Tender Loving Care review – Mike Leigh’s tender and elusive study of love and mortality

Alice Bailey Johnson and Kate O’Flynn lead a tender, quietly heartbreaking drama about friendship, ageing parents and the sadness of lives moving inexorably on

Act 3 review – queer art history and life reflections from masters of metatextuality

Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s absorbing documentary is a parallel take on their relationship and a nascent drama on artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

The Basics of Philosophy review – Paul Schrader back to his cool, cruel best

When a figure from his past turns up to a family funeral, a college professor faces an agonising dilemma that makes him question his own morality and whether he can change

15/18 A Place to Heal review – heartfelt docu-realist study of a French teen psychiatric facility

Director Cédric Kahn combines compassion with coolly detailed forensic scrutiny in this genre-challenging film which puts a troubled love triangle at the centre of the story

‘Like a tired boxer, battered by applause’: as Andrew Scott’s biopic premieres, Richard Eyre remembers Ian Charleson’s superb, near-death Hamlet

In 1989, the Chariots of Fire actor took on the incredible task of playing Shakespeare’s prince while terminally ill from Aids. This weekend sees the world premiere of Elsinore, a new film about the episode, itself heavily-tipped for awards

Latcho Drom director Tony Gatlif dies aged 77

Film-maker acclaimed for his celebrations of Roma culture had been working on a ‘historical film project’ in Provence

‘I’m used to doing the impossible’: George Lucas unveils new LA museum – what’s its story?

Spaceship-shaped gallery, featuring works from Banksy, Norman Rockwell and Frida Kahlo, is devoted to ‘visual storytelling’ – and is finally ready to open

Queer Edward II review – funny, touching time capsule of Derek Jarman at work

Venice film festival: Filmed during the making of his queer royal feature, while the director was living with HIV, the candid footage includes uproarious scenes at a Cliff Richard rehearsal

‘Many of us in Israel live in a state of shock at the savagery’: veteran director Amos Gitai returns to Gaza

The writer-director once called Israel’s ‘one-man New Wave’ is in Venice with The Road to Jericho, a new and poetic attempt to highlight the plight of those in the occupied West Bank

Wallace’s dog Gromit was nearly a cat, reveals creator as Aardman turns 50

Nick Park began modelling the character as a feline, before finding it too difficult and changing him to a dog

Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman was one of DC’s few successes. It’s a mystery why she got the chop

James Gunn and Peter Safran’s regime had good reasons to ditch Ben Affleck’s Batman and Henry Cavill’s Superman. Other choices have been much harder to fathom

A remarkable documentary made by blind students: ‘We were stunned by the footage’

In Brailled It, the tension and stakes of the annual Braille Challenge are brought to the screen by three of the competitors

The Mandalorian and Grogu to Mayday: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Pedro Pascal’s bounty hunter and Baby Yoda hit the big time, plus Kenneth Branagh and Ryan Reynolds’s funny cold war buddy caper has charm to spare

‘If you can’t understand what sex is, it’s irrelevant if you seem to be enjoying it’: how Queen at Sea upended the dementia drama

Lance Hammer’s first film in 18 years is a heart-wrenching masterpiece about family, mental decline and sexual consent. He and supporting actor Juliette Binoche discuss how they brought unabashed realism to a condition rarely seen on screen

Faces of Death review – rework of notorious video nasty turns horror voyeurism into moral panic fable

A retelling of the 1978 ‘video nasty’ follows an online content moderator faced with steadily more appalling footage but reverts to generic bloodletting