Train Dreams review – Joel Edgerton superb in Malickian story of trees, grief and railroads
A logger clears a path for change in this sunset-hour-tastic adaptation by Clint Bentley – clearly a director of considerable power and feeling
Horror show: North American box office records lowest monthly total since 1997
Halloween weekend failed to make numbers jump, adding up to the weakest monthly performance – other than during the pandemic – for three decades
My Father’s Shadow looms over competition at British independent film awards
Akinola Davies Jr’s Nigeria-set drama has 12 nominations including best film and besr director
Winter in Sokcho review – atmospheric slow-burner about family and intimacy in South Korean border city
Koya Kamura’s debut film is about shared identities at the centre of quiet, chilly drama as an enigmatic French writer visits the eponymous town
What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism is more urgent than ever
With mystery still surrounding Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death, the poet and film-maker’s warnings of corruption and rising totalitarianism offer a chilling message for our times
Down Cemetery Road to Florence + the Machine: the week in rave reviews
Emma Thompson lights up a new thriller from Slow Horses author Mick Herron, and the singer-songwriter is back with more bombastic chamber pop. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews
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