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Fuze review – twisty London-set heist thriller should have stolen some personality

Scottish director David Mackenzie recruits Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Theo James for a caper heavy on double-crossing but light on style

The Lost Bus review – Paul Greengrass wildfire movie is as stressful as you’d expect

The director retells the worst wildfire in California’s history with expected technical prowess but he’s hampered by a soapy script

Move over fashion week: Chanel and Dior soft launch creations at Venice film festival

Big brands use red carpets and gondolas in Italian city to show looks from newly installed designers

Obsession review – nasty horror sees a wish for true love go horribly wrong

Writer-director Curry Barker follows up $800 YouTube hit Milk & Serial with a frighteningly effective, and head-smashingly gory, cautionary tale

Christy review – Sydney Sweeney fights a losing battle in cliched boxing biopic

The rising star makes for a convincing boxer inside the ring in David Michôd’s by-the-numbers drama but flounders when outside

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

The Choral review – Ralph Fiennes makes pleasant music in low-volume drama

The actor is a reliably committed presence in this gentle Alan Bennett-scripted first world war tale which might have worked better on stage

Saipan review – football scandal makes for thrilling big-screen drama

Steve Coogan and a knockout Éanna Hardwicke take on Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane in this involving workplace drama about a 2002 tabloid storm

‘Humanity is facing a reckoning’: Venice film festival shrugs off the glamour to take aim at politics

Stars waved as usual from the city’s water taxis, but there was a repeated focus on films that help audiences interpret a chaotic world

Meet your descendants – and your future self! A trip to Venice film festival’s extended reality island

A flourishing lineup of immersive storytelling experiments are taking visitors into novels, nightclubs and outer space

Erupcja review – Charli xcx gives acting a trial run in shallow friendship drama

Musician fails to make much of an impression in a slight and unpolished project filmed in Warsaw over the Brat summer of 2024

The Voice of Hind Rajab review – provocative docufiction is fierce, urgent and heart-shattering

In an audacious move, director Kaouther Ben Hania reconstructs the killing of the five-year-old in Gaza using her real voice as she is bombarded by the Israeli army

From Knives Out 3 to Soderbergh: 10 films to look out for at the Toronto film festival 2025

Stars including Daniel Craig, Michaela Coel, Keanu Reeves and Channing Tatum to present latest films to big audiences

The Voice of Hind Rajab gets 23-minute ovation at Venice film festival

Film about five-year-old girl killed by Israeli forces in Gaza leaves much of audience and many journalists sobbing

Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Mescal, Lynne Ramsay and George Clooney set for London film festival

The festival marks the return of Day-Lewis to the screen in a film directed by his son, while a roster of urgent political films also form part of this year’s slate

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