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Brat summer to goth winter: Beetlejuice revival prompts sartorial spookiness

From the red carpet to M&S and Primark, ghoulish themes are set to take over our wardrobes

Rebel Ridge review – Aaron Pierre impresses in small-town US action thriller

The British actor plays an ex-marine grappling with police corruption in Jeremy Saulnier’s overcomplicated crime movie

Sixty is the new golden age: meet the stellar generation hitting this milestone

There must have been something in the air in 1964. Many of the people who shape our world are turning 60 this year

Apollo 13: Survival review – gripping documentary on Nasa’s near-disastrous lunar mission

Using newly revealed archive footage and dramatic reconstructions, director Peter Middleton breathes new life into the familiar events of 1970

Starve Acre review – Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark hole up in brooding Yorkshire folk-horror

A grieving couple are plagued by an ancient menace – if not actual scares – in Daniel Kokotajlo’s adaptation of Andrew Michael Hurley’s novel

‘She just unravels so beautifully’: how Nicole Kidman conquered the world – then kept on going

The mercurial actor, who has won best actress award at Venice film festival for Babygirl, continues to be feted for her genre-jumping roles. Happily, her artistic journey is far from over

Kate Winslet insisted her film about Lee Miller must have female director

Cinematographer Ellen Kuras, who was hired by actor to make her directorial debut, says biopic of photojournalist shows woman plunged ‘into heart of darkness’

Nicole Kidman says her ‘heart is broken’ after death of mother Janelle

Australian actor learned of mother’s death upon arriving in Venice for film festival, where she won best actress award for new film Babygirl

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review – Tim Burton has fun with pleasingly idiosyncratic sequel

The director’s long-imagined follow-up to his 1988 cult movie Beetlejuice revels in some gleefully silly moments while narrowly avoiding that dated feeling

Sunday with Eddie Marsan: ‘My potatoes are legendary’

The actor talks about Motown and meditation, and divulges his secrets for really crispy, fluffy spuds

Venice 2024: Almodóvar’s first major festival win is richly deserved – and epically overdue

At 74, Spain’s finest director has won the Golden Lion – incredibly, his first major victory at a film festival – for his debut English language feature. Better late than never, even if The Room Next Door isn’t quite his finest work

Red Rooms review – dark, unnerving French-language chiller

A young woman becomes obsessed with the trial of a man accused of three horrific livestreamed murders in Canadian director Pascal Plante’s stylish psychological thriller

The Last Showgirl review – Pamela Anderson’s big comeback is a big disappointment

An empty-headed attempt to give the star her version of The Wrestler is a regrettable misfire

We Live in Time review – Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh charm in heartfelt weepie

There are two excellent performances at the centre of a time-hopping romance that tackles well-trodden ground with maturity

Russian documentary accused of falsely showing invading soldiers as victims

Anastasia Trofimova’s film Russians at War criticised for ‘distorted picture of reality’ in Ukraine after Venice premiere

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