Mr Nobody Against Putin review – a teacher fights back in a powerful documentary
A primary school teacher in Russia pushes back on cruel nationalist propaganda in a fascinating and daring look at everyday encroachment
‘There just aren’t words to explain’: Jeff Buckley documentary brings tears to Sundance
A new film looking at the life and tragic death of the singer has premiered to an emotional response at this year’s Utah-based film festival
‘Bold and fresh’: why Hollywood has gone crazy for gruesome, full-blown fairytales
Oscar nominations for Anora, The Substance and Emilia Pérez reflect shift towards surreal plots based on enduring myths
The ‘house next door’: Rudolf Höss’s villa opens to honour Auschwitz victims
On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, House 88 with its chilling past has been turned into centre to combat hate
Sky Force review – Akshay Kumar stands tall in threadbare air-war flagwaver
Kumar does his best to inject some humanist gravitas into a film set during the 1965 India-Pakistan war, that is otherwise obsessed with duty and sacrifice
Presence review – the ghost’s behind the camera in Soderbergh’s teasing haunted house thriller
A suburban family, headed by Lucy Liu’s pitbull mum, are stalked by a malign spirit – and the director’s spectral camerawork
On my radar: Alison Goldfrapp’s cultural highlights
The electropop star on her favourite quirky bookshop, Marmite and cheese pastries and the second series of Severance
Felicity Jones: ‘I try not to look in the mirror too much’
The Brutalist actor, 41, talks about perfect childhoods and imperfect performances, crying on planes and looking like Eddie Redmayne’s twin
‘I was 25 and done with playing a teenager’: Asa Butterfield on Sex Education, stage fright and his ‘terrifying’ one-man play
The actor was eight when he landed his first movie, and spent his teens working with the likes of Martin Scorsese and Harrison Ford. Now he’s making his theatre debut, in a role that mirrors his own experiences of big time rejection
Streaming: Gladiator II and the best sword-and-sandal movies
Ridley Scott’s Paul Mescal-starring sequel, now streaming, joins cinema’s legion of Roman empire love-ins, from Ben-Hur to Conan the Barbarian
From The Brutalist to FKA twigs: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment in the UK
Brady Corbet’s Oscar-tipped period drama mingles war and architecture, while the art-popster aims for sensual wellness with her new album
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You review – Rose Byrne is a knockout in anxious dark comedy
The often under-utilised actor gives a monumental performance as a mother on the edge in an exhausting spiral of a movie
Omaha review – John Magaro leads lean but affecting family drama
The Past Lives and September 5 actor leads a beautifully made, if slightly too withholding, road-trip drama
‘Stick-it-to-the-man sentiment’: Oscar-nominated films compete to bait Donald Trump
Almost all the shortlisted movies this year can be seen as a critique of the incoming president. Accident or design?
Jimpa review – Olivia Colman soars in otherwise muddled queer family drama
Australian director Sophie Hyde’s earnest, semi-autobiographical film moves before it starts to meander