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The Lost Bus review – Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera in dynamic real-life blaze-escape movie

McConaughey plays the unassuming real hero who drove a schoolbus full of children out of California’s deadliest wildfire

‘Always the coolest, calmest man in the room’: friends and film-makers remember Robert Redford

Everybody loved Robert Redford. Directors and co-stars including Ralph Fiennes, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Delroy Lindo, Judd Hirsch, Norman Reedus and F Murray Abraham explain why

Hundreds protest outside Disney HQ over ‘un-American’ Kimmel suspension

Demonstrators condemn CEO Bob Iger and fellow executives for ‘bending the knee’ to Trump administration

Calls grow to boycott ABC owner Disney over Jimmy Kimmel suspension

Critics say ‘authoritarianism isn’t coming – it’s already here’ amid widespread condemnation of talkshow’s suspension

Swiped review – breezy drama gives dating apps the origins treatment

Lily James plays former Tinder employee who became founder of Bumble in an illuminating yet corny rise-to-fame tale

In Whose Name? review – Kanye’s descent makes for grimly compelling watch

More than 3,000 hours of footage filmed since 2018 by a teenager gets turned into a strange, revealing and unsettling look at a fallen star

‘I’m a hustler, a grinder’: Teyana Taylor on music, motherhood and One Battle After Another

She was discovered by Pharrell Williams, signed by Kanye West and worked with Beyoncé – all by her early 20s. Now the star of Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film is creating a buzz in Hollywood

Australia 3D review – the world’s most majestic tourism ad

This Imax documentary features stunning landscapes and images of Australia’s varied fauna – that wouldn’t be out of place on the back of a plane seat

How Robert Redford redefined menswear on – and off – the screen

Redford was a paragon of masculine cool and a sartorial chameleon, able to take any aesthetic trope and make it shine with easy authenticity

Him review – Jordan Peele-produced football horror is a disappointing fumble

Marlon Wayans hams it up as a quarterback looking to crown the new Goat in an unsubtle and increasingly meaningless critique of a broken system

From high-octane action to arthouse intrigue … all Kathryn Bigelow’s films – ranked!

Ahead of the release of A House of Dynamite – which could make Bigelow the first woman to win the best director Oscar winner twice – we rate her hits, from Point Break to The Hurt Locker

Americana review – Sydney Sweeney heads cast in eminently watchable crime drama

Cowboys and Indigenous Americans tackle cultural appropriation and the legacy of the old west in a plot that revolves around a stolen Lakota artefact

Ackroyd & Harvey: The Art of Activism review – culture and politics collide in film of eco-artist double act

Portrait of the artists asks whether protest art can have a tangible, real-world impact

Ghost Trail review – pain and paranoia as a Syrian refugee attempts to track down his torturer

Jonathan Millet makes his fiction feature debut with an ambitious slow-burn thriller that opens up a complex world of pain

The Glassworker review – beautiful Ghibli-esque anti-war fable

Pakistani animator Usman Riaz’s dazzling debut owes much to Hayao Miyazaki, founder of Japan’s legendary studio, even if the magic and wonder falls a little short of his hero

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