James McAvoy reportedly assaulted in Toronto bar
Actor promoting his directorial debut California Schemin’ at the city’s film festival is reported to have been punched by another drinker
Holding Liat review – powerful study of a family torn apart by Hamas’ 7 October attacks
Brandon Kramer’s documentary complicates any simple view of the Israel-Gaza war in its portrait of one family’s agonising divisions
Sovereign review – Nick Offerman v Dennis Quaid in rage-fuelled anti-government crime drama
Based on a true story, Offerman plays a ‘sovereign citizen’ extremist pitted against Quaid’s police chief in this uncomfortably chilly drama
‘They told me what their bodies had lived through’: how Syrian vigilantes inspired new thriller Ghost Trail
Director Jonathan Millet contacted a secret cell that hunts down Assad’s collaborators while researching a new film. He soon realised that it could not be a documentary …
Deaf review – cinema as empathy machine as a deaf mother struggles with parenting issues
Angela’s apparently idyllic family life begins to fray when she becomes pregnant and the hearing world’s old prejudices are reawakened
Couture review – Angelina Jolie is the wrong fit for inert fashion drama
The Oscar winner is adrift in Alice Winocour’s uninvolving film, premiering in Toronto, about three thinly written women involved in Paris fashion week show
Hollywood tycoon poised to swoop on Secret Cinema owner
Exclusive: Ari Emanuel, whose entertainment agency owns UFC and WWE, looks to buy TodayTix Group
Lesbian Space Princess review – a fizzy animated film with loads of laughs and a lot of heart
This award-winning Australian feature mixes madcap comedy with a who’s who of queer performers to produce a magical, joyful gem
Before Knives Out, there was Brick: Rian Johnson’s alluring, hard-boiled debut
Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a teen detective in a world of high school drug rings and two-bit thugs, Johnson’s first film is a fine showcase of his now-trademark thrills, chills and twists
Nuns vs the Vatican: documentary alleges sexual abuse and misconduct in the Catholic church
A new film, premiering at the Toronto film festival, follows women who claim to have been abused by a former Jesuit priest
From Ground Zero: Stories From Gaza review – scenes of ordinary life in extremis
This heartbreaking collection of short films mentions neither ‘Israel’ nor ‘Hamas’, instead offering a mosaic of everyday living under nonstop attack
Michael Caine comes out of retirement (again) for Vin Diesel sequel
The veteran actor will be reprising his role as a priest who helps Diesel’s immortal warrior stop the plague in The Last Witch Hunter 2
Stuart Craig, Oscar-winning production designer on The English Patient and Harry Potter, dies aged 83
In a glittering career spanning more than four decades his vision contributed to some of the most memorable worlds in cinematic history
‘It’s so different from the media narrative’: telling a different story of 7 October
Brandon Kramer’s documentary Holding Liat follows an Israeli family torn apart by the Hamas attacks, but clinging to hopes of reconciliation
The Christophers review – Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel spar in smart Soderbergh original
The actors play off each other beautifully in an intimate London-set comedy drama about art, commerce and the mess in-between