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
Partir Un Jour (Leave One Day) review – foodie musical is an undercooked turkey
Dreadful songs add no flavour to dreary tale of a big-city gourmet returning to her home-cooked roots
Nonnas review – fact-based Netflix restaurant comedy is a warm surprise
Vince Vaughn plays a grieving son who decides to open an Italian eaterie with grandmothers in the kitchen in a simple but charming crowd-pleaser
Summer of 69 review – charming, if overfamiliar, teen sex comedy
Awkward teenager strikes deal with stripper played by SNL’s Chloe Fineman in moderately entertaining throwback
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
Two to One review – East Berlin cash scam capers through ruins of communism
The discovery of a cache of ostmarks, just before German reunification makes them worthless, sets off a madcap tale from Natja Brunckhorst
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
Mountainhead: first trailer for Jesse Armstrong’s topical Succession follow-up
Billionaires, starring Steve Carell and Ramy Youssef, meet amid an international crisis in HBO’s of-the-moment satire
‘Aspirational in the silliest sense’: why The Lizzie McGuire Movie is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series of writers calling attention to their comfort watches is a look back at the frothy 2003 comedy
Alicia Silverstone to reprise Clueless role in sequel TV series
The actor will return for a follow-up series on Peacock rejoining the life of Cher Horowitz from the hit 1995 comedy
The Wedding Banquet review – muddled gay comedy remake plays it too straight
Fire Island director Andrew Ahn’s update of Ang Lee’s seminal 1993 film works hard to differentiate itself but it’s awkwardly stuck between serious and silly
The Penguin Lessons review – Steve Coogan seabird comedy drama tries to sell feelgood mood
Coogan does his best, but there’s a tonal mismatch here: the animal-teaches-lonely-human narrative jars with a depiction of lives in totalitarian Argentina
Chosen Family review – fluid directing by Heather Graham ballasts enjoyable romcom
Graham denounces her toxic family and begins a new relationship, before discovering her beau’s preteen daughter to be a tiny psychopath in a tutu
‘Beautifully, awfully funny’: why Withnail and I is my feelgood movie
The latest in our ongoing series of comfort movies is a pick for Bruce Robinson’s cult British comedy