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Dear Beautiful Beloved review – a powerful message from the Ukrainian frontline

Film-maker Juri Rechinsky documents moments of kindness and compassion among the death and grief that surrounds evacuation and forensics teams

My Sister’s Bones review – drab adaptation doesn’t deliver the dark punch of the bestselling novel

Despite the best efforts of the fine cast this psychological thriller about a war correspondent returning to her home town falls short of exploring the full scope of family trauma

Frederick Wiseman, prolific documentary film-maker, dies aged 96

Recognised with an honorary Academy Award in 2016, Wiseman directed and produced almost 50 films with a lifelong commitment to curiosity and naturalism

The Blood Countess review – Isabelle Huppert reigns supreme in a surreal vampire fantasia

Vienna turns into a playground of camp, cruelty and aristocratic disdain in a blackly comic take on the Báthory legend – with Huppert gloriously suited to the title role

Robert Duvall, Apocalypse Now and Godfather star, dies aged 95

From the classic To Kill a Mockingbird to blockbuster Gone in 60 Seconds, the Oscar-winning actor’s films spanned a remarkable range

Robert Duvall was a vigorous and subtle actor who always performed with passion and conviction

From his steely self-effacing consigliere in The Godfather to his surf-crazed Wagner enthusiast in Apocalypse Now, just to see him on screen made me smile

At the Sea review – Amy Adams plays it overly straight in insufferable upper-middle-class drama

Shame, healing and personal growth are the order of the day in this humourless, self-adoring and vapid exploration of an artistic and narcissistic Cape Cod family

UK audiences swoon over Wuthering Heights as film takes £7.7m over Valentine’s weekend

Emerald Fennell’s Brontë adaptation has overperformed on home turf, with a £10,030 site average over its opening weekend

‘It was spooky’: folk singer Olivia Chaney on how a song reflecting her own Brontë-ish love triangle wound up in Wuthering Heights

Offsetting Charli xcx, Chaney’s take on 19th-century ballad Dark Eyed Sailor accompanies Margot Robbie on the moors – but it’s just a tiny part of her culture-crossing, history-vaulting musical catalogue

O’Romeo review – Bollywood Shakespeare takes dive into grisly mafia queens territory

After hit takes on Macbeth, Othello and Hamlet, Vishal Bhardwaj’s Romeo and Juliet adaptation sees dead-eyed lovers drag one another to gutter and grave

‘Heath Ledger knocked my tooth out jousting with a broom’: how we made A Knight’s Tale

‘The lances were made of balsa wood and filled with uncooked spaghetti – so that when they broke, there’d be an explosion of what looked like splinters’

Bare Skin review – floridly wordy group therapy horror is propelled by trauma stories

Mico Montes’s perplexing horror portmanteau relies more on atmosphere than its actors for effect

Rose review – Sandra Hüller is outstanding in grimy examination of gender stereotypes

Austrian director Markus Schleinzer’s captivating film follows a woman passing herself off a man in 17th-century rural Germany

Do plans for a new Mummy film signal the end for the multiverse blockbuster franchise?

With audiences fatigued by endlessly interconnected mashups, studios are reverting to movies with one storyline that ends in a natural conclusion – what a radical idea

Every generation gets the Wuthering Heights it deserves. And Emerald Fennell’s is for the always-online

Packed cinemas testify to the allure of Emily Brontë’s tale, even if this latest retelling is not to everyone’s taste, says Guardian arts and culture correspondent Nadia Khomami

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