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Demi Moore’s stellar second act: how the star was finally given her due at 62

Body horror movie The Substance has finally given Moore the acclaim she has worked for – after 45 years of being recognised for anything but her acting

Aubrey Plaza calls husband Jeff Baena’s death ‘an unimaginable tragedy’

Actor and her late partner’s family issue joint statement thanking supporters and asking for privacy

Demi, Jodie and Nicole: is Hollywood finally ready to recognise complex female characters over 40?

At the Golden Globes, the spotlight was on women playing multilayered, courageous and middle-aged lead roles

‘It’s easy to call what she did evil’: inside Denmark’s Oscars entry, about a serial child murderer

Dagmar Overbye took in unwanted children – and killed them in horrific ways. The director of The Girl With the Needle explains why he brought the story of ‘The Angel Maker’ to the big screen

‘I laughed, I cried, I reflected on many things’: Guardian readers’ best films of 2024

From the mullets in Love Lies Bleeding and the bonkers body horror of The Substance to the tender humanism of Crossing, there was something for all tastes in 2024. Our readers share their highlights

Architecton review – immersive and imposing meditation on concrete and stone

Victor Kossakovsky’s documentary offers awesome drone-shot sequences of wrecked and ruined buildings, but could have been constructed more solidly

It’s Raining Men review – Laure Calamy adultery comedy puts the heat in cheat

Call My Agent! star brings her light comic touch to a flimsy, sugary but sometimes oddly daring French romcom

No blunders, just boldness: older women lead red-carpet glamour at Golden Globes

Demi Moore, Nicole Kidman and Michelle Yeoh challenged Hollywood ageism in statement styles

‘Brings delight’: why Rush Hour is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of Guardian writers picking their go-to happy movies is a look back at 1998’s unlikely buddy comedy

Chalamet snubbed, Demi Moore hailed: the key film Golden Globes shocks and surprises

Adrien Brody’s speech was a convincing Oscar audition, Moore emerged as a serious contender for The Substance – and the awards as a whole emerged reborn

Blood for Dust review – gutsy, state of the nation shoot-em-up lands in Coen bros territory

Director Rod Blackhurst makes a credible attempt at a sharply scripted noir about a travelling salesman turned drug runner

If Batman v Superman crushed Jesse Eisenberg’s star, why is DC giving Jason Momoa a second chance?

Eisenberg says his jarring turn as Lex Luthor ‘hurt my career in a real way’, a fate shared by many a poorly received superhero – even if Momoa’s casting in Supergirl means Aquaman is water under the bridge

The Brutalist is anointed – but key hopefuls locked out at curveball Golden Globes

Brady Corbet’s meaty drama looks likely to become this year’s Oppenheimer but the acting categories were full of the unexpected

Campus Monde review – Ivorian hopefuls battle to get precious immigration visas

Moving film follows an Ivory Coast agency steering students and professionals through rules heavily stacked against those applying the ‘right’ way from the global south

Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold review – intimate, tender and witty photographs

In front of the camera Monroe was luminous, but in this reissued and sumptuous collection of pictures Arnold also captured the insecurity and pain

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