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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

My unexpected Pride icon: Jurassic Park’s strutting, swaggering T rex is pure camp

From Jeff Goldblum’s unbuttoned shirt to the dilophosaurus wobbling her wattles, the film is an enduring queer staple

‘People didn’t like women in space’: how Sally Ride made history and paid the price

Ride was the first US woman in space – but a National Geographic documentary looks at how she was forced to hide her queerness to succeed

Malala and Kiran faced violence, threats and shame. Now their fathers want ‘all men to stand with women’

Defying threats and ostracism, they both fought fiercely for their daughters’ rights. Now a film features them discussing fatherhood, courage, gender justice and strong girls

Dumb and Dumber To or Idiocracy? What to watch instead of Trump’s big boy birthday party

A helpful list of films to watch other than Donald Trump’s birthday parade – from a dystopian thriller to a terrible sequel to a prophetic cult hit

‘The city is being hollowed out’: the billionaire landlord locked in a David v Goliath battle for London’s West End

Dubbed ‘Britain’s meanest landlord’, Asif Aziz is fighting it out with a tiny cinema that counts Christopher Nolan, Paul Mescal and other Hollywood heroes as fans. How did the capital’s cultural landmarks end up under the thumb of the super-rich elite?

How to Train Your Dragon to Neil Young: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

The kids’ animation gets a sprightly live-action remake, and rock’s angriest elder statesman returns with a new album and backing band

‘The risk was worth it’: All Fours author Miranda July on sex, power and giving women permission to blow up their lives

The artist and author’s hit book had so much in common with her own life that even her friends forgot it wasn’t real. How did this revolutionary portrayal of midlife desire come to inspire a generation of women?

Dangerous Animals review – serial killer meets shark movie in this formulaic fizzer

Jai Courtney eats up his role as the crazed captain of a tourist boat – but he can’t quite wrestle this creature feature from its straitjacket

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  • Al Pacino becomes first film star to meet Pope Leo XIV
  • My unexpected Pride icon: as a bullied teenager, I found safety in slasher films
  • Red Path review – Tunisian drama tells traumatic story of Islamic State’s horrific cruelty
  • Last Resort review – Jon Foo’s former soldier kicks try-hard butt in Die Hard knock-off
  • ‘Always something I can watch’: why Spotlight is my feelgood movie
  • Avant-Drag! review – queer artists light up the streets of Athens with joy and resistance
  • The Triptych of Mondongo review – one part art documentary, two parts directorial megalomania
  • My unexpected Pride icon: Jurassic Park’s strutting, swaggering T rex is pure camp
  • ‘People didn’t like women in space’: how Sally Ride made history and paid the price
  • Malala and Kiran faced violence, threats and shame. Now their fathers want ‘all men to stand with women’
  • Dumb and Dumber To or Idiocracy? What to watch instead of Trump’s big boy birthday party
  • ‘The city is being hollowed out’: the billionaire landlord locked in a David v Goliath battle for London’s West End
  • How to Train Your Dragon to Neil Young: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • ‘The risk was worth it’: All Fours author Miranda July on sex, power and giving women permission to blow up their lives
  • Dangerous Animals review – serial killer meets shark movie in this formulaic fizzer
  • Heroic indifference: was Thunderbolts* always doomed at the box office?
  • My unexpected Pride icon: Free Willy helped me see the radical power of coming out
  • Post your questions for Eric Idle
  • Echo Valley to Joker: Folie à Deux – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • ‘Completely captivated’: the rousing return of musicals’ dream ballets
  • Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story review – dazzling glamour and true grit
  • ‘I’m not The Rock, right?’ Julianne Moore on action movies, appropriate parenting and twinning with Tilda Swinton
  • Mel Brooks to reprise role in Spaceballs sequel
  • Taina Elg obituary
  • ‘It was simply mind-blowing’: readers remember seeing Star Wars for the first time
  • Guardian writers on their ultimate feelgood movies: ‘Radical in its own way’
  • ‘Chaps frame the buttocks in a beautiful way’: John C Reilly on Magnolia, moving into music – and his nice bum
  • Kate Beckinsale sues producers of thriller Canary Black over ‘unsafe conditions’
  • Puppies, ghosts and euphoric snogging: the 25 best queer films of the century so far
  • Cal review – grieving Helen Mirren superb in compassionate Troubles romance

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