The Queen of My Dreams review – mother and daughter bond over Bollywood in colourful comedy romance
Gloriously vivid flashbacks to 1960s Karachi work a treat in Fawzia Mirza’s buoyant, 90s Toronto coming-of-age drama
Reawakening review – Juliet Stevenson and Jared Harris excel in muted domestic drama
A traumatised couple are further tested when a young woman appears claiming to be their long-lost daughter, in Virginia Gilbert’s low-key film
The Critic review – deliciously waspish Ian McKellen lifts 30s London murder mystery
A fine cast is squandered in this sour adaptation, scripted by Patrick Marber, of Anthony Quinn’s lively novel
‘The most horrific, sobering thing I’ve ever seen’: BBC nuclear apocalypse film Threads 40 years on
Ahead of a timely re-airing of Mick Jackson’s famously bleak docudrama, its director recalls why he unleashed a mushroom cloud on Sheffield in 1984
‘Not many people know what happened’: covered up London Blitz tragedy is inspiration for Steve McQueen’s new film
Production that echoes a wartime disaster in the East End that killed 173 people will open the London film festival next month
Lee review – Kate Winslet is remarkable as model turned war photographer Lee Miller
Winslet strongly conveys Miller’s tough-broad magnetism in this sobering, visually striking drama by cinematographer turned director Ellen Kuras
Is the fizz up to Edith Wharton’s standards? The joys of launching a book
A party supported by pals who made it through rush hour rain was appropriate for an anthology celebrating female friendship
On my radar: Mo Gilligan’s cultural highlights
The award-winning standup on Peckham superheroes, black boy joy and his favourite trainers
My Favourite Cake review – lovely, quietly subversive late-life Iranian romance
A lonely widow seizes the day in this bittersweet comedy drama, which drew the ire of the Iranian authorities on its release earlier this year
Killing a baby ‘after birth’ is homicide and legal nowhere. What is Trump on about?
The ex-president repeated the rightwing talking point during the debate with Harris, and now even Fox News is validating it
‘We can be violent to ourselves. Brutal’: Demi Moore on body image, reinvention and her most shocking role yet
After a lifetime of scrutiny, the actor has returned for a ‘grotesque’ feminist body horror about recapturing lost youth. She talks about no longer ‘chasing perfection’, living alone, and feeling truly free at 61
Agatha All Along to Tracey Emin: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Kathryn Hahn returns as the nefarious witch in a WandaVision spin-off, and 90s nostalgia is back in full swing with deeply emotional new canvases from the British artist
Documentary producers release new ethical AI guidelines for film-makers
Controversies over AI-generated material spurred release of guidelines addressing transparency and historical accuracy
James Darren obituary
Singer and teen screen idol who became a fixture on the cabaret circuit and directed episodes of The A-Team and Melrose Place
The British are coming, again! Ralph Fiennes, Daniel Craig and Hugh Grant set for Oscars face-off
As awards season starts, a certain similarity has been detected between three of the key leading actor contenders