Charlie the Wonderdog review – pooch v puss caper beams Owen Wilson up from the wilderness
Wilson lends his drawl to a dog who gains superpowers after being abducted by aliens in this frenetic animation
Jack Ryan: Ghost War review – Amazon’s Tom Clancy series spawns middling movie
John Krasinski continues his unconvincing run as the CIA analyst in a mostly unexciting and rather low-rent feature-length adventure
Eek-cute: the rebirth of the frothy romcom sociopath
The online era is pushing screen romantics to alarming extremes. Whether posing as a stranger’s fiancee or framing someone as an obsessive stalker, happy endings look harder than ever to find
Fight Like a Girl review – fiercely authentic setting lifts powerful female boxer drama
Ama Qamata plays a teenage survivor of sexual violence in the DRC with compelling power, and searingly drawn footage of street life in Goma gives authentic edge
Billy Joel condemns upcoming biopic about his early life as ‘legally and professionally misguided’
Singer-songwriter has ‘not authorised or supported’ Billy & Me, which will be based on the story of his first manager Irwin Mazur
Sheep in the Box review – a bland, baffling tale of AI children from Hirokazu Kore-eda
There’s nothing wrong with film-makers leaving their comfort zone but the Japanese director’s latest effort just doesn’t work
‘Obvious markers of AI’: doubts raised over winner of short story prize
Granta publisher says ‘perhaps we never will know’ true authorship of work that won Commonwealth prize
Bitter Christmas review – grief, loss and artistic betrayal in Almodóvar’s film within a film
Cannes film festival: Spaniard’s latest life-v-art auto-metafiction feels slightly muddled as he directs a director directing a director
Nicolas Winding Refn breaks down at Cannes recalling near-death due to ‘leaking heart’
The director of Drive, unveiling new thriller My Private Hell, told journalists he ‘died for 25 minutes’ in 2023
Minotaur review – Andrei Zvyagintsev’s scorching noir intrigue amid the Ukraine war
Cannes film festival: The great Russian director’s first film for almost a decade is tremendous drama following the ill-deeds of a mini-oligarch who comes up with a toxic new way to feed Russia’s war machine
Her Private Hell review – Nicolas Winding Refn’s shapeshifting fantasia is a dreamy swirl of strangeness
Cannes film festival: Refn’s film eludes definition as it moves through time and space, from doomy reality to strange dream worlds populated by quasi-Lynchian characters
Reality Bites is a gen X classic where the only real enemies are capitalism and inauthenticity
Ben Stiller’s 90s romcom starring a smouldering Ethan Hawke and a magnetic Winona Ryder is replete with quotable one-liners and a killer soundtrack
Clint Eastwood cannon from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly traced to Spanish museum
Enthusiasts track down weapon used to fell fleeing Eli Wallach amid preparations for 60th anniversary of film’s release
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu review – helmeted hero tangles with hateful Hutts in decent feature outing
The badass bounty hunter and his little green friend take on the Empire and Jabba the Hutt’s family in this solid enough addition to the ever-expanding universe
I Love Boosters review – Boots Riley’s absurdist shoplifting comedy is a mixed bag
The Sorry to Bother You director’s brash and outrageously funny new film, led by Keke Palmer, can be a little too scattershot to make an impact