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Diabolic review – Mormon-country horror takes ayahuasca down to the creepy cellar

Underground doors and regression therapy – it sounds like a can’t miss for the genre, but the knockout blow is never delivered

The Man I Love review – Rami Malek needs a lighter touch in Ira Sachs’ 80s Aids drama

Cannes film festival: Sachs’ film about an HIV-positive actor in the homophobic Reagan-era 80s is well-intended, but Malek’s mannered performance is hard to love

Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass review – furry foes out of their depth in candy-coated Chinese adventure

Cat and mouse are transported to a quasi-medieval China in this luridly bright animation that has none of the inventiveness of the Hanna-Barbera originals

The Balloonists review – divas and disasters in tale of first round-the-world hot-air balloon flight

Polite documentary about Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, who faced off much wealthier rivals Richard Branson and Steve Fossett in the race to circumnavigate the globe

I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning review – sweet, sad portrait of gen Z discontent and disillusion

Cannes film festival: Clio Barnard’s absorbing tale depicts five friends who grew up together in Birmingham but now face divided destinies

Charlie the Wonderdog review – pooch v puss caper beams Owen Wilson up from the wilderness

Wilson lends his drawl to a dog who gains superpowers after being abducted by aliens in this frenetic animation

Jack Ryan: Ghost War review – Amazon’s Tom Clancy series spawns middling movie

John Krasinski continues his unconvincing run as the CIA analyst in a mostly unexciting and rather low-rent feature-length adventure

Fight Like a Girl review – fiercely authentic setting lifts powerful female boxer drama

Ama Qamata plays a teenage survivor of sexual violence in the DRC with compelling power, and searingly drawn footage of street life in Goma gives authentic edge

Billy Joel condemns upcoming biopic about his early life as ‘legally and professionally misguided’

Singer-songwriter has ‘not authorised or supported’ Billy & Me, which will be based on the story of his first manager Irwin Mazur

Sheep in the Box review – a bland, baffling tale of AI children from Hirokazu Kore-eda

There’s nothing wrong with film-makers leaving their comfort zone but the Japanese director’s latest effort just doesn’t work

Bitter Christmas review – grief, loss and artistic betrayal in Almodóvar’s film within a film

Cannes film festival: Spaniard’s latest life-v-art auto-metafiction feels slightly muddled as he directs a director directing a director

Minotaur review – Andrei Zvyagintsev’s scorching noir intrigue amid the Ukraine war

Cannes film festival: The great Russian director’s first film for almost a decade is tremendous drama following the ill-deeds of a mini-oligarch who comes up with a toxic new way to feed Russia’s war machine

Her Private Hell review – Nicolas Winding Refn’s shapeshifting fantasia is a dreamy swirl of strangeness

Cannes film festival: Refn’s film eludes definition as it moves through time and space, from doomy reality to strange dream worlds populated by quasi-Lynchian characters

Clint Eastwood cannon from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly traced to Spanish museum

Enthusiasts track down weapon used to fell fleeing Eli Wallach amid preparations for 60th anniversary of film’s release

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu review – helmeted hero tangles with hateful Hutts in decent feature outing

The badass bounty hunter and his little green friend take on the Empire and Jabba the Hutt’s family in this solid enough addition to the ever-expanding universe

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