Bare Skin review – floridly wordy group therapy horror is propelled by trauma stories
Mico Montes’s perplexing horror portmanteau relies more on atmosphere than its actors for effect
Rose review – Sandra Hüller is outstanding in grimy examination of gender stereotypes
Austrian director Markus Schleinzer’s captivating film follows a woman passing herself off a man in 17th-century rural Germany
Do plans for a new Mummy film signal the end for the multiverse blockbuster franchise?
With audiences fatigued by endlessly interconnected mashups, studios are reverting to movies with one storyline that ends in a natural conclusion – what a radical idea
Every generation gets the Wuthering Heights it deserves. And Emerald Fennell’s is for the always-online
Packed cinemas testify to the allure of Emily Brontë’s tale, even if this latest retelling is not to everyone’s taste, says Guardian arts and culture correspondent Nadia Khomami
Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is a big movie with a very small mind
The maximalist adaptation of the gothic romance shows great interest in production design but very little in character
Lupin the IIIrd the Movie: The Immortal Bloodline review – eye-popping fan-service in latest in anime franchise
Takeshi Koike’s latest take on Monkey Punch’s vintage manga thief is beautifully animated, but the gossamer-thin plot and characterisation mean it’s one for superfans only
‘Unintentionally among the queerest releases of its time’: why Calamity Jane is my feelgood movie
The latest in our ongoing series of writers picking their comfort watches is an appreciation of Doris Day’s rule-defying heroine
Warner Bros Discovery weighs new sale talks after fresh Paramount offer
Board considering whether to re-engage in move that could prompt a second bidding war with Netflix
Collective Monologue review – sensuous zoo study foregrounds contacts between keepers and creatures
Jessica Sarah Rinland’s documentary examines how humans and animals interact in the confines of captivity, but leaves some questions unexplored
TikTok creator ByteDance vows to curb AI video tool after Disney threat
Videos created by new Seedance 2.0 generator go viral, including one of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting
‘A permanent civil war in the body’: how fighting cancer helped an artist understand his Soviet youth
A rare lymphoma diagnosis meant Giorgi Gagoshidze had to abandon a film project on the economic factors behind the USSR’s collapse – until he found new meaning in medical terminology
Gangsterism review – dense, high-minded cine-manifesto on the notion of auteurism
Canadian experimentalist Isiah Medina’s latest flits between radical and grandiloquent, but deserves close reading and exasperated sighs in equal measure
Grim reapers: what has fertilised the rich new wave of neo-rural cinema?
The Shepherd and the Bear is part of a new breed of films with a sympathy for country matters that has moved on from othering folk-horror
‘The goal has been to demystify’: how a colonial Nairobi library was restored and given back to the people
Once a whites-only enclave, the grand McMillan Memorial library is one of three in the Kenyan capital that have been transformed for the community
Wuthering Heights rakes in $77m at global box office on opening weekend
Emerald Fennell’s divisive film is the year’s biggest opening so far, having recouped its entire estimated production budget over the opening weekend