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Jessie Buckley suggests film industry gives too much weight to Oscar campaigns

The actor, who won the Academy Award for best actress this year, was speaking at the BFI and Chanel film-maker awards

Gary Waddell dies aged 74: the brilliant Australian actor who turned small roles into great ones

Waddell appeared in countless films and TV shows, often as rough-as-guts characters, though he was rarely given the screen time he deserved

Winter of the Crow review – Lesley Manville magnificently on edge in intriguing cold war thriller

Manville’s academic psychologist finds herself trapped in a tower block wasteland in 1980s Warsaw. Bizarre and surreal details add to the sinister vibe

Mistura review – ice queen brings Peruvian culinary drama to a gentle simmer

Bárbara Mori stars in tepid tale of a high-society wife who opens a restaurant in her home after her husband leaves her

Wuthering Heights: The House of the Damned review – Brontë horror do-over is part Dracula, part Jeeves and Wooster

Emily Brontë’s classic is reimagined with extra stranglings, slashings and pitchfork impalings but plays it straight

Kiri and Lou Go Raaa! review – delightful origin story for CBeebies’ prehistoric pals

The pair’s first feature-length adventure stars Jemaine Clement and Olivia Tennet, has a dreamy soundtrack and beautiful stop-motion visuals – fantastic family fun

Frank and Percy review – bromance becomes romance for dog walkers Ian McKellen and Roger Allam

Ian McKellen and Roger Allam reprise their roles for the film version of Ben Weatherill’s play in a star-filled bittersweet comedy about finding love later in life

Netflix unveils first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew

The fantasy epic based on CS Lewis’s classic stars Daniel Craig, Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep

‘A tipping point of ickiness’: Welsh star Tom Rhys Harries on playing eyelid-snipping DC supervillain Clayface

He cut his teeth playing rock stars and pretty posh boys. Speaking from his LA home, the actor talks about landing his first blockbuster lead in the grisly DC horror. Will it be too shocking for comic book fans?

The Girl in the River review – forensic psychologist police procedural thriller plays like noir parody

Ralph Macchio and Tiffany Haddish feature in a ropey and implausible manhunt thriller as cops search for the missing twin of a murdered teenager

Devil in the detail: 100 years on, FW Murnau’s Faust scrapbook reveals the secrets of his silent masterpiece

A rediscovered collection of drawings and on-set photos finally reveals the intricate on-set mysteries of one of early cinema’s most gifted pioneers

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

The Social Reckoning isn’t as angry or as potent as a Facebook drama should be

Aaron Sorkin’s attempt to return to the success of The Social Network is a strangely dated and incomplete look at a world that needs a sharper eye

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

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  • Jessie Buckley suggests film industry gives too much weight to Oscar campaigns
  • Gary Waddell dies aged 74: the brilliant Australian actor who turned small roles into great ones
  • Winter of the Crow review – Lesley Manville magnificently on edge in intriguing cold war thriller
  • Mistura review – ice queen brings Peruvian culinary drama to a gentle simmer
  • Wuthering Heights: The House of the Damned review – Brontë horror do-over is part Dracula, part Jeeves and Wooster
  • Kiri and Lou Go Raaa! review – delightful origin story for CBeebies’ prehistoric pals
  • Frank and Percy review – bromance becomes romance for dog walkers Ian McKellen and Roger Allam
  • Netflix unveils first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew
  • ‘A tipping point of ickiness’: Welsh star Tom Rhys Harries on playing eyelid-snipping DC supervillain Clayface
  • The Girl in the River review – forensic psychologist police procedural thriller plays like noir parody
  • Devil in the detail: 100 years on, FW Murnau’s Faust scrapbook reveals the secrets of his silent masterpiece
  • Forever Is Now review – political study of former Irish Green leader is like The Thick of It but with morals
  • The Social Reckoning isn’t as angry or as potent as a Facebook drama should be
  • It’s My Time review – Michelle Yeoh excels in Rocky-style quest to be Rubik’s Cube champ
  • Mag Mag review – giant female ghost loves people to death in Japanese comedy-horror
  • ‘I knew I was being followed’: Keira Knightley on her hacking nightmare – and new Stasi spy play The Lives of Others
  • Selma Blair charged with assault of police officer and nurse after allegedly attacking flight attendants
  • Stephen Shears obituary
  • George Fenton obituary
  • Alex Gibney says Universal ‘wavered’ over releasing Elon Musk documentary
  • NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film’s interviewees
  • Digger on course for $245m loss after box office collapse
  • The Influencer Project review – ick-inducing thriller satirises social media content, and exploits it too
  • Mort à la révolution! Why UK film loves a failed rebellion
  • The missed opportunity of Jay-Z’s documentary series
  • The one change that worked: numb with grief, I sat in the dark, surrounded by strangers – and began to heal
  • Hallowarrior review – apocalyptic Home Alone-style survival horror delivers inventive shocks
  • ‘A rare indulgence’: why Black Swan is my feelgood movie
  • A Fidai Film review – Palestinian collage film transforms suppressed footage into works of art
  • Deadline review – shocking threat sends tremors through authoritarian school

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