Maria review – Angelina Jolie plays the diva in magnificent stroll around the cult of Callas

Jolie is a painting to be stared at in Pablo Larraín’s opulent drama, tottering around Paris in the 70s and drawing us in to tragedy as thoroughly as Bellini or Puccini

Riefenstahl review – deep-dive study takes down the Nazis’ favourite director

Andres Veiel shows how the film-maker loved by Hitler hit the heights with her Berlin Olympics movie – and how she tried and failed to save her Nazi-tinged reputation

Cate Blanchett says there is a ‘distinct lack of shame’ in modern society

Actor says ‘we all have dark sides’ and criticises ‘public shaming’ before premiere of Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer

Sing Sing review – Colman Domingo is larger than life in big-hearted prison drama

Inspired by a project that uses the arts for rehabilitation, this is an uplifting, energetic film – but Domingo’s showy performance is a little out of place

Separated review – Errol Morris’s quietly furious takedown of Trump’s inhumane border policy

Morris’s forensic account of those who implemented family separation makes for harrowing viewing

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review – Tim Burton sequel takes retro joyride through old haunts

Burton’s game attempt to bring the 1980s horror-comedy back from the spirit world is full of gaudy set-pieces but fails to add much to the original

Tim Burton admits he was a ‘little lost’ in career before Beetlejuice sequel

The new film based on the 1988 cult horror, featuring the original cast, will open the Venice film festival

Black Dog review – state-of-the-Chinese-nation drama with feelgood furry antics

A squadron of dog catchers, sent into the Gobi desert to round up a bevy of hounds, adds stark absurdism to this commentary on Chinese society

Maria Callas, Lady Gaga and divas of a different stripe: Peter Bradshaw’s picks of the Venice film festival

Meaty roles for Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig and George Clooney will feature alongside premieres of intense dramas from across the globe

Lollipop review – impassioned, head-butting indictment of the social-care system

Informed by her own experiences, Daisy-May Hudson’s portrait of a woman trying to regain custody of her kids is surprisingly even-handed

Edinburgh film festival 2024: 12 of the best movies on show

From uplifting drama to gonzo body-horror and an intensely personal documentary, here are our favourite picks

‘Rebuilt from scratch’: how Edinburgh international film festival got back on its feet

Following its closure two years ago, the festival returns with world premieres, a new £50,000 prize and a focus on industry in a format that has had a ‘radical rethink’

Ellis Park review – like its subject, Warren Ellis documentary moves to the beat of its own drum

Justin Kurzel’s film about the Bad Seeds and Dirty Three musician, and the animal sanctuary he founded in Indonesia with activist Femke den Haas, is richly cinematic

Lyrical, cheeky, galvanising: the queer film-maker who captured Australia’s Aids crisis

The work of the late Stephen Cummins remains an archive of joy amid the gloom – and it’s screening at a Melbourne retrospective

Luce review – enigmatic Italian drama of dreams and drones

A young woman’s breakdown – or is it an epiphany? – in coastal Italy, in Luca Bellino and Silvia Luzi’s film, does not surrender its meaning easily