Little Trouble Girls review – monstrous choirmaster spikes a sublime Catholic coming-of-age tale

Utterly absorbing Slovenian debut reinvents the cliched idea of a Catholic girl’s sexual awakening, and proves that no teacher can be as cruel as a music teacher

Concessions review – moviegoer melancholy for Michael Madsen’s final film

Madsen cameos as a stuntman visiting a smalltown movie theatre on its last day before closing down in this amiable, bittersweet story for cinephiles

The Memory Blocks review – playful and purposeful exploration of developmental disorders

Andrew Kötting’s complex docu-essay about his daughter Eden, who has Joubert syndrome, refuses conventional grammar

Beast of War review – a gung-ho second world war movie, with a great white twist

Kiah Roache-Turner’s latest splatterific effort is a blast, following a squadron of Australian troops who must try to survive ‘a pissed-off 20-foot fish’ in the Timor Sea

‘Our director is a madman’: a century on, Gloria Swanson’s disastrous film Queen Kelly is finished

The Hollywood icon played a convent girl falling for a prince in this bizarre film directed by Erich von Stroheim. Decades after it was abandoned, Queen Kelly will now be shown at the Venice film festival

One More Shot review – what if you could turn back time … via a magical tequila?

This Australian time-loop comedy starring Emily Browning, Aisha Dee and Ashley Zukerman is pleasingly derivative

Mare’s Nest review – an opaque, challenging reflection on the end of the world

Ben Rivers’s cine-poem, based on Don DeLillo’s climate crisis play The Word for Snow, follows a child’s strange encounters as she wanders in a postapocalyptic world devoid of adults

The Birthday Party review – Willem Dafoe is the life and soul as menacing Onassis-alike

A charismatic Dafoe commands the screen as a Greek alpha-patriarch, throwing a claustrophobic celebration for his second favourite child

Venice film festival to showcase big hitters George Clooney, Emma Stone, Julia Roberts – and the Rock

Prestige titles grabbing some glamour include Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and Jim Jarmusch’s all-star Father Mother Sister Brother, while Jude Law plays Putin

Toronto film festival: Angelina Jolie, Saoirse Ronan and Keanu Reeves lead lineup

The 50th edition of the Canadian film festival will also feature world premieres starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Sydney Sweeney and Matthew McConaughey

Stellan Skarsgård on Ingmar Bergman: ‘The only person I know who cried when Hitler died’

Actor spoke at Karlovy Vary film festival about his experience working with ‘manipulative’ director in the 80s

Melbourne international film festival 2025: the 10 movies you must see this year

Our picks include a Tilda Swinton musical, an ode to porridge, Orwell’s life unpacked and the final stage of the story of Gulpilil

Latest Daniel Craig Knives Out movie Wake Up Dead Man will open London film festival

Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin and Mila Kunis will also star in third murder mystery featuring Craig as private eye

Full set of Sean Connery Bond movies heads up Edinburgh film festival programme

All six of Connery’s ‘official’ 007 films will be screened in 4K restorations, with big names including Andrea Riseborough, Peter Dinklage and Renée Zellweger also on show

Idris Elba: ‘I want to build the African Odeon’

Speaking at an SXSW London event, the actor outlined his desire to ignite the cinema experience for a new generation across the continent