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

Julia Roberts says humanity ‘losing art of conversation’ in defence of new #MeToo-themed film

After the Hunt, directed by Luca Guadagnino, centres on an accusation of sexual assault at a university

‘I want to earn my stripes’: Cooper Hoffman on ambition, anxiety, and following in his dad’s footsteps

He was never meant to be an actor – wary of comparisons with his late father Philip Seymour Hoffman. Now a rising star, he talks about growing up, embracing discomfort and forging his own path

The X-Men are heading to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Things will get weird

An X-Men reboot is in the works, but how will the studio integrate the alternate timelines? Will it use the Blip again? Some chaos magic from Scarlet Witch? The Celestials from Eternals even? Let’s consider the options

‘Brent’s end was poetic’: the life and death of first US journalist killed in Russia-Ukraine war

Armed Only with a Camera is directed by Brent’s brother and collaborator, Craig, and produced by Juan Arredondo, who was also shot during the ambush that killed Brent

The Brutalist to Highest 2 Lowest: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Adrien Brody mesmerises in the Oscar-winning epic, while Spike Lee indulges in a New York love-in with his new crime thriller starring Denzel Washington

‘Pink Floyd were my landscape. I was a hippy’: Pierce Brosnan revisits his old London haunts

The former 007 and current star of The Thursday Murder Club goes for a stroll in London’s Camden Town and Primrose Hill. Can he get past the security guard at the Roundhouse, where he once walked a tipsy Tennessee Williams to his car?

Jay Kelly review – even a George Clooney sizzle reel can’t save this dire Noah Baumbach effort

The affable star plays an affable star assessing his life and career at a Tuscan film festival in a wildly sentimental and self-indulgent piece of cine-narcissism

Summer box office 2025: what were the big hits and misses?

The season saw Marvel and DC attempting a superhero comeback, a rush of millennial nostalgia plays and surprise theatrical hits from streamers

Bugonia review – Emma Stone might be an alien in Yorgos Lanthimos’s macabre conspiracy theory comedy

Jesse Plemons delivers an efficient punch as the fanatical Teddy who abducts Stone’s dead-eyed corporate ice queen in Lanthimos’s Korean remake

Emma Stone declares belief in aliens during Bugonia film promo

Actor says she agrees with astronomer Carl Sagan that it is narcissistic to think there is no other life in universe

Orphan review – László Nemes’ fable of resentment and rage in post-uprising Hungary

This always interesting film-maker displays impressive technical control in this painful, sombre story about a boy who meets the father he never knew