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Wildwood review – Laika’s pleasingly old fashioned stop-motion magic-forest odyssey

The makers of Coraline return with their distinctive animation style in a magical tale of a secret world of strange beasts, talking animals and evil governesses

Peter Bradshaw20h ago

Ray Gunn review – Brad Bird’s animated film-noir sci-fi caper is an old-school family classic

Sam Rockwell voices the gumshoe who becomes embroiled with Scarlett Johansson’s femme fatale in this big-hearted and beautifully designed fantasy spectacular

Peter Bradshaw1d ago

‘I just wasn’t going to give up’: the fight to free the longest-serving political prisoner in the US

Leonard Peltier was imprisoned for 49 years before his sentence was commuted. A new Netflix documentary exposes the ‘corrupt’ system that allowed it to happen

Adrian Horton2d ago

14th review – Ava DuVernay’s galvanizing documentary is a remarkable achievement

New York film festival: the director has made a fascinating and troubling companion piece to her Netflix documentary 13th, which takes a fiery look at American injustice

Adrian Horton2d ago

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In the Shadows review – true tale of Ramla Ali’s remarkable rise through the boxing ranks is a knockout

Jasmine Jobson goes the distance as the British-Somalian boxer battling pain from her past and her family’s disapproval in a heavyweight, tick-the-boxes production

Peter Bradshaw2d ago

Stark warning – does new footage in Avengers: Endgame reveal the truth about Doctor Doom?

Warning: contains spoilersThe four short scenes added to the new version has made the film the highest-grossing of all time – but the only people really enjoying this are the Disney accountants

Ben Child2d ago

Tenzing review – reconstruction of first summit of Everest puts Sherpa at the centre of the story

Genden Phuntsok brings charm and innocence to his portrayal of Tenzing Norgay, while Tom Hiddleston is suitably frank as Edmund Hillary

Peter Bradshaw2d ago

Other Mommy review – Jessica Chastain’s demonic double horror isn’t nightmarish enough

There’s some effectively unnerving imagery and a cleverly icy dual lead performance but this kept-from-critics shocker is a bit of a jumble

Benjamin Lee2d ago

Lost generation: the AI threat to Britain’s next great directors

Commercials once launched careers from Ridley Scott to Guy Ritchie, now automated production is cutting costs – and the chance to learn by doing

Mark Sweney2d ago

The new Darth Vader: how tech execs became the film villains of our age

Jeremy Strong’s portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Reckoning shows how public opinion has changed around billionaire CEOs since The Social Network’s release

Dan Milmo Global technology editor2d ago

‘Is death necessary?’: why Peter Greenaway’s assisted dying drama is stuck in post-production hell

Exclusive: Three years after filming began on the contentious Lucca Mortis, starring Dustin Hoffman, the British director is still in dispute with producers over which version to release, and a battle over rights rumbles on

Geoffrey Macnab3d ago

Animals review – Ben Affleck’s dull Netflix thriller is lacking in bark and bite

Actor-director’s listless LA-set crime thriller makes for a surprisingly anonymous effort and one that feels very similar to many other, better films

Jesse Hassenger3d ago

Matchbox: the Movie review – as pointless as a film based on a toy car could be

John Cena and Jessica Biel collect paychecks in a soulless and synthetic slab of corporate product that hints at what we can expect from the Paramount-Warner merger

Benjamin Lee3d ago

Letter: Louise Lasser obituary

Jed Falby: the actor Louise Lasser worked out a short Birds Eye ad with me second by second: it was funny, and it worked

Jed Falby3d ago

Good night, and good lick: what can we expect from George Clooney’s restaurant?

The newly-official French citizen is planning to open an Italian restaurant in Provence. Will it float like his tequila brand or sink as swiftly as the Steven Spielberg submarine eatery that made one reviewer ‘embarrassed to be human’?

Stuart Heritage3d ago

Can Ali G: Who Iz I? save character comedy cinema?

Sacha Baron Cohen’s new film risks being outdated in a more rancorous era. But could it restore the personality-driven genre to big screens or end it altogether?

Phil Hoad3d ago

Big Girls Don’t Cry review – a New Zealand teenager finds herself in tender coming-of-age tale

Writer-director Paloma Schneideman’s wonderful film follows a 14-year-old in 2006 who pretends to be someone else in a chat room, with real-world consequences

Luke Buckmaster4d ago

The Uprising review – Paul Greengrass turns revolutionary rage into a Robin Hood origin myth

Andrew Garfield’s fictional ploughman joins the historical heroes of the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt in a dirt-caked, docudrama-style film with disconcertingly silly moments

Peter Bradshaw4d ago

Will the Zuckerberg, Musk and Altman movies make a dent on tech giant evangelism?

The triple release of The Social Reckoning, Musk and Artificial is less a clear political stance, more like movie studio opportunism

Rory Doherty4d ago

The Social Reckoning review – Aaron Sorkin’s jittery sequel with all-new evil puppet Zuckerberg

Jeremy Strong’s slow-talking Facebook founder turns into a cameo, background to a thriller about a whistleblower that somehow never mentions Trump