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‘If you want to nuke your life, do crack’: raw Courtney Love documentary hits Sundance

Antiheroine, a new film about the musician’s tumultuous life and career, premiered at the festival with some frank admissions but the star not present

See You When I See You review – familar Sundance-y grief comedy drama has its moments

Festival stalwart Jay Duplass recruits a talented cast, including David Duchovny, Hope Davis and Kaitlyn Dever, for a patchy, poignant tale

Are people really going to see Amazon’s $75m Melania documentary?

This weekend sees the release of a controversially funded film about the first lady, directed by a disgraced film-maker

Infinite Icon: A Visual Memoir review – Paris Hilton’s act of self-love shows there’s nothing behind the mask

A look behind the scenes of the star’s second album turns out to reveal exactly what you’d expect, at arduous length

The arts of war: can Europe’s artists embrace the idea of ‘armed pacifism’?

Pacifism is core to modern European culture, but a ‘no arms’ attitude risks leaving artists and film-makers short of answers when facing military aggression and political threats

Till DVD release do us part: how far will Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi take their Wuthering Heights showmance?

We’ve had declarations of obsession, we’ve had notification of their matching rings … can someone please throw some cold water over this press tour love-fest?

Why Max Richter’s Hamnet needle-drop left me cold

In a new weekly column about the world of classical music, Tom Service bemoans Hollywood turning pieces into slop through overuse. Plus: Philip Glass withdraws his symphony from the Kennedy Center

Nouvelle Vague review – Richard Linklater bends the knee to Breathless and Jean-Luc Godard

Linklater recreates the making of the landmark French New Wave classic with an awestruck tastefulness that smooths over any disruptiveness

Rabbit Trap review – feral child lends eerie magic to Dev Patel fairy folk rock horror

The 70s musicians who choose to lay down some tracks in remote Welsh countryside may not really surprise, but one young local is startlingly memorable

Hitchcock’s The Lodger has been turned into a vertical microdrama. What’s next – Psycho on Snapchat?

A silent-era classic has been reframed for the vertical scroll of phone screens. Is this innovation, sacrilege, or just another way to repackage cinema history?

Strongroom review – tough locked-vault thriller is outstanding British 60s crime picture

A gang of bank robbers return to the scene of their crime to free the two employees they imprisoned in a vault in this suspenseful British thriller from 1962

TV tonight: Kirstie and Phil take on the battle of the bungalow

The property duo help homeowners decide what to do with their dated dwelling. Plus: more chaos in Black Ops. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York review – John Turturro steals this simple, charming tale

The actor plays a pickpocket who steals from the wrong person in a leisurely, straightforward crime thriller with a sting in its tail

‘This train isn’t going to stop’: shocking Sundance film shows promises and perils of AI

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, co-directed by Daniel Roher, delves into the world of AI through the lens of personal anxiety

The Weight review – Ethan Hawke leads sturdy adventure set in the 30s

The recent Oscar nominee lends gravitas to a decent matinee movie on gold smuggling

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