‘I had to think about Andrew Tate. That was miserable’: 150 years of masculinity, all in one play

Revered for her work on Succession and Normal People, Alice Birch has now written an era-spanning play about men, novels and the manosphere. Give me a Brontë any day, she says

Tinseltown takeover: how Harry Potter fanfic has evolved into Hollywood’s hottest property

What once seemed a pretty fringe subculture of hobbyists riffing on stories that got them privately hot is now bringing mainstream cinema to a rolling boil

Andrea Sabbadini obituary

Psychoanalyst and writer who explored connections between film and the unconscious in a festival and several books

The Girlfriend to Jade: the week in rave reviews

The oedipal thriller with Robin Wright raises the household temperature to nail-biting, while Jade Thirlwall goes solo with groove. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews

The Man in My Basement review – Willem Dafoe is an unsettling guest in eerie psychodrama

Adapted for the screen from his own novel Walter Mosley examines power dynamics and racial tension with a deftly disquieting hand in this deeply strange parable

The Long Walk review – Stephen King death game dystopia is the grimmest mainstream movie for some time

Fifty young men compete in an endurance event, during which they are shot in the head at point-blank range if they slow down, in this horrific buddy story adaptation

‘It was a fair shot’: Anna Wintour belatedly gives her verdict on The Devil Wears Prada

The formidable Vogue boss said Meryl Streep’s subtle performance as a fictional fashion editor ‘had a lot of wit’ – adding that she attended the premiere wearing Prada without knowing its theme

Steve review – Cillian Murphy is outstanding in ferocious reform school drama

Adapted by Max Porter from his novella Shy and co-starring Little Simz, Emily Watson and Tracey Ullman this brutal but ultimately hopeful story is fiercely affecting

Jumanji review – startling 90s game fantasy adventure with Robin Williams in winning form

Williams is exuberant but controlled as elephants trample the town and a waterfall crashes down the stairs in bizarre fantasy that still holds up

Wuthering Heights: first trailer for Emerald Fennell’s erotic adaptation

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi lead the provocative Saltburn director’s unconventional adaptation of the novel

On Swift Horses review – Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar-Jones simmer in glossy drama of sex and identity

Things are not as hetero as they appear in this handsome melodrama framing the postwar period as one of searching for meaning beyond the picket fence

Post your questions for Keira Knightley

The Oscar-nominated star of Bend It Like Beckham, Pride and Prejudice and Atonement – and now children’s author – will answer your questions

‘Visceral, sensual wonders’: why The Talented Mr Ripley is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers detailing their most rewatched comfort films is a reminder of Anthony Minghella’s starry, sad and sinister 1999 thriller

The Wizard of the Kremlin review – Jude Law is Putin in adaptation of Kremlin spin doctor bestseller

The rise of Vladimir Putin, chillingly played by Law, is portrayed through the eyes of a wily insider, but Paul Dano’s protagonist cuts a one-note figure

Frankenstein review – Guillermo del Toro reanimates a classic as a monstrously beautiful melodrama

Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi star as the freethinking anatomist and his creature as Mary Shelley’s story is reimagined with bombast in the director’s unmistakable visual style