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Last Swim review – rising star Deba Hekmat is magnetic in exam results day drama

A top student’s A-level celebrations are overshadowed by bad news in Sasha Nathwani’s Berlinale prize-winning British film

Sebastian review – tender, thoughtful sexual odyssey

A young writer who becomes a London sex worker for the sake of his art gets much more than he bargained for

A Matter of Life and Death – a delightful adaptation of Powell and Pressburger’s all-time classic

Grounding fantasy in emotional reality, director Theresa Heskins and her joyous 14-strong ensemble make the David Niven-starring film fly on stage

Mr Burton review – Toby Jones excels as Richard Burton’s inspirational teacher in drab biopic

Jones plays the schoolmaster who spotted the Welsh actor’s raw potential in Marc Evans’s sluggish drama

‘I always thought it would be amazing to be the first person to play a role’: Ewan McGregor on his return to the UK stage

As the star teams up with director Michael Grandage for his first West End part in 17 years, the pair discuss the thrill of putting on a new play, how it updates Ibsen for our times – and a Trainspotting-esque toilet encounter in Russia

Disney’s Snow White had higher carbon emissions in UK than the latest Fast & Furious film

The film, combined with The Little Mermaid, created more than the annual non-aircraft emissions of some major airports.

Ed Atkins review – a portrait of the artist in turmoil

From digital avatars in limbo or distress to a poignant reliving of his father’s last days, the artist seeks to ‘reimagine life’s chaos’

What we should be talking about when we see Snow White

Snow White has sparked outrage across the board, but why is no one worried about its messaging on beauty?

Death of a Unicorn review – Jenna Ortega shines in B-movie-style satire on big pharma

Murderous unicorns run amok in Alex Scharfman’s gory American horror that gleefully embraces a lo-fi aesthetic but lacks sufficient bite

Sunday with Laura Aikman: ‘The dog hates our park because he finds it boring’

The actor tells Rich Pelley about getting excited at the cinema, being lured to kids’ parties and buying amazing breakfast samosas from the farmers’ market

Critics are tearing into the Beatles biopics already. Here’s why they should let it be

The casting of new Fab Four movies and Wuthering Heights has been slammed before filming even finishes. Can’t we just wait and see?

No forgetting my encounter with two giants of the stage

Old pals Ewan McGregor and Michael Grandage prepare for their new play, My Master Builder, by chuckling about everything that could go wrong and has

A Minecraft Movie review – Jack Black and Jason Momoa star in seriously cobbled-together live-action spin-off

Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess’s adventure based on the world’s favourite video game feels like one big cash-in

How Jason Isaacs became the latest White Lotus star to have a renaissance

The Harry Potter and Death of Stalin actor has found fame with a new audience in hit TV show

Streaming: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and the best older women age-gap movies

The recent Bridget Jones sequel, a big hit at the UK box office, celebrates the romance between its middle-aged star and her gen-Z lover, but from Babygirl to The Mother, how do women on screen with younger partners usually fare?

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