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The Substance review – Demi Moore is game for a laugh in grisly body horror caper

Moore plays a fading Hollywood star whose career is set to be axed by misogynists when she’s offered a secret new medical procedure

The Balconettes review – neighbours finding trouble in invitation to hot guy’s flat

Noémie Merlant’s first film as a director is relentlessly silly, self-indulgent and unsuited to its themes of misogyny and sexual violence

The inside scoop: a giant serving of the UK’s best summer arts and entertainment

From female art trailblazers to playful performance fests, a ridiculous funk wannabe to a clubby Argentinian dance spectacular, our critics pick the arts events that will light up your summer

Thelma the Unicorn review – sunny Netflix cartoon offers simple pleasures

Directors Jared Hess and Lynn Wang craft a solid piece of family fun with the tale of a pony aiming for success in disguise

If review – John Krasinski’s so-so, sentimental family fantasy

Ryan Reynolds leads an all-star cast in a sweet, if a little messy, tale of imaginary friends reconnecting with the grown-ups who once bid them goodbye

Withnail and I review – downtrodden duo return to demand some more booze

A strong cast and a magical set make this more or less word-for-word stage transfer of the cult hit an entertaining tribute piece

Two Tickets to Greece review – insufferable women-on-holiday comedy is no Shirley Valentine

Even Kristin Scott Thomas can’t save this painful French comedy about two older women heading for the Greek islands for wacky fun

The Second Act review – Quentin Dupieux’s likable meta comedy of actors’ private lives

With help from an A-list cast, Dupieux brings his customary mischief to an amiable tale of imposture and role play

‘It’s great!’ Rafe Spall on having a baby with his co-star in Trying, the infertility sitcom

In the hit TV series, Spall and Esther Smith play a couple who have endured the pain of infertility. And now it turns out they’re having a real-life baby together. The proud dad-to-be reveals all

A Family Affair review – wellness-retreat comedy goes lowest common denominator

Actors as gifted as Jane Asher and Joe Wilkinson can’t do much with jokes about a failing guest house 40 years past their use-by date

The Coffee Table review – horror comedy takes its cue from gaudy furniture item

Caye Casas’s second feature is audacious and sharp, but the shifts between acidic comedy of manners and humour-free horror are grating

Mother of the Bride review – Brooke Shields leads middling Netflix mush

More background fluff from the streamer, this time from Mean Girls director Mark Waters with a splashy Thailand location

Diva Cups: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

The pop DJ duo are old enough to have Omegle trauma but young enough to have brain rot. It’s a winning combination

Dawn of the Big Yin: rediscovered film shows Billy Connolly on the road to comedy glory

The 1975 tour documentary Big Banana Feet captures a comic growing into his extraordinary talents – and adjusting to unprecedented fame

Billy Connolly: Big Banana Feet review – proto-punk star comic at his 70s peak

Restored 1976 doc of Connolly’s tour of Ireland shows that, despite his bombastic stage presence, he is impeccably polite. But his naughtier material hasn’t aged well

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