Duchess review – sneers and smiles in noughties throwback Brit-crime revenger

A heroine who looks good in Lycra and a love interest with no chemistry don’t leave you wanting more, despite Duchess’s sequel-friendly ending

Missile attacks and masterpieces: Mike Figgis on the bravery of a film festival under fire in Ukraine

Ukraine’s war with Russia dominated the entries and trips to bomb shelters punctuated the Odesa film festival, but two rather wonderful films emerged

Dark summer: why film noirs often work better in the sunshine

A new collection of classics, from Niagara to Purple Noon, reminds us that the darkest acts can occur in broad daylight

Goodbye hot rodent, hello beefcake: the return of the hunk

Glen Powell leads Hollywood’s latest crop of muscled, charismatic men who ‘look like they came out of a 3D printer’

Together 99 review – quarter-century reunion for Lukas Moodysson’s Swedish commune comedy

Moodysson reunites the gang of hippies from his joyful 2000 sendup for a fun yet slightly sour sequel

The Weak and the Wicked/No Trees in the Street review – tough, old school British drama

★★★★☆ / ★★★☆☆Two of J Lee Thompson’s early films – a gritty women’s prison drama and a postwar crime thriller – serve as a reminder that the director deserves more kudos as an artist

Rebel Moon: what do Zack Snyder’s extravagant Netflix director’s cuts add?

The director has brought extended and explicit new versions of his critically lambasted Rebel Moon movies to the streaming platform, for better or worse

The Last Human review – despair and hope for Greenland youth in crosshairs of climate peril

Ivalo Frank’s documentary draws in deep science about the origins of life on Earth along with warm portraits of the young people who face environmental crisis

The second act of Sam Neill: ‘The truth was, I didn’t know how long I had to live’

He is one of the world’s best actors – but can still go to Starbucks without anyone recognising him. He discusses cancer, remission, happiness, fame and video nasties

Harold and the Purple Crayon review – sketchy live-action adaptation

Uncharismatic Zachary Levi plays the 50s children’s character whose drawings spring to life in a film lifted by Clement’s villainous novelist

A Place Called Silence review – suspenseful Malaysian high school horror reboot

Sam Quah’s entertaining but caricature-filled Chinese remake of his 2022 film about bullying and worse has been a box-office hit across Asia

Alma’s Rainbow review – 90s New York tale of Black womanhood and sexuality is worth the wait

A teenager rebels against her mother’s respectable values in this 4K restoration of Ayoka Chenzira’s feature debut from 1994

British artist’s cartoons that inspired Bond films gifted to Oscars archive

John McLusky’s comic strips for the Express in the 50s and 60s came to define the character, as his son explains

Dìdi review – bittersweet Asian American coming-of-age drama

Wang’s award-winning debut is a tender, semi-autobiographical portrait of a 13-year-old skateboarder and his devoted immigrant mum in 00s California

Historian Richard J Evans: ‘I’m planning to write a book about pandemics next. I’ve had enough of Nazis’

The author of the definitive account of the Third Reich on revisiting nazism one last time, the ongoing need to discredit Holocaust denial and fact-checking Martin Amis’s novel The Zone of Interest