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Broken English review – Marianne Faithfull’s last glow, as she recounts past lives

The charismatic Faithfull is quizzed by a fictional ministry fronted by Tilda Swinton about a confounding career, from 60s It girl to art scene doyenne

The rise of dog-friendly cinema screenings: ‘We never have to break up fights – there’s enough trouble with the humans’

Pooches and their human companions are packing out ‘mutt-iplexes’. So what’s the appeal? One writer and his reluctant companion join 30 other dogs at a showing of The Fantastic Four to find out

Frankenstein review – Guillermo del Toro reanimates a classic as a monstrously beautiful melodrama

Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi star as the freethinking anatomist and his creature as Mary Shelley’s story is reimagined with bombast in the director’s unmistakable visual style

Pompei: Below the Clouds review – a ghostly yet luminous cinematic mosaic of Naples crowns a superb trio

There is a real end-of-days quality to Gianfranco Rosi’s utterly distinctive documentary of war, violence, cynicism and the climate crisis in an uneasy city

Late Fame review – Willem Dafoe is a natural poet in a slice-of-life New York fable

A postman’s forgotten poetry collection finds new admirers in a tale of how the mystique of the past filters to the present

‘I held on to what’s important’: Kim Novak on Hitchcock, Trump and her Venice lifetime achievement award

One of the stars of Hollywood’s golden era, 92-year-old says prize as much about her refusal to be controlled as her on-screen performances

Rose of Nevada review – uncanny ghost ship story from one-of-a-kind Cornish auteur

A vanished trawler returns in Mark Jenkin’s time-slipping film, an enigmatic drama steeped in loss, memory and the unsettling rhythms of coastal life

Ish review – Luton-set urban pastoral in which racial profiling pushes teen friends apart

Police pressure throws into crisis the tenderly portrayed relationship of two young men coming of age in Bedfordshire town

Megadoc review – absorbing account of an impressive and indomitable Francis Ford Coppola at work

Mike Figgis’s valuable documentary shows how Coppola worked with actors on his $120m passion project Megalopolis

Six great reads: the Revenge Porn Helpline, revolutionary architecture and how Netflix ruined movies

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the past seven days

From Caught Stealing to CMAT: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Darren Aronofsky’s back with a new crime caper starring Austin Butler, and the festival-slaying singer-songwriter releases her long-awaited third album

No Other Choice review – sensational state-of-the-nation satire from Park Chan-wook

An unemployed paper worker hatches a cunning plan to murder his way back into the job market in this continually surprising black comedy from the director of The Handmaiden and Oldboy

After the Hunt review – Julia Roberts faces a dilemma in Guadagnino’s muddled campus accusation drama

Luca Guadagnino’s latest – also starring Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield – is clenched in its own sense of relevance, as a desire to find complexity in a scandal at Yale becomes a noncommittal jumble of ideas

‘He’s a jump-off-the-cliff kind of guy’: inside Francis Ford Coppola’s chaotic Megalopolis shoot

Mike Figgis’s documentary takes us on to the set of the director’s passion project to give as raw and intimate a portrait of an auteur at work as we’ve had for some time

At Work review – photographer ditches career for gig economy and writing in poverty drama

Though the film is eventful enough, there is a bland placidity with which Bastien Bouillon plays a man following his dreams in this quaintly naive drama

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