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The Seven Year Itch at 70: a comedy about infidelity ruined by the Hays code

Marilyn Monroe is incandescent in Billy Wilder’s comedy about a tempted married man, but it’s a film hampered by restrictions of the time

WTF with Marc Maron is ending. Here are five of the podcast’s best interviews

After nearly 16 years the veteran standup comic is calling time on the show that redefined podcasting

Three Friends review – charm aplenty in super-tasteful comedy that couldn’t be more French

All the typecast antics, such as having extramarital affairs, discussing feelings in depth and the occasional theatrical shrug are here in this typically bourgeois ensemble piece

From Van Gogh to Superman: Keep cool with our guide to the summer’s best arts and entertainment

From a very hungry crocodile to some equally famished zombies, a superstar Compton rapper to a Smallville superhero: our critics choose the eye-opening arts events that will dazzle you over the next few months

Demi Adejuyigbe: ‘Everything I do is because of my love for Ocean’s Eleven’

The comedian and TV writer on a cringeworthy moment with Charli xcx, his viral September videos and why we should forgive Don Cheadle’s cockney accent

Ariana Grande to join original cast in Meet the Parents sequel

Oscar-nominated star of Wicked will join Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller in the fourth film in the hit comedy franchise

Darling review – Julie Christie’s romantic satire of swinging 60s has a terrific punch

Christie won an Oscar for her role in John Schlesinger’s film as an insouciant model caught between two lovers at the height of London’s fashion scene

The Venus Effect review – a sizzling queer romcom without the cliches

A funny, heart-on-sleeve Danish drama that cleverly captures the complexities of coming out and queer identity with a character that wonders: am I gay enough to be gay?

Mountainhead review – tech bros face off in Jesse Armstrong’s post-Succession uber-wealth satire

Weapons-grade zingers come thick and fast in this chamber piece about four plutocrats on a weekend in a lodge that goes awry when the planet descends into chaos

Bob Trevino Likes It review – Barbie Ferreira lovebombs us all in quirk-fuelled comedy

Ferreira is charm personified in this drama about a young woman who becomes friends with a man who has the same name as her louse of a father

‘Greatest teen movie ever’: why Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging is my feelgood movie

The latest in an ongoing series of writers highlighting their go-to mood-lifting movies looks back at the 2008 Eastbourne-set teen comedy

Nouvelle Vague – Richard Linklater bends the knee to Breathless and Jean-Luc Godard

Linklater recreates the making of the landmark French New Wave classic with an awestruck tastefulness that smooths over any disruptiveness

The Empire Strips Back review – Chewie gets jiggy in galactic burlesque parody

Humour abounds in this Star Wars-themed cabaret, as Boba Fett bumps and grinds while Han Solo and Chewbacca share a Backstreet Boys number

Freakier Friday cast and crew criticise ‘hurtful’ Asian stereotypes in 2003 film

Director Nisha Ganatra said she felt they ‘owed audiences to make it right’ in the new film

Monty Python and the Holy Grail at 50: a hilarious comic peak

The endlessly quoted 1975 comedy remains both a clear product of its era and a timelessly funny masterwork

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