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Venice film festival to showcase big hitters George Clooney, Emma Stone, Julia Roberts – and the Rock

Prestige titles grabbing some glamour include Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and Jim Jarmusch’s all-star Father Mother Sister Brother, while Jude Law plays Putin

Irish Museum of Modern Art rejects censorship claims after Derek Jarman film cancellation

IMMA says it plans to reinstate screenings of The Angelic Conversation, following a complaint against the showing of a gay kiss on the museum’s outdoor screen

Reputation review – front and swagger in brawling portrait of British male rage

A drug dealer begins to question his life choices but his bullying partner-in-crime refuses to let him go

What Does That Nature Say to You review – funny and complex Korean dad-boyfriend standoff

Hong Sang-soo makes a genuinely intriguing addition to his booze- and conversation-fuelled oeuvre

Osiris review – Linda Hamilton drops in to rescue charmingly hokey space-horror

The fella-in-a-suit aliens resembling past pop culture beasties are a strength of an entertaining abduction adventure

‘I went vegan on the second day of filming’: James Cromwell on making Babe, the talking pig classic

‘I broke for lunch before everybody else and all the animals I had been working with were on the table – cut up, fricasseed, roasted and seared’

Toronto film festival: Angelina Jolie, Saoirse Ronan and Keanu Reeves lead lineup

The 50th edition of the Canadian film festival will also feature world premieres starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Sydney Sweeney and Matthew McConaughey

The Unholy Trinity review – Samuel L Jackson and Pierce Brosnan shine in bubbling potboiler of a western

A robustly enjoyable story involving a son seeking revenge on a sheriff who framed his father for murder, a fake priest, local thugs and a stash of stolen gold

Saint Clare review – Bella Thorne takes out predatory creeps in feminist revenge horror

Thorne plays a girl hunting down sexual abusers in what could be an interesting premise were it not seemingly made for viewers who don’t like really women, or men

‘I am elated each time I watch’: why Rushmore is my feelgood movie

The next in our series of writers drawing attention to their most-watched comfort films is a reminder of Wes Anderson’s idiosyncratic 1998 comedy

Sofonisba’s Chess Game review – pioneering female Renaissance artist gets her due

Documentary analysis of benchmark 16th-century painting is absorbing but focus on a single work misses the chance to reveal an extraordinary life

Burkitt review – fascinating film intertwines lives of patient and trailblazing surgeon

Director Éanna Mac Cana combines a diary of his cancer treatment with a probing portrait of Irish paediatrician Denis Burkitt who gave his name to the condition

What the culture war over Superman gets wrong

Rightwing commentators are furious over the superhero’s positioning as an immigrant. But his story was crafted to cushion unease

‘You can make really good stuff – fast’: new AI tools a gamechanger for film-makers

Instead of spending millions and taking years to complete, creative directors are producing high-grade work using the latest software, but critics voice copyright concerns

Disneyland at 70: artists on the park’s five best rides – and why they still captivate

The California theme park is busier than ever. We asked artists, designers and historians to weigh in on the attractions that stand the test of time

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