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‘Pure sugar-rush mayhem’: why I Wanna Hold Your Hand is my feelgood movie

The next entry in our ongoing series of mood-lifting films is a love letter to Robert Zemeckis’s 1978 comedy about Beatlemania fangirls

The Hamlet Syndrome review – soldiers turn to Shakespeare as Ukrainians deal with the war

A searingly intimate observation of an alternative production of Hamlet, where many of the actors are soldiers from the frontline

Ride the Snake review – low-budget home-invasion horror offers transgressive free-for-all

After a car accident kills her husband, Harper and her daughter kidnap the driver responsible to serve their own kind of justice – but he may not be everything he first seems

From Prince to Michael Jackson: why are the most controversial documentaries getting canned?

As Netflix scraps an epic series exploring the Purple Rain star’s complexities, and Max takes down Leaving Neverland, we ask: are celebrity-endorsed docs, such as the $40m Melania Trump hagiography, the future?

A child on thin ice: EA Hanks on life with her abusive mother – and world-famous father

One half of the author’s early life was spent with a mother who struggled with addiction, her mental health and caring responsibilities. The other was with her father Tom on film sets and in a house full of love and structure. She discusses her road trip back into her complicated past

Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’

President calls films ‘national security threat’ and claims he called on commerce department to immediately enact tariff

‘Life-affirming’: Salt Path film starring Gillian Anderson set to lure walkers to south-west England

Raynor Winn’s tale of 630-mile forced hike around south west coastal path should boost visitor numbers, tourism bosses hope

Paris-based thriller offers fresh inside take on French-Tamil community

Writer, actor and director Lawrence Valin says that in Little Jaffna he wanted to ‘show new role models’

‘An intuitive genius’: Gary Oldman steps back on to stage as a national treasure

Actor returns to York theatre where he started out 46 years ago, after cementing status as one of UK’s greatest actors

Eccentric musician Swamp Dogg at 82: ‘There’s no sympathy for octogenarians’

The genre-bending cult singer is the subject of an offbeat new documentary where he invites people into a long life filled with ups, downs and LSD

My cultural awakening: Groundhog Day made me quit my job, move house and leave my girlfriend

When I saw Bill Murray’s classic comedy I realised that I was trapped in my own unfulfilling time loop

Parthenope to Poker Face: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Gary Oldman stars in Paolo Sorrentino’s latest paean to Italy, and Natasha Lyonne is the sleuth with a nose for fibs in Rian Johnson’s mystery comedy

Are actors getting better (and ‘bett-ah’) at Australian accents?

No longer must we wince through a jarring Cockney-Kiwi mix: Hollywood has finally cracked Aussie dialects. Is it the teaching, the spread of Bluey, AI – or something else?

‘My moment of glory’: Nicolas Cage lookalikes assemble in London

To mark the release of his new film, hundreds of people who sort of look like the actor gather outside Prince Charles cinema

Has Marvel shot itself in the foot by bringing superfreak Sentry into Thunderbolts*?

The inconveniently irrational god-being makes Rocket Raccoon look positively humdrum. Would it be wise to let him monopolise the multiverse?

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