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Endurance review – search for Shackleton’s Antarctic wreck overshadowed by history

Shackleton’s truly perilous 1915 ordeal – gussied up with colourised footage and AI voices – minimises the stakes of a 2022 hunt for its remains by Dan Snow and friends

Dance Umbrella: Mamela Nyamza: Hatched Ensemble; The Featherstonehaughs Draw on the Sketchbooks of Egon Schiele – review

This year’s festival opens with a formally rigorous work from the South African choreographer and a film premiere from Lea Anderson

Superboys of Malegaon review – boisterous heartwarmer about movie-loving underdogs

Inspired by a true story, this feelgood Indian film is about some Bollywood superfans making their own movies with a cheeky but admirable DIY ethos

A Traveler’s Needs review – Isabelle Huppert hypnotises in cool Korean comedy of manners

Huppert plays Iris, a modestly dressed French woman living in Korea who gives French lessons according to a strange procedure of her own that does not seem to involve speaking French

Blitz review – Steve McQueen’s rousing wartime adventure is surprisingly old-fashioned

The director unexpectedly channels The Railway Children as Saoirse Ronan stars as the single mother whose son is evacuated, only to run away in a perilous bid to find her

Almodóvar in English, McQueen at war and Jolie on song: Peter Bradshaw’s picks of the London film festival

Tilda Swinton facing life and death, Saoirse Ronan searching wartime London and Pablo Larraín retelling a grand diva’s last days are just a few of this year’s must-sees

Bunting, bobbies and Doctor Who phone boxes: Dinard, the French film festival that’s mad for Britain

Every autumn, a seaside resort in Brittany hosts a charming festival that celebrates only low-budget, independent British and Irish films. Is this a curious case for Poirot?

‘I wasn’t interested in Churchill’: Steve McQueen on the ‘ordinary people’ in his film Blitz

Director’s second world war feature is a grimy, chaotic look at Londoners navigating their way through hell

Nickel Boys review – Colson Whitehead novel becomes intensely moving story of a racist reform school

Adaptation of Whitehead’s novel about two young friends trapped by institutional abuse is told with piercing beauty by RaMell Ross

On Falling review – the strip mining of an online warehouse worker’s sanity

Laura Carreira’s impressive debut drama sees a quietly excellent Joana Santos endure dehumanising work conditions while looking for a way out

From The Brutalist to Conclave: what is the state of this year’s Oscar race?

With most of the year’s awards-aiming films now premiered at fests, potential nominees are starting to fall into place

The End review – Joshua Oppenheimer’s end-of-days musical is ambitious and exhausting

The documentarian makes his hit-and-miss narrative debut with help from Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon as privileged parents in a luxury bunker

Saturday Night review – tedious SNL origins tale is an unfunny misfire

Toronto film festival: Jason Reitman’s 70s-set comedy detailing the first-ever episode of Saturday Night Live is a dull and self-indulgent mess

The Piano Lesson review – powerful yet patchy August Wilson drama

Fantastic performances from Danielle Deadwyler and Samuel L Jackson enliven a soulful, if imbalanced, Netflix adaptation

Better Man review – Robbie Williams chimpanzee biopic is a bananas gamble that pays off

The life of the ego-driven showman is turned into an unlikely yet surprisingly entertaining saga with a CGI chimp in the lead

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