Forever Is Now review – political study of former Irish Green leader is like The Thick of It but with morals

Eamon Ryan is shown to be principled, likable and hard working in a glowing portrait, filmed while serving in the country’s coalition government

It’s My Time review – Michelle Yeoh excels in Rocky-style quest to be Rubik’s Cube champ

True story about a former maths teacher who became a puzzle champion in retirement is squeezed into predictable sports-movie formula

Mag Mag review – giant female ghost loves people to death in Japanese comedy-horror

Sara Minami gives a wonderfully crazed performance in a twisted, fresh take on the genre as Yuriyan Retriever’s debut feature examines infatuation, bullying and beauty norms

Stephen Shears obituary

Other lives: Piano tuner and restorer who also played keyboards on the West Country folk dancing circuit

George Fenton obituary

Versatile composer of music in a variety of styles for stage, TV and film whose theme for Newsnight was first heard in 1980

Alex Gibney says Universal ‘wavered’ over releasing Elon Musk documentary

The revelation comes after the four-hour film’s Venice premiere drew a string of criticisms and insults from the founder of SpaceXAI

NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film’s interviewees

Israeli PM calls for criminal investigation into soldiers and officers interviewed in Guardian-produced documentary

Digger on course for $245m loss after box office collapse

Estimates suggest the eco satire starring Tom Cruise could join the list of top turkeys, including Cutthroat Island and The Marvels

The Influencer Project review – ick-inducing thriller satirises social media content, and exploits it too

When influencer/singer/content creator Chiara King visits Copenhagen all the trips to trendy shops and fancy restaurants soon take a turn for the worse

Mort à la révolution! Why UK film loves a failed rebellion

Paul Greengrass’s Peasants’ Revolt epic, The Uprising, is just the latest in a long line of movies depicting an unsuccessful attempt at remaking the nation

Hallowarrior review – apocalyptic Home Alone-style survival horror delivers inventive shocks

Debut feature from Ben Sottak provides outlandish Halloween-based scares, with Milly Shapiro superb as the naive yet resilient home-defender, Pumpkin

A Fidai Film review – Palestinian collage film transforms suppressed footage into works of art

Using archive material of destroyed houses, terrorised children and dead bodies, Kamal Aljafari adds humanity to the reels by overlaying poems by Palestinian authors

Deadline review – shocking threat sends tremors through authoritarian school

Set in a dystopian private academy rife with surveillance and cut-throat competition, Kiwi Chow’s gripping drama cements his status as an important film-maker

Wildwood review – Laika’s pleasingly old fashioned stop-motion magic-forest odyssey

The makers of Coraline return with their distinctive animation style in a magical tale of a secret world of strange beasts, talking animals and evil governesses

Juliet Stevenson: ‘Do I have a nemesis? Where do we start? Putin, Musk, Trump, Erdoğan, Modi, Netanyahu’

The British actor on the genius of Bend It Like Beckham, the role she lost to Emma Thompson and why some actors get worse with age