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Reanimated AI Greta Garbo stars again … in a ball-bearing advert

Relatives of Hollywood legend say her doppelganger could now be used for more glamorous roles

SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future

Swedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI

Patricio Guzmán obituary

Chilean film-maker whose trilogy on Augusto Pinochet’s coup brought him to international attention

Digger review – Tom Cruise’s loudmouth oil tycoon goes hard in Alejandro G Iñárritu’s eco-satire

One man’s irresponsible drilling causes a global crisis in Iñárritu’s exasperatingly laborious, self-congratulatory film

Child review – jump scares abound in twisty organ transplant fable that keeps horror at its heart

This Luxembourg-made movie about a couple who venture east to save their son features some impressive film-making

The Portuguese House review – picturesque, polite drama of secrets and revelations at a country estate

Spanish drama about people leaving their old lives behind plays out like a literary novel, with Manolo Solo excellent as a discombobulated gardener

April X review – Connor Storrie searches for missing twin in dystopian dream-tech sci-fi thriller

The star of Heated Rivalry does his best in this in this human-trafficking yarn, which gets progressively ickier and more exploitative

Century-old silent film made in New Hampshire found in Japan antique shop

Billy Van’s 1919 comedy Van-ar-chy found by student in Sendai will be shown in early November in New Hampshire

Gen Z has very strong opinions about age-gap relationships – and it could be right

Older men and younger women were once an unremarkable screen pairing. But watching them with a new generation is a real education, writes Zoe Williams

Pandora’s Legacy review – fascinating profile of silent film legend GW Pabst

Through intimate letters and family interviews, this probing documentary about the Austrian film-maker reveals a complicated figure

Crushed review – Steve Oram is priestly lead in harrowing Bangkok-set child-abduction thriller

A priest investigates his daughter’s kidnapping in Thailand in this Paul Schrader-esque inquiry into spiritual nihilism

‘Should have garnered the actor an Oscar’: why Liar Liar is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to the films they watch when they need a lift is an appreciation of Jim Carrey’s manic 90s comedy

Just Play Dead review – Samuel L Jackson and Eva Green punch up switchback crime caper

Jackson and Green just about manage to distract viewers from the sub-par Tarantinoesque flourishes, confusing plot points and tired stereotypes

Kikuyu Land review – the colonial-era misery behind our morning cup of tea

The impact of colonial then corporate agricultural development is unravelled in a sobering documentary that takes a dramatic turn when a family secret is discovered

‘We could have had good fun a few decades ago’: Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant on sex scenes, parties and theatre

The actors are working together for the first time ever, in Noël Coward’s comedy Hay Fever. Backstage, there’s no stopping their tales of skinny-dipping, fat-shaming and warring co-stars

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  • Reanimated AI Greta Garbo stars again … in a ball-bearing advert
  • SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future
  • Patricio Guzmán obituary
  • Digger review – Tom Cruise’s loudmouth oil tycoon goes hard in Alejandro G Iñárritu’s eco-satire
  • Child review – jump scares abound in twisty organ transplant fable that keeps horror at its heart
  • The Portuguese House review – picturesque, polite drama of secrets and revelations at a country estate
  • April X review – Connor Storrie searches for missing twin in dystopian dream-tech sci-fi thriller
  • Century-old silent film made in New Hampshire found in Japan antique shop
  • Gen Z has very strong opinions about age-gap relationships – and it could be right
  • Pandora’s Legacy review – fascinating profile of silent film legend GW Pabst
  • Crushed review – Steve Oram is priestly lead in harrowing Bangkok-set child-abduction thriller
  • ‘Should have garnered the actor an Oscar’: why Liar Liar is my feelgood movie
  • Just Play Dead review – Samuel L Jackson and Eva Green punch up switchback crime caper
  • Kikuyu Land review – the colonial-era misery behind our morning cup of tea
  • ‘We could have had good fun a few decades ago’: Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant on sex scenes, parties and theatre
  • Rapper and actor Eve looks back: ‘I was the only girl in the boardroom in major label meetings – that Philly girl had to come out’
  • ‘A joyful place’: a new museum coaxes Austrians to embrace The Sound of Music
  • NAZA film-makers address threats at documentary’s New York City premiere
  • Godzilla Minus Zero review – spectacular Japanese action continues franchise’s winning streak
  • From Sense and Sensibility to Kill Jackie: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • Always a joker: Magda Szubanski reveals Heath Ledger asked to play her stalker on Kath and Kim
  • ‘In our deepest hearts we are voyeurs’: the paedophile-hunting show that inspired Robert Pattinson’s new film
  • Meryl Streep’s casting as Aslan has angered the Christian right. Don’t they have more pressing issues?
  • ‘She never accepted no’: Liam Neeson on dogged heroine behind Tuam mass baby grave film
  • My dad was a monster! Sara Karloff on reviving Frankenstein, 95 years on
  • Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder arrested at anti-Netanyahu protest in New York
  • ‘Cracking auction, Gromit!’ Original Aardman puppets go under the hammer
  • Bob Mackie obituary
  • ‘I get lost going to the bathroom’: John Hannah on world travel, stealing props and being ‘the Scottish Eminem’
  • Global release announced for acclaimed Gaza documentary NAZA

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