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The Electric State review – Russo brothers’ robot saga is a bogglingly expensive dud

Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt and some great special effects add up to a soulless $320m apocalypse

Last Breath review – unbearably tense deep-sea drama

Prepare to be stuck at the bottom of the North Sea with Woody Harrelson and co in Alex Parkinson’s extraordinary film based on real events

Antidote review – real-time film about those standing up to Putin is essential viewing

James Jones’s gripping documentary following three people as they risk their lives by speaking out plays like a thriller

Sister Midnight review – deliciously macabre Mumbai marriage-gone-wrong black comedy

A remarkable performance from Bollywood star Radhika Apte as an unhappy new bride drives Karan Kandhari’s wildly audacious feature debut

Demon-child movie wows China – and smashes global box office records

Virtually unknown in the west, Ne Zha 2 is the world’s highest-grossing animation at £1.6bn – outdoing Inside Out 2 – just weeks after its release

Intern of the Jedi: film sector turns to franchise favourites in effort to woo talent

Careers fair at Pinewood is among initiatives to lure young to an industry hit by cost inflation, writers’ strikes and an advertising recession

Black Bag review – glossy Steven Soderbergh spy thriller is less Slow Horses, more show pony

Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett head a starry cast to match the luxurious production design, but the director’s espionage yarn could do with some grit

‘It’s controversial and polarising’: is Disney’s new Snow White a poisoned apple?

The studio’s latest remake may need more than a magic kiss to survive its entanglements with politics, sexism and CGI dwarf trouble

Streaming: A Real Pain and the best mismatched buddy movies

Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin’s bickering double act follows in the footsteps of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, via Tom Hanks and his dog

From Last Breath to Gangs of London: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Woody Harrelson stars in a tense, claustrophobic true story, and the hyperviolent cockney-em-up returns for a third series of criminal hijinks

Cry-Baby, the Musical review – John Waters’ teen rebels will have you in tears of joy

This firecracker adaptation of the 1990 Johnny Depp film pokes fun at American conservative values in rockabilly songs bursting with biting ironies

Iron Maiden making official documentary to mark 50th anniversary

Actor Javier Bardem and Kiss frontman Gene Simmons will be among the talking heads in a film about the British heavy metal band by director Malcolm Venville

‘Cancer gave me clarity’: Industry star Marisa Abela on surviving serious illness, playing posh and on-screen nudity

She’s the breakout star of the cult banking drama who went on to play Amy Winehouse and has now been handpicked by Steven Soderbergh for his latest thriller. But at 23, a shock diagnosis changed her world

The Electric State to Bridesmaids: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt lead the Russo brothers’ weird and wonderful bot adventure, and the classic comedy is still a riot from start to finish

‘Musicals can be quite sinister’: Tilda Swinton and Joshua Oppenheimer on bonkers bunker singalong The End

Inspired by a Russian tycoon’s survival bunker, the pair’s post-apocalyptic tale takes in environmental collapse, our facades and delusions – and big ol’ show tunes

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