Venice’s brave new world: my cosmic trip to Immersion Island and back
On the Lazzaretto Vecchio, the small island home of Venice film festival’s Immersive section, I donned an XR headset and boldly went where most festivalgoers don’t
‘Very difficult to watch’: Priscilla Presley on new film about her life with Elvis
Movie is open in depicting singer’s grooming of her at age 14, but Presley maintains ‘he was the love of my life’
Evil Does Not Exist review – Ryu Hamaguchi’s enigmatic eco-parable eschews easy explanation
Compositional quirks and unhurried direction turn this tale of a Tokyo company buying up land near a pristine lake into a complex and mysterious drama
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial review – William Friedkin’s final film looks for the truth
A courtroom drama based on events in Herman Wouk’s second world war novel The Caine Mutiny, Friedkin leaves us with a worthy last effort
The Killer review – terrific David Fincher thriller about a philosophising hitman
Michael Fassbender is perfect in the main role of a yoga-loving assassin who discourses on everything from morality to the Smiths
The Beast review – Léa Seydoux’s audacious drama throbs with fear
Disaster appears imminent as Seydoux and an impressive George MacKay meet across three different eras in what is maybe Bertrand Bonello’s best movie yet
The Palace review – Roman Polanski’s tacky hotel farce is the worst party in town
Set in a hotel on New Year’s eve in 1999, this dismal comedy finds room for John Cleese, Mickey Rourke and Fanny Ardant, but you’ll want to run for the hills
Maestro review – Bradley Cooper’s head-flingingly heartfelt Leonard Bernstein biopic
Cooper’s impersonation of the great composer is eerily exact, and gets to the heart of the sacrifices great artists feel they need to make
Hoard review – a haunting study of loneliness and thwarted sexuality
Luna Carmoon’s deeply strange and compelling study of hysteria shows the ways in which childhood trauma can bloom in adult life
Season to be cheerful: 50 autumn arts events to make you forget the nights are drawing in
From outdoor festivals and big-screen spectaculars to binge-watches and thumb-twiddlers, all the TV, theatre, film, art, games, music and more you need to get through to Christmas
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar review – Wes Anderson’s short and sweet Roald Dahl tale
Anderson’s second Dahl adaptation is a droll 40 minutes of beautifully composed nested stories, with Benedict Cumberbatch as a gambler who learns how to beat the house
Poor Things review – Emma Stone has a sexual adventure in Yorgos Lanthimos’s virtuoso comic epic
Stone gives a hilarious, beyond-next-level performance as Bella Baxter, the experimental subject of a troubled Victorian anatomist, in Lanthimos’s toweringly bizarre comedy
Hollywoodgate review – a fascinating insight into the Taliban’s insular world
It’s no surprise that Ibrahim Nash’at’s documentary lacks in-depth interviews – his subjects barely tolerate his presence as he reveals the fighters’ lack of purpose after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Lanthimos, Scorsese and Miyazaki: London film festival lineup announced
The 12-day event will screen more than 200 films, including world premieres and much anticipated titles such as The Boy and the Heron, reputedly Hayao Miyazaki’s final film
Vanishing act: what happens when stars don’t show up for the red carpet?
As the Sag-Aftra strikes roll on, film schedules are being torn up and A-listers are ditching promotional duties. But what’s a film festival without the talent?