Why Emilia Pérez should win the best picture Oscar
Despite the controversy this is a wildly inventive and ambitious film. Completely absurd, subversive and never, ever boring, it still deserves to be in the discussion
The Birthday review – cult Corey Feldman movie arrives after 20 years in film wilderness
Given a boost by Jordan Peele, this hyped ‘lost’ movie from Eugenio Mira about freaky goings-on at a hotel finally gets a proper release
Escape from the 21st Century review – teenagers fast-forward to the future in barmy sci-fi
Three school friends discover their adult selves in this fast and flashy adventure debut from director Li Yang
James Bond won’t die on my watch, says Austrian who wants ownership of 007
Exclusive: Property developer making trademark challenge claims the spy franchise is in mortal danger
What Marielle Knows review – teenager’s telepathic powers reveal parents’ secrets and lies
In this fantasy-satire of bourgeois family life, a girl is suddenly able to see everything her messed-up parents are up to
‘Clambering about in Victorian boots was brutal’: how we made Picnic at Hanging Rock
‘A potential US distributor,’ recalls director Peter Weir, ‘supposedly threw his coffee cup at the screen at the end of the film, saying, “So whodunnit?” He felt he’d wasted a couple of hours’
People (Ludzie) review – multi-thread epic offers raw tales from the Russia-Ukraine war
The brutalising reality of the battlefield connects five different stories in this anti-war drama
Girls on Wire review – Chinese behind-the-scenes stunt drama is a spectacle
A stunt double who plays roof-bouncing ninjas before the lead steps in for the closeup is stuck in a family/mob triangle in Vivian Qu’s occasionally silly thriller
A ‘great shock’: Julianne Moore’s children’s book under review by Trump administration
The actor’s book Freckleface Strawberry is on a list of library books suspended for a ‘compliance review’ after a presidential executive order
Intercepted review – phone taps are a chilling glimpse into Russian soldiers’ minds in Ukraine
Recordings of fighters’ wiretapped phone calls are juxtaposed with images of wartime destruction in Oksana Karpovych’s compelling war documentary
Night Agent star who played JD Vance in Hillbilly Elegy condemns actors who get political
Gabriel Basso says actors should ‘shut the fuck up’ and that they have no authority to publicly bestow political views
Why Nickel Boys should win the best picture Oscar
In the first of our annual Oscar hustings, here’s why RaMell Ross’s incredibly tender film of Colson Whitehead’s novel should take the top prize
A Picture to Remember review – memories of a Donetsk happy childhood before the war
Olga Chernykh’s portrait of life in war-torn Ukraine, based on home videos, examines how bonds and memories persist through trauma, loss and distance
‘It was like she was possessed’: how Q Lazzarus made Silence of the Lambs’ most bewitching song – and then vanished
Her track Goodbye Horses soundtracked one of the 90s thriller’s most memorable scenes, but the singer ended up driving cabs and dying in obscurity. Now a new documentary lets her tell her story
‘It has it all’: why The Wedding Singer is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series where writers draw attention to their favourite good-time watches goes back to the 90s when Adam Sandler went back to the 80s