Imperium review – Sergei Loznitsa’s archive collage collates everyday life in cold-war Soviet Union

Venice film festival: The Two Prosecutors director cuts together documentary footage shot by a TV crew in the 1970s to try and get across what daily life in the USSR was like

Woman Unknown review – postwar paranoia with some deliciously dastardly Du Maurier touches

A nanny becomes the new lady of a prosperous Copenhagen house as accused Nazi sympathisers are violently shamed in May el-Toukhy’s shrewd, painful portrait of survival

Cult of male genius holding female film-makers back, says Woman Unknown director

May el-Toukhy says we must end veneration of male directors that causes ‘structural problem’ for women

Possible Love review – a tale of two couples is finely judged study of exploitation and friendship

Venice film festival: Acclaimed Korean director Lee Chang-dong returns with an inspired account of an unhappy married couple befriended by a documentary maker and her wealthy husband

Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger review – mammoth tour movie brings the joy and poignancy of reunion

The Gallagher brothers’ comeback concerts are given the full fan-worship treatment, but it’s impossible to begrudge the euphoria they have created

Robert Pattinson says he had ‘twice as much time’ after birth of first child

Actor says of busy 2026 in which he has had several big roles: ‘Once you start spinning plates, it gets quite addictive’

‘I don’t like the term neurodivergence – it sounds like political correctness’: Werner Herzog on fans, fanaticism and baby foxes

The Bavarian auteur talks directing Kate and Rooney Mara in Bucking Fastard and his popularity on Instagram

A Long Winter review – hope, desire and subversion in Andrew Haigh’s beautiful winter western

In a remote Colorado farmstead, a family with a mother gone missing finds a strange buoyancy and freedom as they wait for the snows to melt

Act 3 review – queer art history and life reflections from masters of metatextuality

Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s absorbing documentary is a parallel take on their relationship and a nascent drama on artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

The Basics of Philosophy review – Paul Schrader back to his cool, cruel best

When a figure from his past turns up to a family funeral, a college professor faces an agonising dilemma that makes him question his own morality and whether he can change

15/18 A Place to Heal review – heartfelt docu-realist study of a French teen psychiatric facility

Director Cédric Kahn combines compassion with coolly detailed forensic scrutiny in this genre-challenging film which puts a troubled love triangle at the centre of the story

Queer Edward II review – funny, touching time capsule of Derek Jarman at work

Venice film festival: Filmed during the making of his queer royal feature, while the director was living with HIV, the candid footage includes uproarious scenes at a Cliff Richard rehearsal

‘Many of us in Israel live in a state of shock at the savagery’: veteran director Amos Gitai returns to Gaza

The writer-director once called Israel’s ‘one-man New Wave’ is in Venice with The Road to Jericho, a new and poetic attempt to highlight the plight of those in the occupied West Bank

Wild Horse Nine review – Malkovich and Rockwell head to Easter Island for McDonagh’s acid bromance

Venice film festivalTwo men, some violence, much freewheeling chat: so far, so standard fare from the Oscar-winning writer-director. But this time the comedy and charm can feel diluted by blood and machismo

Bucking Fastard review – Herzog’s starry twins soap provokes a syncing feeling

Venice film festival: Rooney and Kate Mara play the real-life Chaplin sisters who spoke in unsettling unison in this silly, pointless drama