Girls on Wire review – Chinese behind-the-scenes stunt drama is a spectacle
A stunt double who plays roof-bouncing ninjas before the lead steps in for the closeup is stuck in a family/mob triangle in Vivian Qu’s occasionally silly thriller
The Ice Tower review – Marion Cotillard focus of obsession and idolisation in death-wish fairytale
Cotillard plays a movie actor starring in a production of The Snow Queen in Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s unwholesome story of yearning
Dreams review – Jessica Chastain channels rich Americans whose charity comes with strings
The erotic reward for Chastain’s sponsorship of a Mexican dancer lights a fuse that reveals philanthropy’s toxic underside
Mickey 17 review – Robert Pattinson proves expendable in Bong Joon-ho’s eerily cheery cloning drama
The Parasite director delivers an intriguing yet baffling sci-fi epic, featuring panto gnashing bad guys played by Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette
Ari review – a French primary teacher flunks out in daydreaming misfire
The promising French director Leonore Serraille delivers a dud with this undercooked story of a selfish drifter who was once a talented educator and now can’t teach for toffee
Hot Milk review – Fiona Shaw a fierce fly in simmering erotic soup
A cantankerous Shaw undercuts her daughter’s summer sexual awakening in this interestingly elusive adaptation of Deborah Levy’s novel
Tilda Swinton decries ‘internationally enabled mass murder’ at Berlin film festival
Actor speaks out against ‘the unacceptable complacency of our greed-addicted governments’ as she picks up a Golden Bear award for lifetime achievement
Film in Europe is booming, but the gongs and glamour only tell one side of the story
The Berlinale opens today to an industry thriving on EU funds. But where is the money going – and are audiences benefiting too? asks film critic Moritz Pfeifer
The trans film-maker who remade Batman: ‘There’s a reason all the heroes are queer, mentally ill villains’
Vera Drew’s award-winning new film imagines Batman as a boy-grooming baddie and the Joker as a transgender clown – a hectic riposte to the idea that woke killed the joke
Has the Sundance film festival lost its mojo?
Underwhelming films and some disinterested buyers left many wondering what’s next for the Utah-based festival
Lurker review – deviously entertaining Hollywood hanger-on thriller
A desperate wannabe attaches himself to a singer on the rise in a darkly compelling breakout from Alex Russell, writer for Beef and The Bear
Tony Langlois obituary
Other lives: Ethnomusicologist and festival founder who was an active member of the sound-art community in Cork
‘He’s going home’: new film documents the fight to free Leonard Peltier
Sundance’s Free Leonard Peltier outlines the decades-long efforts to free the Indigenous activist from prison – up to the commutation of his sentence one week before the premiere
Opus review – John Malkovich plays an evil pop star in a silly horror dud
The cult of celebrity is targeted in a progressively nonsensical and poorly made debut starring Ayo Edebiri
Sorry, Baby review – a warm, bitingly funny refocus of the trauma plot
In her feature debut, writer-director Eva Victor depicts the aftermath of sexual assault with striking naturalism and surprising grace