My Freaky Family review – overly quirky and unforgivably mawkish animation
This children’s film about a normal girl in a magical family strives for zany, anarchic fantasy. Unfortunately it’s just boring
A Nightmare on Elm Street review – jauntily outrageous slasher is still cheerfully crass
Johnny Depp makes his film debut in Wes Craven’s imperfect but entertaining horror that still has considerable black-comic energy
Idris Elba to move to Africa ‘to bolster the film industry’
The actor plans to relocate to help make African films that are not framed by colonialism but ‘own those stories of our tradition, of our culture, of our languages’
Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band review – still blowing minds after 50 years
Thom Zimny deftly weaves archive footage, recent live performance, candid interviews and fan tributes to create a rich portrait of a modern icon and his legendary band
Watership Down review – charming rabbit animation still has power to terrify
A band of rabbits must leave their warren to find safety in a film that, even in a digital age, still has the bloody force to scare young minds
The Room Next Door review – Almodóvar’s English-language debut is extravagant and engrossing
Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton give luxuriously self-aware performances as two old friends who are reunited in a doggedly mysterious drama
Roman Polanski: lawsuit alleging director raped teenager in 1973 settled and dismissed
Civil suit that claimed the now 91-year-old sexually assaulted a 16-year-old in Los Angeles in 1973 has been settled to ‘mutual satisfaction’ of both parties
The World of Tim Burton review – Johnny Depp’s scissorhands can’t cut through the cobwebs and corpses
The Design Museum, LondonThis world-touring exhibition showcases the kooky, gothy director’s early passions and obsessions – but he’s no Edgar Allan Poe
Dick Pope, cinematographer and Mike Leigh collaborator, dies aged 77
British Oscar nominee was known for work on films such as Mr Turner, The Illusionist and Secrets & Lies
Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning
Statement comes as tech firms try to use creative professionals’ work to train AI models
‘I am valued here’: the extraordinary film that recreates a disabled boy’s rich digital life
Mats Steen had muscular dystrophy and died very young. But a touching new documentary has used animation and his own posts to reveal the fulfilling gaming life he led in World of Warcraft – right down to his first kiss
Practical Magic: Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock’s enduring song of sisterhood
Witchy, cozy and murderously mischievous, this 1998 film about a clan of women beset by an ancient curse feels like a warm hug. Its resurgence is long overdue
Americans don’t want to see a Trump movie but elsewhere it’s a different story
Controversial drama The Apprentice has bombed stateside but it’s attracting bigger audiences in other parts of the world
Black Box Diaries review – inside the remarkable events that triggered Japan’s #MeToo movement
Japanese journalist Shiori Itō tells how she pursued her rape case against a prominent TV executive
Tom Holland set to star in new film from Christopher Nolan
The Spider-Man actor is in talks to star in the project, which is due for release in July 2026, alongside Matt Damon