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A Life Like Any Other review – wonderfully moving look back at a mother’s resilience

Faustine Cros’s documentary revisits home videos from her childhood through fresh eyes having learned as an adult what her young self had missed

TV Tonight: astonishing story of film-maker who tracked tigers for decades

Conservationist’s personal and moving documentary follows big cat clan in northern India. Plus: a forensics team heads to a murder scene. Here’s what to watch tonight

‘The younger generation condemn us’: stars of Madwomen of the West hit back at cancel culture

Wokeness, gender fluidity, the audacity of ageing … Madwomen of the West is a play giving ‘women of a certain age’ a voice – and audiences are loving it. We meet two of its outspoken stars, Brooke Adams and Caroline Aaron

Tuesday review – Julia Louis-Dreyfus shines in fatalistic fairytale

A teenage girl is visited by death – in the form of a parrot – and her mother is having none of it in Daina O Pusić’s striking feature debut

Borderlands review – Cate Blanchett stalks her way through woeful video game adaptation

The Australian star heads a big-name cast who can do nothing to save Eli Roth’s incoherent sci-fi action comedy

The Instigators review – Matt Damon and Casey Affleck languish in heist caper misfire

Doug Liman directs the usually bankable duo in this disappointingly slow and predictable crime comedy

It Ends With Us review – Blake Lively stars in oddly frothy domestic abuse drama

Dark themes lurk behind the stylish veneer in this adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestseller, directed by co-star Justin Baldoni

Babes review – Pamela Adlon’s caustically funny pregnancy comedy

Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau fizz in the Better Things creator’s directorial debut, a rapid-fire riff on pregnancy, motherhood and female friendship

‘I see the world for what it is’: actor Naomi Ackie’s rage-fuelled rising star

Starring as Whitney Houston catapulted Naomi Ackie to fame – and drove her to exhaustion. She tells Hayley Campbell about channelling anger, coping with grief, and why she’s drawn to the dark side of life

Alicia Vikander: ‘If you’re depicting an abusive relationship, you can’t shy away’

The Oscar-winning Swedish star on keeping her head as Henry VIII’s last wife in a no-holds-barred reimagining of the Tudor court, the rise of AI – and why filming feels like first love

Radical review – Mexican inspirational teacher drama rises above genre cliches

Based on true events, this tale of a deprived school being turned on its head by the arrival of Mr Juárez feels fresh, largely thanks to its superb young cast

Mufasa: The Lion King, Snow White and Moana 2 trailers released

New footage from high profile films revealed at fan event, along with trailers for TV shows from the Marvel and Star Wars universes

Avatar, Tron, Fantastic Four and Star Wars: Disney rolls out raft of new films at fan event

The studio’s annual convention in Anaheim, California brought a blizzard of announcements for its most popular film series and franchises

Ozi: Voice of the Forest review – simian version of Greta Thunberg takes on evil corporation

Orangutan Ozi is a simian Greta Thunberg in a film whose excellent animation is let down by underdeveloped characters and blind faith in social media activism

From The Instigators to Bludfest: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Matt Damon and Casey Affleck star in a breezy Bostonian crime caper, while Doncaster’s favourite goth-pop pup, Yungblud, stages his own festival

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