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Undercover film exposing UK far-right activists pulled from London festival

Film festival organisers make ‘heartbreaking’ decision not to show Undercover: Exposing the Far Right amid concerns over staff welfare

The Crime is Mine review – Isabelle Huppert and co revel in Ozon’s frothy French crime caper

Set in 1930s Paris, François Ozon’s theatre-world courtroom comedy is a fizzing if throwaway delight

Before superhero movies, directors were masters of the universe – now you can find them cowering in their trailers

When I started looking at how the superhero movie sausage gets made for a new HBO comedy, I found a world of dysfunction, missed deadlines and utterly frazzled film-makers

‘I felt this film was my duty’: director Mati Diop on Dahomey, about the return of looted African treasures

The French-Senegalese film-maker on winning the top prize at Berlin for her otherworldly new work, cultural identity and her beef with Beyoncé

‘A fertile time’: Bafta Cymru honours golden age of film and TV production in Wales

From Doctor Who to Men Up, Cardiff’s creative sector has become one of the fastest growing in Britain

The Apprentice to The Franchise: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Sebastian Stan gets real (estate) in Donald Trump’s origin story, and Iannucci, Mendes and co have fun on a superhero movie set

Luca Guadagnino to direct new take on Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho

Call Me by Your Name and Challengers film-maker to bring new interpretation to hit novel to the screen

Brothers review – throwaway madcap comedy wastes a host of stars

Peter Dinklage, Josh Brolin, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei and Brendan Fraser are lost in this brief and silly Amazon caper about low-level criminals

‘You can see the money on screen’: why Hollywood is betting on Gladiator II not being another Folie à Deux

From the 1:1 scale Colosseum to the marauding model rhino, Ridley Scott’s forthcoming sequel screams conspicuous spending – but how bullish is Hollywood feeling, and what do we know about the film so far?

Daring or dire? Guardian readers on Joker: Folie à Deux

Todd Phillips’ superhero sequel might have been a box-office flop, but some readers see a lot to cherish in the performances of Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga

Saint Maud review – desire, despair and ‘godgasms’ as Rose Glass’s shocker comes to life

Brogan Gilbert gives an extraordinary performance as the troubled nurse caring for a terminally ill dancer in a compelling adaptation of the 2019 horror film

‘Really speaks to sex workers’: can Anora help humanise a degraded profession?

Sean Baker’s acclaimed and Oscar-tipped new comedy focuses on a sex worker, a story that led him to consult with those who live and work in that world

Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare to The Beasts – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

The astonishing account of a decade-long deception, and an intensely moving rural drama. Plus: Bruce Springsteen on tour and a very surprising cameo from Jeremy Allen White

In memoriam Marius: film unpicks ethics behind Danish zoo’s controversial giraffe killing

When Copenhagen zoo cut up a giraffe as kids looked on it caused global outrage – Life and Other Problems charts a path between Darwin and Disney to explore what the scandal teaches us about animal-human relations

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin review – moving tale of disabled gamer’s digital double life

Using World of Warcraft-style animation, this documentary tells the story of Mats Steen, a boy with muscular dystrophy whose online popularity was only revealed after his death

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