The Wizard of the Kremlin review – Jude Law is Putin in adaptation of Kremlin spin doctor bestseller

The rise of Vladimir Putin, chillingly played by Law, is portrayed through the eyes of a wily insider, but Paul Dano’s protagonist cuts a one-note figure

No Other Choice review – sensational state-of-the-nation satire from Park Chan-wook

An unemployed paper worker hatches a cunning plan to murder his way back into the job market in this continually surprising black comedy from the director of The Handmaiden and Oldboy

Jay Kelly review – even a George Clooney sizzle reel can’t save this dire Noah Baumbach effort

The affable star plays an affable star assessing his life and career at a Tuscan film festival in a wildly sentimental and self-indulgent piece of cine-narcissism

Bugonia review – Emma Stone might be an alien in Yorgos Lanthimos’s macabre conspiracy theory comedy

Jesse Plemons delivers an efficient punch as the fanatical Teddy who abducts Stone’s dead-eyed corporate ice queen in Lanthimos’s Korean remake

Olivia De Zilva: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

The Australian author shares what makes her laugh online, including a lot of Wendy Williams, Who? Weekly and Ice Cube’s 2025 take on War of the Worlds

Caught Stealing review – Darren Aronofsky’s violent, chaotic and highly enjoyable crime flick

After Mother! and The Whale, Aronofsky’s new movie centres on a washed-up alcoholic former baseball star’s encounters with a villainous underworld

In the Nguyen Kitchen review – cooking up a heartwarming Vietnamese-French diaspora musical

Aspiring performer Yvonne dreams aloud in candy-coloured reveries that carry the hopes of a marginalised singer in a rarely-seen Parisian community

Daruma review – disabled veteran is landed with a four-year-old in soft-hearted indie road movie

A surly war vet takes in the daughter he never knew he had in a well-intentioned but overly sentimental film

The Roses review – dieback blights Colman and Cumberbatch remake

Both British actors are let down by the overly glossy, romcom-y sheen of this update of Warren Adler’s 1980s novel about a spectacularly toxic marriage

‘High-adrenaline opulence’: why Bad Boys is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers sharing their comfort watches celebrates Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s ground-breaking action comedy

The Thursday Murder Club review – Richard Osman bestseller provides solid, star-stuffed entertainment

There’s much to enjoy in this adaptation of Osman’s ingenious book, with Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie and Pierce Brosnan as the senior-citizen X-Men

Honey Don’t! review – Ethan Coen returns with another amusing, throwaway queer comedy

Margaret Qualley is a horny private eye in an easy-going noir that might not amount to much but provides diversion on the way

The Rocky Horror Picture Show review – the campfest that became a cultural colossus

As the all-singing, all-conquering horror-schlocker celebrates its 50th birthday, the genuine one-off retains all its raucous, raunchy, riotous joy

This Is Spinal Tap review – a glorious heavy-rock nightmare that was ahead of its time

Rereleased ahead of its forthcoming sequel, the classic mockumentary about the mythic pomp of a musical colossus on the decline is still a joy

Splitsville review – open marriage comedy is a silly, scrappy and sex-filled good time

Dakota Johnson leads a raucous look at two couples exploring ethical non-monogamy in a messy yet entertaining ride