14th review – Ava DuVernay’s galvanizing documentary is a remarkable achievement

New York film festival: the director has made a fascinating and troubling companion piece to her Netflix documentary 13th, which takes a fiery look at American injustice

Hamlet’s goodbye, the last of Leigh, Birmingham blues and a vampire in Vienna: 12 great films at the London film festival

Our critic picks out some of the most outstanding cinema screening at the UK’s most prestigious film event in 2026

NAZA film-makers address threats at documentary’s New York City premiere

Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor defend findings on Israel’s killing of Palestinians amid threats from Israeli officials

Godzilla Minus Zero review – spectacular Japanese action continues franchise’s winning streak

The follow-up to 2023’s Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One dazzles with smart social commentary and jaw-dropping effects

Global release announced for acclaimed Gaza documentary NAZA

Theatrical rollout across 56 territories planned for documentary about Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza before film will stream on Guardian website

La Bola Negra wins Toronto film festival people’s choice award

The queer period drama wins Oscar-predicting award, being named the most popular audience film at the festival

Iranian actor Laleh Marzban faces severe threats after Venice film festival speech

Marzban, who won a best actress award for her portrayal of a woman held hostage by her father in Falling House, has received condemnations from authorities after dedicating her prize to ‘the women of Iran’

Queen at Sea review – crushingly sad dementia drama offers a startling portrait of intimacy

Driven by fine performances from Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall, Lance Hammer’s comeback is unbearable in its tragic candour and essential in its moral questioning

The Liberation review – Carrie Coon joins all-female cult in unsettling drama

Director Guy Nattiv draws on personal experience for an 80s-set tale of a woman abandoning her family for a creepy commune

A Talent for Murder review – Helen Mirren is a viperous Patricia Highsmith in hit-and-miss thriller

A fictionalised version of the cantankerous crime author plots a murder with an ambitious editor in a story in need of a sharper edge

Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo review – Takashi Miike follows Ferrara and Herzog with a disappointment

There’s a surprisingly tame quality to the gorehound’s contribution to the rough and ready franchise and a general aimlessness that frustrates

The Debut review – Julianne Moore is a thrill in Jesse Eisenberg’s oddball comedy

Riotous lead performance holds together third movie from actor turned film-maker, about a housewife who joins a local musical

Ancestors review – messy but moving ghostly drama about the Aids crisis

Saipan standout Éanna Hardwicke is a soulful gay man looking for a missing friend in a striking yet muddled debut

Prima Facie review – fiery one-woman play is flattened into a bland movie

Cynthia Erivo takes on the role Jodie Comer made famous for a pointless adaptation of a story about rape and retribution that loses the power it once had

Love of Your Life review – Margaret Qualley eats, grieves and loves in Amazon’s transporting saga

The actor gives one of her best performances to date in a smoothly made globe-trotting drama of a woman’s life after the loss of her husband