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Time Travel is Dangerous review – likable mockumentary is Back to the Future meets Bargain Hunt

Real-life vintage shop owners Ruth Syratt and Megan Stevenson raid the past for sellable trinkets in this charmingly funny, quintessentially British comedy

‘A loose-limbed trifle’: why Manhattan Murder Mystery is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers on their go-to comfort watches is a look back to Woody Allen’s smart and nimble 1993 comedy

A sinner, a killer and a very controversial erection: has director Alain Guiraudie surpassed Stranger By the Lake?

He caused a scandal with his erotic tale of lakeside cruising. Now the French film-maker is back – with a funny yet tragic story of lofty ideals, base passions and a lusty priest

La Cocina review – Rooney Mara gets stuck in in New York restaurant kitchen drama

The tempestuous chef trope has been done better elsewhere and this kitchen as a microcosm of exploited migrant workers is a disappointment

From The Simpsons to Werner Herzog: the coolest, craziest, scariest Nessies ever

Loch Ness Monster hunters have included the Chuckle Brothers – and even David Lean. As the Scottish icon is honoured in a new stamp and a stirring musical, we separate the classy from the crackpot

Gérard Depardieu to appear in Paris court over sexual assault allegations

Actor, 76, denies claims made by assistant director and set designer who worked with him on Les Volets Verts

The Alto Knights review – Robert De Niro mob movie makes an offer you can refuse

The actor’s false nose is the star attraction as he plays dual roles in Barry Levinson’s baffling latest

When Autumn Falls review – a small gem of a mystery from François Ozon

Hélène Vincent is a treat as a devoted grandmother who isn’t quite what she seems in this understated French tale of family dysfunction

Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other review – raw portrait of a marriage

In this sometimes hard-to-watch documentary, photographer Joel Meyerowitz and writer Maggie Barrett’s fraught relationship is there for all to see

Snow White review – toe-curlingly terrible live-action remake

Audiences watching Disney’s sappy, dire-looking effort starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot will wish only to be put out of their misery

Do we really want Clueless updated to reflect our dark, digital age? Ugh! As if!

Thirty years after the film, the musical version makes no excuses for being a nostalgia-fest

Flow review – beguiling, Oscar-winning animation is the cat’s whiskers

Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis’s enchanting eco-fable about a lone moggy in a flooded world is a triumph of imagination over budget

The big picture: Hicham Benohoud frames the classroom as theatre

While working as an art teacher in the 90s, the Moroccan photographer collaborated with his students to play with the confines of the educational system

#YouToo, Gwyneth Paltrow? Intimacy coordinators make sex scenes safe for all, not just A-listers

The film star is among those undermining a role that was created out of the #MeToo movement to protect the powerless

Santosh review – gripping police procedural about the murky side of modern India

​Documentary-maker Sandhya Suri’s remarkable feature debut​ pitches a new female cop into a ​complex rural murder case

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