Friendship review – Tim Robinson spirals in a darkly hilarious comedy
The star of I Think You Should Leave brings a similar brand of comedy to this strange and genuinely funny film about a friendship breakup
‘Carers need care, too’: Bruce Willis’s wife speaks out after deaths of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa
Emma Heming Willis, who is primary carer for the actor since his dementia diagnosis in 2023, says there is ‘a broader story’ to tell about their plight
In the Lost Lands review – not much to find in pointless science-fantasy
George RR Martin story flabbily retold in a dreary postapocalypse where Milla Jovovich has few spells to cast as a witch for hire
‘I’m all for strange’: Sister Midnight’s Karan Kandhari on his punk rock debut, two decades in the making
The director talks about his genre-trampling film Sister Midnight, the hilarious and gory story of a female force of nature stifled in an arranged marriage
Sister Midnight review – Mumbai-set comic horror finds the terror in arranged marriage
Radhika Apte is terrific as a woman preparing to settle down with a shiftless husband she barely knows when her world goes awry
‘I never thought about Oscars’: Brutalist composer Daniel Blumberg on the happiness and horror of his big win
The defiantly anti-commercial musician had walked away from mainstream success twice by his early 20s. Will his Academy Award convince him to embrace Hollywood, celebrity, the big bucks?
The Rule of Jenny Pen review – John Lithgow pulls the strings in care home horror
Geoffrey Rush’s retired judge is terrorised by Lithgow’s therapy puppet-wielding fellow resident in this claustrophobic tale of elder-on-elder abuse
A Touch of Love review – Margaret Drabble’s single-mother drama is a vivid 60s time capsule
This Drabble adaptation about a PhD student who gets pregnant is kitchen-sinky but without humour or even awareness. It’s an interesting curio
Tim Miller obituary
Other lives: Film-maker who became a probation officer and helped start Centrepoint and Private Eye
The Rivals of Amziah King review – Matthew McConaughey returns with unwieldy misstep
The Oscar-winner’s first film role for six years shows his undeniable magnetism but squanders it on a baggy mix of tones and genres
Novocaine review – throwaway one-joke action comedy brings the pain
Jack Quaid is a charming lead as a man who can’t feel pain but this high-concept caper brings low-level enjoyment
DoJ official says she was fired after refusing to restore Mel Gibson’s gun rights
Elizabeth Oyer claims justice department senior ‘bullied’ her due to Trump’s relationship with actor sentenced for domestic violence in 2011
The Beguiled: 1971 Clint Eastwood film is a sweaty, southern hothouse
Before Sofia Coppola’s 2017 remake came Eastwood’s portrayal of a Union soldier taken in by an all-girls school. It’s an all-time scumbag performance
Oh My Goodness! review – bike-racing nuns go for the prize in freewheeling clerical comedy
Silly French comedy pits one convent against another in a contest that could fund a trip to Rome but won’t raise many laughs
Having a bawl: why Avatar 3 will reduce you to a sobbing husk (just ask James Cameron’s wife)
Cameron is pulling out all the stops to promote Avatar: Fire and Ash, by telling the world that it reduced Suzy Amis Cameron to tears for four hours