Dahomey review – Mati Diop’s exquisite tale of repatriation

In this lyrical hybrid documentary, the French director brings to life 26 stolen artefacts as they make their way from Paris back to Benin

Matt and Mara review – freewheeling Canadian romance

Small moments speak volumes as a poetry professor and a novelist rekindle their friendship in Anne at 13,000ft director Kazik Radwanski’s latest

Venom: The Last Dance review – Tom Hardy’s jaded antihero carries messy Marvel finale

Alien parasites are only half the problem as Hardy’s Eddie Brock battles existential demons and an incoherent plot

The World of Tim Burton review – a tour around a singular creative mind

The director is the subject of an immersive touring show that ranges from his drawings since childhood to Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman outfit

Black Box Diaries review – Japanese journalist’s courageous documentary about her own rape ordeal

Shiori Itō’s account of her sexual assault by a high-profile colleague, and her fight for justice, is a tough but important watch

On my radar: Jacques Audiard’s cultural highlights

The film director on the music he works to, educating himself via podcasts, and why the Paris Olympics was a pleasant surprise

‘We just have to keep fighting’: a shocking new film on the danger of US abortion laws

In the Hilary Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence-produced documentary Zurawski v Texas, women whose lives have been brutally upended have their say

Emilia Pérez review – Jacques Audiard’s riotously entertaining trans Mexican cartel musical

The veteran French director takes a huge gamble with this gritty crime thriller turned glitzy soap opera boasting standout performances from Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón and Selena Gomez

A close encounter with Richard Gere, 1998

William Leith got up close and personal with the simmering sex symbol, elegant and elusive both in public and private

The Room Next Door review – Almodóvar’s stylish end-of-life drama feels emotionally empty

Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore seem constrained in the Spanish director’s uneasy first English-language film, winner of this year’s Venice Golden Lion prize

No more Mr Nice Guy: how Hugh Grant transformed himself into an edgy national treasure

In Richard Curtis and Bridget Jones romcoms he was everyone’s favourite foppish Englishman. Now the actor shows his steel as a menacing villain in a new horror movie

The Terminator at 40: did James Cameron see into the future?

The 1984 sci-fi thriller offers a grim view of the dangers that ‘the machines’ might pose for humanity as well as one of the most thrilling experiences of the decade

Streaming: The Substance and the best body horror for Halloween

Coralie Fargeat’s body horror satire on ageing is a welcome female take on a genre that preys on our deepest physical fears

Joy and pain, struggle and achievement – who best tells the story of Black lives?

We asked a group of Black Britons, some famous, some not: who do you most revere as a chronicler of the Black journey, in Britain and abroad?

‘I thought I’d die at Armageddon’: Hollywood action hero Luke Evans on growing up gay as a Jehovah’s Witness

The Welsh actor talks religion, rebelling and why he had to come out twice