From Darkness to Light review – Jerry Lewis’ infamous Holocaust film rescued from oblivion
Lewis grappled with serious themes with The Day the Clown Cried, but as this documentary reveals, to the end he remained haunted by its failure
Mandoob (Night Courier) review – Saudi crime thriller delves into the secrets of Riyadh
Director Ali Kalthami shows the city as never before, through the eyes of a desperate delivery man negotiating a world of gangsters and illegal alcohol
‘Like criticising a book that has 700 pages’: The Brutalist director defends long films
Brady Corbet justifies movie’s length as two-hour-plus runtimes become a theme of this year’s Venice festival
The Count of Monte Cristo review – highly enjoyable French costume spectacle
Three Musketeers screenwriters Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte move on to Dumas’s swashbuckling tale of revenge with verve
Close to You review – Elliot Page struggles to bring transgender drama to life
Dominic Savage’s film about a man whose family do not understand his transition feels underpowered
‘Can we show an act of violence on TV?’ New thriller tells story of Munich hostage massacre
Venice film festival docudrama September 5 about TV crew that covered the 1972 Olympics crisis has lessons for the smartphone era, says its director
‘Everyone recognises her now – me, not so much’: Arthur Harari on how Anatomy of a Fall catapulted him and Justine Triet to film power couple status
The Oscar-winning co-writer of Anatomy of a Fall on starring in a new hit courtroom drama, his fear of a rightwing France, and why he’d rather be behind the camera than in front of it
Paradise Is Burning review – compelling Swedish drama of three abandoned sisters
United by love and feral freedom, the girls dodge the clutches of social services in Mika Gustafson’s beautifully performed feature debut
Sing Sing review – Colman Domingo is magnetic in moving real-life US prison drama
The US actor heads a cast largely made up of former inmates in Greg Kwedar’s low-key tale about the redemptive power of theatre
The Order review – Jude Law leads neo-Nazi-hunting thriller with confident authority
Law is commanding opposite an icy Nicholas Hoult in true-crime story about the takedown of a far right militia in the 1980s
Campo di Battaglia review – medicos face off in stately first world war hospital drama
Gianni Amelio’s saga is set in 1918, when a pair of Italian doctors take very different approaches to treating the wounded that pass through their wards
And Their Children After Them review – racism and revenge festers in smalltown France
Nineties-set drama adapted from the bestselling novel zeroes in on tensions in a post-industrial community, sparked by a feud over a motorbike
Black Dog review – ex-con and stray dog bond in searching Chinese social drama
Guan Hu’s low-key Cannes winner is a heartfelt tale of redemption set against the dramatic backdrop of the Gobi desert
From Charli XCX and Van Gogh to Gladiator 2: the best culture to go out and see this autumn
The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness still offers plenty of excuses to leave the house. Our critics offer their odes to the season’s best film, theatre, dance, art, comedy and music. Expect a bumper harvest of culture
‘You’re part of the tornado’: the summer of moviegoing game-changer 4DX
The immersive theatrical experience, which sees your seat move, shake and often spray water, has seen a record summer