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Incoming review – Netflix’s Superbad-esque comedy is super unfunny

Raucous teen film about out-of-control high school party never finds its footing, relying on tiresome gross-out humor

The Killer review – John Woo’s John Woo remake is a low-stakes fun time

The director revisits his 1989 classic with a Paris-set update that doesn’t attempt anything all that daring but reconfirms his action credentials

‘It’s like Game of Thrones!’ The return of India’s ancient superhero fantasy epic

In the 1980s, Peter Brook’s adaptation of The Mahabharata enchanted audiences on stage and screen. As Brook’s son presents a restored print at the Venice film festival, he and his team discuss the work’s extraordinary journey

The Crow review – unfathomably awful goth remake

Rupert Sanders’ attempt to resurrect the 1994 cult revenge thriller has become one of 2024’s most atrocious films

‘I felt like the gates of something huge had opened’: Ali Kalthami on his subversive new Saudi thriller

He has just made the highest-grossing Saudi film ever, about a delivery driver who muscles into illegal alcohol. But the edgy subject matter meant he had to fight to get it off the ground

Walk on the weird side: Tim Burton’s movies – ranked!

With his new sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice set to open the Venice International Film Festival on 28 August, we look back at the career of every goth’s favourite director

‘Something is in that room’: Guillermo del Toro disturbed by ‘ghosts’ in Scottish hotel

The Shape of Water director reports supernatural disturbance while staying in Aberdeen to shoot an adaptation of Frankenstein

Blink Twice review – Zoe Kravitz’s stylish yet scattered #MeToo thriller

There are deafening echoes of Get Out, Don’t Worry Darling and The Menu in this propulsive yet ultimately unwieldy attempt to use Epstein’s island as genre inspiration

Kneecap review – Irish-language hip-hop trio in fiercely riotous Belfast romp

The story of Northern Irish teenagers who reinvent the political purpose of hip-hop, the film is most uproarious when the energy of the music lets loose

Animal eclipses co-star Jean Reno in filming of My Penguin Friend

How the five-year real-life friendship between a retired Brazilian fisher and Magellanic penguin became a movie

Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis trailer withdrawn over fake quotes

Lionsgate apologises after trailer shows manufactured quotes by celebrated film critics supposedly panning Coppola’s earlier films

‘I miss him being here’: A daddy-daughter dance inside a jail is captured in a gripping new film

The documentary, shot over years, pushes audiences to ask: who is being punished when we send fathers away?

Together With Lorenza Mazzetti review – compelling final testament from overlooked director

The Italian director, whose film Together made a key contribution to the Free Cinema movement in the UK, died in 2020 but this interview is a fitting tribute

The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat review – female friendship saga falls flat

Adaptation of Edward Kelsey Moore’s novel has admirable intentions and terrific cast but is too rushed to soar

The Mountain Within Me review – disabled heroes take on the Himalayas

Documentary traces Ed Jackson’s extraordinary journey from paraplegia to extreme climbing, and follows him through spectacular landscapes

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