Botticelli’s Primavera review – lucid study of a Renaissance masterpiece
Howard Burton’s scholarly look at the companion painting to The Birth of Venus provides a calm and instructive commentary
The Tasting review – French midlife romcom takes its leads guzzling fine wines
Easygoing tale has Hortense meet Jacques while buying a bottle at his shop, but the real star is the picturesque setting of Troyes
Magic Farm review – Chloë Sevigny can’t lift flat comedy of inept Americans abroad
A farcical tale of entitled New Yorkers arriving in rural Argentina to make a docuseries is too limp and underbaked to hit its targets
‘A reminder that we can resist’: hard-hitting documentary takes aim at anti-trans rhetoric
Heightened Scutiny is a new film premiering at Sundance looking at the troubling rise in anti-trans legislation and the mainstream media outlets who have helped stoke the fire
Atropia review – military roleplaying satire is a frustrating jumble of ideas
Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner are participants in an odd exercise in a debut feature that never figures out what it should be
Together review – codependent relationship body horror is a fun ride
Real-life husband and wife Dave Franco and Alison Brie play a couple put to the ultimate test in a slickly and sickly made thriller
Bertrand Blier obituary
Director of Get Out Your Handkerchiefs and Trop Belle Pour Toi! who saw his role as ‘attacking society: hard, repeatedly and below the belt’
Rebuilding review – Josh O’Connor is a stoic rancher in sensitive, if slight, wildfire drama
The actor delivers another impressive performance, recalling his other rural drama God’s Own Country, in a timely film about recovery
No phone, no watch, no problem: should we all be more like Severance’s Christopher Walken?
The 81-year-old actor has revealed that he has no streaming services, has never sent an email, and doesn’t even know what time it is. Perhaps he has found true freedom
‘He was unforgettable’: the mesmerising star of cult documentary Andy the Furniture Maker
He used to fish for oysters but he fled to the hedonism of London, where he was taken under the wing of Derek Jarman. But Andy Marshall was also a creator of dazzling furniture – and the star of a pioneering film about gay life
Mexicans make Emilia Pérez parody poking fun at French stereotypes
Spoof fires back at supposed inauthenticity of Oscar-tipped screen musical with a song-and-dance tale of boulangeries at war
To Die For: all hail Nicole Kidman, the erotic thriller’s secret weapon
Babygirl fans may do well to revisit this Gus Van Sant confection featuring a deliciously twisted Kidman as a femme fatale hellbent on superstardom
The People Before review – house holds terrible secrets in efficient rural-set thriller
A family seek a fresh start but their new home isn’t the haven of tranquility they were hoping for in this interesting but predictable thriller
Cult London film venue Prince Charles cinema under threat of closure
Much loved for its screenings of hard-to-find films, the venue claims its landlord wants to alter lease, leaving it able to shut down the business
Day of the Fight review – boxer sets out to beat his demons in Kubrick-referencing drama
Story of a former champ looking for redemption is shot through with cliches but it’s very well acted, particularly one indelible scene with Joe Pesci