
Equity union says filming audition scenes at home amounts to unpaid labour and reinforces elitism
Visions of America: 25 films to help understand the US today
From The Apprentice to 13th, our critic selects titles that shed light on the US under Trump
The End review – post-apocalyptic musical with Tilda Swinton is catastrophically self-indulgent
In their luxury bunker, the ultra-wealthy last survivors of a global disaster break into song – to sometimes painful effect – in Joshua Oppenheimer’s bloated if visually stunning debut fiction feature
‘I go for the jugular’: Carrie Coon on The White Lotus, female friendship and toxic politics
Fearsomely authentic, Carrie Coon has dazzled in a host of roles, from The Leftovers to Gone Girl and Fargo. With the latest season of The White Lotus glueing us to our screens, she talks about US politics, freedom and finding her voice
Pedro Almodóvar’s image crisis, 1994
Has the clown prince of Europe lost his sense of humour, both in his life and in his art?
From Hollywood’s goofy stoner to serious satire: the reinvention of Seth Rogen
The former manchild’s performance as an industry suit in new series The Studio shows how far he has come in Hollywood
Misericordia review – desire and dread in rural France
A young man’s village homecoming arouses enigmatic passions in this intriguing mystery from the director of Stranger By the Lake
From campus to police state: a new documentary goes inside the Columbia university protests
The Encampments embeds with pro-Palestinian protesters, including Mahmoud Khalil, as they demand divestment from weapons manufacturers
War Paint – Women at War review – female war artists get their moment in the spotlight
From quilting in Japanese prisoner camps to graffiti in Sudan via Rachel Whiteread, Maggi Hambling and Lee Miller, this documentary covers myriad artistic responses to conflict