Ebony & Ivory review – definitely not Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder in silly, surreal indie comedy
A pop icon and a musical legend meet on the Mull of Kintyre in 1981 and dress up as sheep in Jim Hosking’s daft, deadpan offering
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey review – Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell play the game of love
Giddy romantic fantasy sends its two commitment-phobe leads on a magical road trip through their pasts that may lead them back to love
Bad Man review – southern-fried script and idiosyncratic locals lift gun totin’ black comedy
Seann William Scott turns up to take over a small town murder, in this crime flick with a blokey, improv flavour
‘I laugh out loud’: why Johnny Stecchino is my feelgood movie
The latest in our ongoing series of writers remembering their go-to comfort picks is a tribute to Roberto Benigni’s Italian comedy farce
The Wrong Paris review – Netflix Bachelor romcom makes few right choices
Miranda Cosgrove plays a woman involved in some reality show drama in another of the streamer’s many low-grade background watches
Eternity review – it’s a charming afterlife in high-concept love triangle comedy
Elizabeth Olsen must choose who she spends eternity with in an often ingenious throwback that can’t quite stick the landing
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review – rockers return for mockusequel of pin-sharp laughs and melancholy
Enter the Tapocalypse as Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Rob Reiner return in a still-funny, cameo-studded telling of the hapless band’s final gig
From Ground Zero: Stories From Gaza review – scenes of ordinary life in extremis
This heartbreaking collection of short films mentions neither ‘Israel’ nor ‘Hamas’, instead offering a mosaic of everyday living under nonstop attack
Poetic License review – Apatow family affair ends up as warm and funny comedy
Judd Apatow’s actor daughter Maude directs her mother Leslie Mann in a smart, charming film about a woman adrift finding unlikely younger friends
Sacrifice review – starry satire pokes fun at celebrity before falling into a volcano
Chris Evans is excellent as a vain actor kidnapped by an eco-terrorism cult in an initially amusing comedy of performative politics that falls apart
Good Fortune review – Aziz Ansari’s big comeback comedy struggles to find big laughs
The multi-hyphenate’s directorial debut has noble intentions in its timely class commentary but his brand of humour makes for an awkward fit
California Schemin’ review – James McAvoy’s directorial debut is an unlikely rap tale
The actor makes for a hit-and-miss first time film-maker with the undeniably involving true story of Scottish rappers who pretended to be American
Borderline review – Raymond Nicholson shines as a deranged fan in comedy thriller
It’s the 1990s and a famous pop star is taken hostage by a fan in Jimmy Warden’s stylish but confused film, loosely inspired by a real-life stalker case involving Madonna
Signs of Life review – no holiday from raw grief in downbeat Lanzarote-set drama
Sarah-Jane Potts speaks volumes without saying a word as a bereaved, selectively mute woman travelling alone who meets a talkative Irishman
The best theatre to stream this month: Basil’s back as Fawlty Towers reopens for business
John Cleese’s stage version of his beloved sitcom, a cast recording of Cornish musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Robert Wilson’s production of Handel’s Messiah are among September’s highlights