The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias review – Slavoj Žižek goes in search of paradise
Inserting himself into settings from Apocalypse Now to The Handmaid’s Tale, the pop-cultural critic finds it hard to locate the perfect ending – even with spoilers
Netflix announces production of third Inbetweeners film
Creators Damon Beesley and Iain Morris return as writers and directors, with the original cast reprising their roles
Chris Langham obituary
Actor and writer best known for his role in TV’s The Thick of It who was jailed in 2007 for downloading child pornography
Boatbuilders review – a gentle study of craftsmen’s quiet expertise
Luke Lorentzen’s light-touch documentary follows a team of Maine craftsmen constructing a high-spec sailboat for a super-rich guy who seems kind of nice
The Last Bath review – self-mortifying nun struggles with profoundly uneasy sexual awakening
Anabela Moreira is an impressively intense lead as the sister who finds herself in charge of her wayward teenage nephew
In the Shadows of Nuremberg review – trial-adjacent thriller aims to be Russian answer to Saving Private Ryan
A trivial personal plotline and a strain of maudlin patriotism undermine Nikolay Lebedev’s shaky telling of the Soviet side of the story
Primetime review – Robert Pattinson’s preening TV host hunts paedophiles but real drama proves harder to target
Venice film festival: Lance Oppenheim’s drama about controversial US reality show To Catch a Predator is unsure what it wants to say about media or morality
Imperium review – Sergei Loznitsa’s archive collage collates everyday life in cold-war Soviet Union
Venice film festival: The Two Prosecutors director cuts together documentary footage shot by a TV crew in the 1970s to try and get across what daily life in the USSR was like
‘Swiftly enchanted’: why Bedknobs and Broomsticks is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series of writers recommending their most rewatched comfort films is a reminder that Disney’s kids fantasy is more than a Mary Poppins knock-off
Okurimono review – a heartbreaking dispatch from survivors of the Nagasaki bomb
Laurence Lévesque’s powerful documentary follows a woman who discovers a support network among her mother’s generation of survivors of the nuclear blast
Unidentified Murder review – playful sendup of alien abduction and true crime influencers in Hong Kong
Childhood friends claim to have witnessed the disappearance of a schoolkid in this low-budget comedy caper that pushes limits of storytelling
Rob Reiner wins posthumous Emmy for The Bear, as Widow’s Bay dominates early awards
Reiner broke record set by his father Carl Reiner at the ceremony formerly known as the Creative Arts Emmys, with The Pitt, Pluribus and DTF St Louis also winning big
‘Sharks are my film stars’: how the Jacques Cousteau of the North Sea finally unlocked its beauty
Epic plankton blooms make filming in the North Sea notoriously difficult. But a new documentary gives a rare glimpse of the kaleidoscopic life – seals, sharks, tuna, orcas and shorthorn sculpins – lurking beneath its waves
Woman Unknown review – postwar paranoia with some deliciously dastardly Du Maurier touches
A nanny becomes the new lady of a prosperous Copenhagen house as accused Nazi sympathisers are violently shamed in May el-Toukhy’s shrewd, painful portrait of survival
Cult of male genius holding female film-makers back, says Woman Unknown director
May el-Toukhy says we must end veneration of male directors that causes ‘structural problem’ for women