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Sense and Sensibility review – Daisy Edgar-Jones leads sober-minded next-gen do-over of Austen romcom

With Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as the Dashwood sisters, this fresh take on a beloved classic is not to be confused with Ang Lee’s

‘Being in Madness kept some of them out of jail’: how the baggy-trousered nutty boys made a guerrilla cinema classic

From a jail-inspired light sabre fight to the moment a sax-player flew, Take It or Leave It brilliantly captured the band’s grimy origins. Will the film’s return see it finally honoured as a music movie landmark?

The Seasons review – Portuguese pastoral offers poetic excavation of myth and mapping

The rugged roads and lush vegetation of southern Portugal are showcased in this weaving-together of disparate threads of history and landscape

Heart of the action: why organ couriers are cinema’s new heroes

Whether its a nod to frontline Covid heroes or a return to biology in a world of digital noise, there’s a rich vein of new films featuring organ deliveries, including Runner and the latest Resident Evil

‘Still feel a jolt of joy’: why Dirty Dancing is my feelgood movie

The latest in our ongoing series of writers highlighting their most rewatched comfort films remembers a 1987 teenage girl classic

Rising Up at Night review – community spirit shines bright in Kinshasa’s shadows

Religion and collective resilience are beacons of hope in an electricity-deprived DRC in this otherworldly documentary debut

Legend of the White Dragon review – Power Rangers alumni back for more in low-budget superhero retread

Simple but emphatic martial arts and a couple of classy cameos are all that give this blandly modern action film a fighting chance

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

John Wilson on his unlikely concrete movie: ‘There might be a kind of sickness in shooting things this way’

The creator of How To with John Wilson has returned with his first film, a documentary about how to sell a documentary about concrete

‘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

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  • Sense and Sensibility review – Daisy Edgar-Jones leads sober-minded next-gen do-over of Austen romcom
  • ‘Being in Madness kept some of them out of jail’: how the baggy-trousered nutty boys made a guerrilla cinema classic
  • The Seasons review – Portuguese pastoral offers poetic excavation of myth and mapping
  • Heart of the action: why organ couriers are cinema’s new heroes
  • ‘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
  • 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
  • John Wilson on his unlikely concrete movie: ‘There might be a kind of sickness in shooting things this way’
  • ‘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
  • Watching NAZA was like peering through a window – and seeing the machinery of killing in Gaza
  • 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

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