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Elon Musk biopic to be directed by Black Swan film-maker Darren Aronofsky

The Oscar-nominated film-maker will adapt the recent biography by Walter Isaacson after independent studio A24 won a ‘heated’ bidding war for rights

Leo: Bloody Sweet review – leave your logic at the door for rampaging action yarn

The Tamil version of David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence is wildly enjoyable, packed full of hyenas, car chases, fight scenes and, of course, song and dance

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes review – back to an empty future

Prequel to the hit teen dystopia recruits Rachel Zegler and Jason Schwartzman to labour over IP that is now starved of inspiration

Stamped from the Beginning review – tracing racism throughout American history

Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams talks to high-profile Black women in a hybrid documentary/animation based on Dr Ibram X Kendi’s landmark book

A Forgotten Man review – watchable account of central figure in Swiss wartime guilt

Laurent Nègre’s stagey film is also a free adaptation of Thomas Hürlimann’s play on the same subject, and may have worked better in the theatre

‘Hollywood doesn’t change overnight’: Indigenous viewers on Killers of the Flower Moon

Martin Scorsese’s epic adaptation of David Grann’s nonfiction book has received mixed notices from Native viewers, praising its existence yet with vital caveats

Butcher’s Crossing review – Nicolas Cage keeps quiet in buffalo-hunting western

Cage leads a strong cast into the wilderness in an adaptation of John Williams’ punishing novel that cannot quite convey the full horror of its events

I Am Urban review – powerful memoir of lost children in Leeds is played for larks

A strong cast including an intense turn from Fraser Kelly as the 11-year-old title character can’t stop the gritty ambition of the story sliding into schmaltz

Doctor Jekyll review – Eddie Izzard in gender-flipped reboot of Hammer horror

Casting Izzard as billionaire scientist Nina, a new incarnation for the classic story’s tormented hero, proves less intriguing than it sounds

Suitable Flesh review – eye-rolling Heather Graham in erotic body-swap horror thriller

Adapted from a 1937 HP Lovecraft story, this has some nice stylistic touches, even if the demonic possession, wafting sax and softcore silliness is a bit over the top

Will Smith: marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith is ‘sloppy public experiment in unconditional love’

At an event in Baltimore promoting Pinkett Smith’s new memoir Worthy, the actor described their tumultuous relationship as ‘brutal and beautiful’

Christine review – Stephen King’s evil car still has a one-track mind

John Carpenter’s enjoyably pulpy adaptation of King’s 1983 horror novel, about a car that infects its owners with evil, gets a 40th-anniversary revival

Don’t Look Now at 50: Nicolas Roeg’s mesmeric horror of inescapable grief

The acclaimed adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s short story remains a visually immersive descent and a chilling portrayal of loss

Starve Acre review – intelligent performances in sinister Yorkshire folk horror

Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark play an unhappy couple who have moved to the moors with their young son, and soon become entwined in the occult

Cassius X: Becoming Ali review – boxing legend’s story goes back to his roots

There’s a lot to enjoy, but nothing new, in this documentary that focuses on a key transitional period in Muhammad Ali’s life

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