Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc review – gore-soaked demonic anime squats in the manosphere
Tatsuki Fujimoto’s coming-of-age saga continues with a surreal encounter with a chainsaw-wielding demon living in a teenager’s soul
Nobody Wants This to Lily Allen: the week in rave reviews
Kristen Bell’s sex podcaster and Adam Brody’s hot rabbi return with more romcom angst, while the Smile singer’s new record is a sharp autopsy of marital betrayal. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews
Statue of Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones to be unveiled in London
The character created by Helen Fielding and played by Zellweger in four films, is to be immortalised in bronze in Leicester Square where it will become a permanent fixture
Chain Reactions review – famous fans of Texas Chain Saw Massacre go deep into the legendary slasher
Stephen King, Takashi Miike and Karyn Kusama are among the contributors to this documentary about Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror masterpiece
100 Nights of Hero review – Emma Corrin leads starry cast in a queer fable with a serious streak
Gender, sexuality, status and power are all in flux in Julia Jackman’s playful medieval fairytale, adapted from Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel, also starring Maika Monroe and Charli xcx
The Uncool by Cameron Crowe review – inside rock’s wildest decade
From shadowing a cocaine-addled David Bowie to winning over Joni Mitchell, deliciously readable tales by the director of Almost Famous
Spare us from romcom Austen. Give me the dark side of 19th-century life any day
Why sanitise or sugarcoat the classics? New adaptations of Austen and Brontë could explore everything from slavery to death in childbirth, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
The platform exposing exactly how much copyrighted art is used by AI tools
From 007 to Elsa, Vermillio claims it can trace percentage of AI-generated image drawn from pre-existing material
Riot Women to Sunlight: the week in rave reviews
Sally Wainwright brings us a superb drama about women of a certain age forming a punk band, and Nina Conti’s monkey makes for an unlikely movie star. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews
‘Time to take the big leap’: Reese Witherspoon’s first novel hits the shelves
Oscar-winning actor and producer has written Gone Before Goodbye with bestselling author Harlan Coben
& Sons review – Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton’s riveting showdown rescues a laborious plot
Nighy stars as a boozy literary has-been and Staunton his estranged wife in Pablo Trapero’s unconvincing adaptation of David Gilbert’s 2013 novel
Don’t Look Now review – Du Maurier’s Venetian chiller has its dread shredded
A couple mourn the loss of their daughter in an adaptation that is far better at conveying sadness than suspense
Ballad of a Small Player review – Colin Farrell seeks redemption in Edward Berger’s high-stakes gambling yarn
Debts, secrets and a cartoonish Tilda Swinton catch up with Farrell’s self-styled ‘Lord Doyle’ as he confronts his own destiny in a chance to win salvation
‘A photographer with a cool and deadly eye’: Diane Keaton’s creativity behind the lens
The Oscar-winning actor and style icon was also a prolific photographer, collector and curator whose lifelong fascination with images revealed a sharp, singular way of seeing the world
‘Almost 30m plays on Spotify!’ When fake bands hit the real-life big time, from Spinal Tap to the Flaming Dildos
How do you invent a convincing fictional band for your play, film or novel? And what happens if they actually top the charts? The creators of Scott Pilgrim, the Commitments, Stereophonic and more reveal all