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La Bola Negra wins Toronto film festival people’s choice award

The queer period drama wins Oscar-predicting award, being named the most popular audience film at the festival

Readers reply: what would be the most useful superpower?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

‘Resident Evil movies? I’ve never seen one’: Weapons director Zach Cregger on resurrecting the beloved zombie franchise

Raised on punk, alt-comedy and the church, Cregger’s Lynchian approach to horror is anything but typical. After two wildly original hits, his pivot to a 30-year-old video game has caused a storm among protective fans

Hunk – or ‘unc’? What magazine covers of Michael B Jordan and Tom Cruise tell us about manhood

Images of two actors on front of Vogue and GQ land at a time when masculinity is increasingly dominating headlines

‘It’s almost impossible not to feel inspired’: how the story of Terry Fox fired up Canada’s patriotic spirit again

Canada’s citizens are finding unity again in the story of the man who ran cross-country on one leg to raise awareness for cancer research

‘He’s simply astonishing’: will Andrew Scott become the first out gay man to win the best actor Oscar?

The Irishman seems a dead cert for his performance as Ian Charleson in Elsinore. And his ability to avoid being pigeonholed while embracing queer stories, from Pride to All of Us Strangers, is a remarkable achievement

From Shaun the Sheep to The Split Up: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Aardman’s woolly hero reckons with a mysterious beast and Abi Morgan’s lawyers-in-love TV drama gets a Manchester-set reboot

From ovations in Venice to death threats in Israel: the extreme responses to NAZA documentary

As Gaza documentary wins cinematic acclaim, its directors face vitriol in Israel amid a febrile election campaign

Letter to Brezhnev review – terrific return for Merseysiders’ romance with Russian sailors

Ellie Clayton and Angela Simms are superb in a funny, passionate yet still tender adaptation that hugs close to the 1985 film

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  • ‘Still feel a jolt of joy’: why Dirty Dancing is my feelgood movie
  • ‘Still feel a jolt of joy’: why Dirty Dancing is my feelgood movie
  • Rising Up at Night review – community spirit shines bright in Kinshasa’s shadows
  • Rising Up at Night review – community spirit shines bright in Kinshasa’s shadows
  • Legend of the White Dragon review – Power Rangers alumni back for more in low-budget superhero retread
  • Legend of the White Dragon review – Power Rangers alumni back for more in low-budget superhero retread
  • La Bola Negra wins Toronto film festival people’s choice award
  • Readers reply: what would be the most useful superpower?
  • ‘Resident Evil movies? I’ve never seen one’: Weapons director Zach Cregger on resurrecting the beloved zombie franchise
  • Hunk – or ‘unc’? What magazine covers of Michael B Jordan and Tom Cruise tell us about manhood
  • ‘It’s almost impossible not to feel inspired’: how the story of Terry Fox fired up Canada’s patriotic spirit again
  • ‘He’s simply astonishing’: will Andrew Scott become the first out gay man to win the best actor Oscar?
  • From Shaun the Sheep to The Split Up: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • From ovations in Venice to death threats in Israel: the extreme responses to NAZA documentary
  • Letter to Brezhnev review – terrific return for Merseysiders’ romance with Russian sailors
  • The Guardian view on NAZA’s persecuted directors: journalism is not treason
  • ‘The man’s a psychopath when it comes to hedgerows’: Derek vs Derek, the unexpectedly heartwarming doc about farmers at war
  • Zack Snyder is angling to make another Batman movie. Stranger things have happened
  • Iranian actor Laleh Marzban faces severe threats after Venice film festival speech
  • Toy Story 5 to Hamlet: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? review – Jarvis Cocker’s wit and warmth upstage the hits
  • Best of the Best review – college comedy formula gets a Bollywood makeover
  • ‘The damage was much worse than I had imagined’: the shocking inside story of Salman Rushdie’s survival
  • Queen at Sea review – crushingly sad dementia drama offers a startling portrait of intimacy
  • 50 Years of Punk review – rock’n’roll rebels fondly recall the filth and fury a half-century on
  • Human harps, massive bananas and dogging: the 20 best Busby Berkeley dance routines – ranked!
  • Thelma & Louise review – musical hoedown is a bland and baffling wrong turn
  • Why stop at Wuthering Heights: House of the Damned? Bring on Mrs Dalloway’s Rampage!
  • ‘We live with a big burden’: survivor of abusive Spotlight priest hopes clergyman’s death brings closure
  • De Gaulle: Liberté review – biopic of conquering French war hero reaches his imperial era

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