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The Home Game review – sweet and heartwarming story of Iceland’s footballing underdogs

This plucky documentary tells of the small town whose residents created its first football pitch, and the years that followed chasing their goal

Widow Clicquot review – vine-whispering champagne-maker gets the biopic treatment

Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot ascends from demure young lover to patriarchy-defying innovator in this attractive but not quite grand cru biopic

Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limits review – Czech Spider-Man climbs all the way to Olympics

Jan Šimánek and Petr Záruba’s intimate documentary reveals the vulnerabilities behind sporting success as rock climber Ondra trains for Tokyo 2020

The Last Dream by Pedro Almodóvar review – fantastical fictions and candid personal curios

The Spanish director’s 12 tales, written between the late 60s and today, are a heady mix of factual and fictitious, befitting of one of cinema’s most imaginative storytellers

Hostile Dimensions review – goofy no-budget horror opens portal to a parallel world

When a graffiti artist vanishes through a freestanding door, two film-makers open up a wittily told mystery

Reservoir Dogs actor Michael Madsen arrested on domestic violence charge

Kill Bill star arrested for domestic battery in Malibu after ‘a disagreement’ with his wife

Between the Temples review – Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane charm in quirky comedy

Actors sell an unusual, compelling friendship as a widower reconnects with an old teacher in this thoughtful film

Audrey review – a deliciously snarky comedy about a girl in a coma

Jackie van Beek and Hannah Diviney star in Natalie Bailey’s feature debut, which explores a thorny taboo with gallows humour

James Cameron: ‘It’s harder to write sci-fi because we’re living in a sci-fi world’

The blockbuster director talks his new docuseries, ideas for a potential new Terminator film and responds to Roland Emmerich’s claim that he’s ‘overbearing’

Cadejo Blanco review – compelling performances in slow-burn drug gang thriller

Lead Karen Martínez is impressive as a young woman searching for her sister among drug gangs in Guatemala in Justin Lerner’s suspenseful movie

Lights, camera, comfy furnishings: why the ‘beige chic’ of Nancy Meyers is having a revival

In her hit romcoms, the director’s sets were as popular as the films. Now trending on social media more than a decade after her last movie, her coveted look is back

Noah’s Ark review – Old Testament’s got talent in biblical kids’ animation

The animals on Noah’s ark have a singing contest under the eye of a familiar leonine villain, amid a flood of unoriginal gags

Lore review – Brit-horror anthology tells its gruesome stories around the campfire

Richard Brake is well cast as the host for this portmanteau of grisly yarns, where the girls’ tales are made of stronger stuff than the boys’

Clandestina review – artists fighting fascists in Portugal in the 1950s – and the present day

The words of artist-activist Margarida Tengarrinha ground Maria Mire’s feature debut, which evokes a lineage of political dissent through ambiguous visual sequences

Faye review – where are all the hair-raising stories of Dunaway’s nightmare behaviour?

This misty-eyed homage to Bonnie and Clyde star Faye Dunaway (with her involvement) papers over her reputation for being difficult – but is still a troubling portrait

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