Maria review – Angelina Jolie plays the diva in magnificent stroll around the cult of Callas

Jolie is a painting to be stared at in Pablo Larraín’s opulent drama, tottering around Paris in the 70s and drawing us in to tragedy as thoroughly as Bellini or Puccini

‘World’s largest’ piracy ring Fmovies shut down by police in Vietnam

Major film studio group Ace spearheaded takedown of piracy operation that garnered billions of site visits yearly

Riefenstahl review – deep-dive study takes down the Nazis’ favourite director

Andres Veiel shows how the film-maker loved by Hitler hit the heights with her Berlin Olympics movie – and how she tried and failed to save her Nazi-tinged reputation

Angelina Jolie says women are defined too much by other people’s perceptions

Actor is at Venice film festival promoting biopic about opera singer Maria Callas who was scrutinised for being a ‘diva’

‘I didn’t know romcoms were so fun!’: the return of Gemma Arterton’s utterly charming 60s drama

Being on set for Nick Hornby’s Funny Woman is so entertaining that the cast struggle to keep a straight face while filming. We spend time behind the scenes of this love letter to swinging 60s London

Jason Schwartzman: ‘I was the kid driving around all the record stores buying all the Oasis singles’

The actor answers your questions on auditioning for Wes Anderson, his love of Britpop, his telepathic mother and never hearing back from Ringo Starr

Cate Blanchett says there is a ‘distinct lack of shame’ in modern society

Actor says ‘we all have dark sides’ and criticises ‘public shaming’ before premiere of Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer

Sing Sing review – Colman Domingo is larger than life in big-hearted prison drama

Inspired by a project that uses the arts for rehabilitation, this is an uplifting, energetic film – but Domingo’s showy performance is a little out of place

Separated review – Errol Morris’s quietly furious takedown of Trump’s inhumane border policy

Morris’s forensic account of those who implemented family separation makes for harrowing viewing

Summer box office 2024: what were the big winners and losers?

Early concerns at underperformance of big bets dissipated with string of megahits from Inside Out 2 to It Ends with Us

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review – Tim Burton sequel takes retro joyride through old haunts

Burton’s game attempt to bring the 1980s horror-comedy back from the spirit world is full of gaudy set-pieces but fails to add much to the original

Palestinian film-makers sign letter protesting at Hollywood’s ‘inhumanity and racism’

Dozens of figures including Elia Suleiman and Farah Nabulsi are responding to attempts to remove Bisan Owda’s documentary from the Emmys

Tim Burton admits he was a ‘little lost’ in career before Beetlejuice sequel

The new film based on the 1988 cult horror, featuring the original cast, will open the Venice film festival

‘The last wild places’: the Venice show about Earth’s spiralling salt marsh crisis

They are eco marvels but they are fast disappearing. Sophie Hunter explains why she is using film, music, a few tonnes of salt and a reimagined wife of Lot to sound the alarm

The Count of Monte Cristo review – a good-looking gallop through Dumas’ tale of revenge

Pierre Niney plays the man behind the multiple masks in this fast-moving adaptation that needs a touch more finesse