‘Wonderfully sentimental’: why Defending Your Life is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers highlighting their favourite feelgood watches is a tribute to Albert Brooks’s 1991 fantasy

The Colors Within review – musical teen anime is a synaesthetic joy

Three adolescent misfits form a band in this luminous feature from Liz and the Blue Bird director Naoko Yamada

Anqa review – women in Jordan share harrowing testimony of their abuse

Helin Çelik’s documentary mixes impressionistic visuals with chillingly matter-of-fact accounts of abduction, incarceration and domestic violence

Cynthia Erivo on fame, fear and not fitting in: ‘I’ve never talked about how tough my journey has been’

She is one of the world’s most acclaimed performers – going stratospheric as Elphaba in the hit film adaptation of Wicked. Now she’s up for a best actress Oscar. What next for Britain’s brightest star?

‘Uncomfortable truths’: controversial film challenges authorship of famous photo

The Stringer, which premiered at Sundance, alleges that an incorrect credit was given for iconic ‘Napalm Girl’ picture

The Thing With Feathers review – Benedict Cumberbatch’s grief horror falls apart

A unaffecting adaptation of Max Porter’s acclaimed novella is perched awkwardly between fantasy and reality, failing to convince on either level

Flight Risk review – Mel Gibson’s airborne thriller is a B-movie blast

Mark Wahlberg’s hilariously overblown pilot saves Michelle Dockery’s day in director Gibson’s bumpy plane-peril escapade

My Father’s Island (aka Sukkwan Island) review – survival drama takes an ill-advised left-turn

Anatomy of a Fall’s Swann Arlaud plays a father who gets caught in a dangerous situation with his son in a well-made yet frustrating misfire

Rabbit Trap review – Dev Patel gets lost in the woods in messy folk horror

Strong performances and an eerie atmosphere can’t save an increasingly baffling 70s-set curio

Sunray: Fallen Soldier review – brutal, bloated British action movie falls flat

An ex-Marine tracks down his daughter’s killers in this preposterous revenge tale

New accents: the company reshaping Brazilian film by showing ‘ordinary’ life

Filmes de Plástico has filled cinemas and won acclaim by focusing on Black characters living in poor urban areas

Tina returner: why discovering lost songs, films and books is simply the best

Finding a forgotten track by the late singer goes to the heart of who we are, how we connect and the way we define ourselves

The Brutalist review – Brady Corbet’s audacious architecture drama is a monumental achievement

The director’s Adrien Brody-starring tale of a Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor building a new future in the US moves him into the big league

When did film violence become so real, wondered Martin Amis in 1994

The novelist, who liked onscreen horror but hated the real kind, compared actual murders and Child’s Play 3

All That’s Left of You review – deeply moving epic of Palestinian intergenerational trauma

Cherien Dabis’s drama, spanning nearly 75 years in one Palestinian family, is a heart-wrenching, if sometimes blunt, portrait of displacement