The Outrun: My real life as an alcoholic, played out on the big screen

The film version of the best-selling memoir ably blurs the lines between fact and fiction of recovering on the tiny isle of Papay

‘I’m an ordinary man who plays crazy parts’: John Lithgow on tackling Roald Dahl

When John Lithgow got the role of author and antisemite Roald Dahl, friends feared for his safety. He reveals why he’s never been one to shy from a challenge

‘I filed my copy from Waterloo station loos’: the Guardian’s theatre critics assess The Critic

Ian McKellen plays a theatre reviewer in the 1930s in the new film adapted from Anthony Quinn’s novel Curtain Call – but how accurate is it?

Is the fizz up to Edith Wharton’s standards? The joys of launching a book

A party supported by pals who made it through rush hour rain was appropriate for an anthology celebrating female friendship

The Critic review – Ian McKellen’s poison pen sharpens 30s society cosy-crime drama

As a jaundiced reviewer with a dangerous private life, McKellen brings glorious life to this story of sour toffs in a dishonest decade

The Vourdalak review – deviously fun horror is très drôle vampire chamber piece

A foppish French aristocrat encounters a clan of peasants and their blood-sucking patriarch in a deliriously camp period yarn

Pedro Almodóvar: ‘Life needs fiction to make it bearable’

The Spanish film-maker on the raw, real life experiences behind his first collection of short stories – and why his mother is his inspiration

Queer review – Daniel Craig is needy, horny and mesmeric in Guadagnino’s erotic drama

Craig plays an American expat living indolently in Mexico City in this sometimes uproarious adaptation of William Burroughs’ autobiographical novel

Harvest review – Athina Rachel Tsangari’s folk non-horror is an exasperating experience

Dastardly deeds are afoot in an imagined medieval village with unscrupulous landowners in this directionless study of inauthenticity

The star who was left out in the cold: will Gary Oldman ever play Smiley again?

Oldman got an Oscar nomination for his turn as John le Carré’s rumpled spymaster. So what’s stopping a repeat performance?

I’m Still Here review – loving family negotiates the horror of Brazil’s military rule

Walter Salles’s first drama feature since 2012 tells the story of the Paivas, whose sunny 70s existence is wrecked by the arrest and disappearance of their father

The Order review – Jude Law leads neo-Nazi-hunting thriller with confident authority

Law is commanding opposite an icy Nicholas Hoult in true-crime story about the takedown of a far right militia in the 1980s

And Their Children After Them review – racism and revenge festers in smalltown France

Nineties-set drama adapted from the bestselling novel zeroes in on tensions in a post-industrial community, sparked by a feud over a motorbike

The Count of Monte Cristo review – a good-looking gallop through Dumas’ tale of revenge

Pierre Niney plays the man behind the multiple masks in this fast-moving adaptation that needs a touch more finesse

Touch review – unashamedly emotional love story travels back to the 1960s

Baltasar Kormákur’s beautifully shot romance sees Kristófer try to track down Miko, a lifetime after their youthful love affair is unexpectedly cut short