The End review – Joshua Oppenheimer’s end-of-days musical is ambitious and exhausting
The documentarian makes his hit-and-miss narrative debut with help from Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon as privileged parents in a luxury bunker
Uglies review – Netflix’s drab and dated YA dystopian mess is not pretty
An empty and exasperating teen book adaptation, set in a future where beautiful people rule the world, is one of the year’s most pointless films
Will The Hunt for Gollum really be two movies? That’s got to be a stretch
If Ian McKellen is right, a double feature Lord of the Rings movie based on a story gleaned from Tolkien’s appendices seems overly thin, even with an AI Orlando Bloom
Speak No Evil review – James McAvoy gives roaring life to red-blooded holiday horror
Remake of a Danish story of an unwary family who follow a charismatic couple on holiday has lost some of its nihilism but McAvoy packs real power
His Three Daughters to Peterloo: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen and Carrie Coon are magnificent and touching as siblings saying goodbye to their dying father, while Mike Leigh’s rage powers his movie about the 1819 massacre
‘The main issue was always the hijab’: the Iranian directors arrested for their gentle septuagenarian comedy
Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, makers of My Favourite Cake, received an ovation at the Berlin film festival while under house arrest in Tehran. They speak about the struggle of creating art under a dictatorship
‘The UK is invited’: Bradford reveals 2025 City of Culture lineup
West Yorkshire city to host magic, music, film and theatre performances celebrating local talent, plus Turner prize
Kenneth Cope, star of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and Coronation Street, dies aged 93
Liverpudlian actor, described by his family as ‘an incredible icon’, also appeared in the Carry On film series
Kenneth Cope obituary
Actor and writer who played Marty in the TV series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and Jed Stone in Coronation Street
Saturday Night review – tedious SNL origins tale is an unfunny misfire
Toronto film festival: Jason Reitman’s 70s-set comedy detailing the first-ever episode of Saturday Night Live is a dull and self-indulgent mess
‘It was a true privilege to witness his talent firsthand’: readers on James Earl Jones
From memorable meetings to seeing him on stage, and learning late that he had voiced Darth Vader, Guardian readers remember a great and generous actor
Jude Law: ‘Playing Henry VIII messed up my back. I’m still trying to sort it out’
The actor answers your questions about football-spectator stress, playing down his good looks, and why he’d like to play Dickie Greenleaf in his 50s
‘Do you have contempt for my views?’ How a leftwing film-maker and a Republican came together
For documentary The Last Republican, director Steve Pink followed Adam Kinzinger, who went against his party to criticise Donald Trump in the wake of an insurrection
The Critic review – Ian McKellen’s poison pen sharpens 30s society cosy-crime drama
As a jaundiced reviewer with a dangerous private life, McKellen brings glorious life to this story of sour toffs in a dishonest decade
The Piano Lesson review – powerful yet patchy August Wilson drama
Fantastic performances from Danielle Deadwyler and Samuel L Jackson enliven a soulful, if imbalanced, Netflix adaptation