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The Wonder Way review – artists grapple with the outdoors in study of beautiful chaos

Emmanuelle Antille’s diffuse film begins with her grandmother’s passion for her garden before exploring a range of artists reimagining landscape

Don’t Turn Out the Lights review – party-animal horror turns into backwoods road trip to hell

Andy Fickman’s tale of generically ill-fated obnoxious twentysomethings is cursed with thinly drawn characters

‘Keeps me optimistic’: why You’ve Got Mail is my feelgood movie

The next entry in our series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort picks is an ode to Nora Ephron’s winsome romantic comedy

Twins! Rivals! Clones! Hollywood is doubling down on dual roles

Robert Pattinson, Robert De Niro and Michael B Jordan are all pulling double duty in their new films and that’s just the start

What are smartphones stealing from us? When mine was taken away, I found out

As a Paris film extra, I surrendered my device and discovered the extraordinary connections I miss while staring at my screen

Kamay review – searing story of Afghan Hazara family’s painful quest for justice

A daughter’s death is the catalyst for a difficult journey to Kabul, chronicled in this claustrophobic documentary about the void left by trauma

Gene Hackman’s final days marked by isolation: ‘Slowing down and reclusive’

The actor was likely alone in his house for days, disoriented and too frail to seek help, after death of wife Betsy Arakawa

Next James Bond should be British, says former 007 Pierce Brosnan

Leak reportedly confirms next Bond will be a man, as actor says it was ‘right decision’ to pass franchise to Amazon

Death of a Unicorn review – goofy eat-the-rich satire isn’t fun enough

Jenna Ortega, Paul Rudd and Richard E Grant lead a wasted cast in this silly and exasperating mishmash of comedy and gore

One of Them Days review – SZA and Keke Palmer spar and sparkle in raucous LA buddy movie

The US singer makes a terrific screen debut opposite Palmer in this tale of two roommates working out how to not get evicted

The Accountant 2 review – Ben Affleck’s autistic assassin returns for solid sequel

There’s more ludicrous plotting and macho action in Amazon’s decent enough fan service follow-up

Halt Disney! Flow’s director, and fellow upstart animators, on a new era for the artform

At the ​​Academy Awards last weekend, a little Latvian film ​scooped ​the ​prize for best animation​. Here ​its creator Gints Zilbalodis, and ​other Oscar nominees of micro-budget films, ​discuss ​taking risks and challenging the big studios

Twiggy review – Sadie Frost’s slick portrait of the world’s first supermodel

The swinging 60s London star’s sunny personality illuminates this conventional documentary

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found review – the man who turned his camera on apartheid

Raoul Peck offers a lyrical documentary portrait of the late South African photographer who dared to show his country’s racist regime to the world

Marching Powder review – coke-fuelled comedy doesn’t pull its punches

Danny Dyer plays a football thug in the last chance saloon in Nick Love’s stressful but self-mocking film

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