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The Sheep Detectives review – Hugh Jackman gives a flock in baa-rking mad cosy crime caper

Jackman plays the farmer in this Babe-style feelgood family film about plucky sheep who help solve a murder

Is Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike’s new gender swap comedy inspired by The Two Ronnies?

Long-running 80s sketch The Worm That Turned imagined a dystopian world run by women, inspired by the election of Margaret Thatcher. It has not aged well – yet it bears similarities to a brand-new movie

Fallen Angels review – Rose Byrne is utterly delightful in Noël Coward comedy revival

Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara are comic gems in a pitch-perfect revival that sparkles like champagne

Roommates review – Netflix broken friendship comedy is a sweet and salty treat

The streamer has strangely kept this witty and detailed college comedy from critics but it’s far better than one has come to expect

‘This craving to go viral is tiresome’: the artists sick of the pressure to promote on social media

From Stewart Lee in his wolf costume to Werner Herzog’s big steak sizzle-up, artists are now under huge duress to ‘chase the algorithm’ and reach audiences. Many of them are hitting burnout – and hitting back

Fortune Feimster: ‘The stage was a crate, the sound system was a karaoke machine. No one enjoyed the show’

The standup on playing a beaver in Zootropolis 2, being inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger and why her mother is a great source of comedy

Outcome review – Keanu Reeves sends himself up in Jonah Hill’s Hollywood satire

Hill writes and directs in-joke and insider-laden spoof about a nice-guy mega-star actor hiding a drug addiction, whose career is threatened when he’s blackmailed over a compromising video

You, Me & Tuscany review – slick romcom offers solidly charming getaway

Halle Bailey and Regé-Jean Page flirt their way through expected genre tropes in a watchable, if a little unspecific, slice of formulaic fantasy

The Stranger review – lustrously beautiful and superbly realised modern take on the Camus classic

François Ozon’s adaptation of the 1942 novella L’Etranger passionately honours the original text while bringing a contemporary perspective to its themes of empire and race

Slither review – James Gunn’s Troma-style comedy horror debut gets a reboot in reputational glow-up

DC Universe supremo Gunn’s thinly conceived debut feature gets a glossy repackaging for seemingly no other reason than his later success

Dracula review – Romania’s most reliable export is focus of knockabout cut-up satire

Notionally about the vampire, Radu Jude’s new movie involves a bizarre troupe of actors doing a floor-show routine

Ghost Killer review – fantastic karate chopping and gunslinging in in supernatural action-comedy

Top notch choreography features heavily in tale of a student who is inhabited by an assassin’s spirit determined to wreak revenge

Two Women review – sex comedy remake is French-Canadian answer to Confessions of a Window Cleaner

This tale of a pair of women who tire of their partners and arrange sex with strangers is not sexy enough for erotica and not real enough to be drama

Shaun Micallef: ‘Charlie Pickering said that’s the only thing keeping him going – to vanquish me’

The comedian and author on writing a gothic novel, giving up butter and the film he has watched 30 times

DJ Ahmet review – totally charming tale of teen travails in North Macedonia

A young shepherd besotted with his neigbour rigs up his tractor to play music from so she can practise dance routines in a story that remains sunny without hiding hardship

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