Khamenei regime will not be able to keep control of Iran, says dissenting film-maker
Jafar Panahi, director of Palme d’Or winner It Was Just An Accident, says Iranian leaders want to destroy country
The crying game: what Hamnet’s grief-porn debate says about women, cinema – and enormous hawks
Hamnet and H Is for Hawk fuse themes of loss, birds and elemental female emotion. But whose fault is it if you remain dry-eyed?
The Rip review – Ben Affleck and Matt Damon tear through flashy Netflix bro thriller
The longtime friends and colleagues add weight to Joe Carnahan’s enjoyably boisterous Friday night crowdpleaser
Matthew McConaughey trademarks ‘All right, all right, all right’ catchphrase in bid to beat AI fakes
The Oscar winner intends to combat misuse of the famous line from Dazed and Confused by creating ‘a clear perimeter around ownership’
Melissa Leo: ‘Winning an Oscar was not good for me or my career’
The actor answers your questions on her preference for playing goodies or baddies, kissing Denzel Washington and sneaking a nap on set
I’m Ann Lee, and this is my testament about the mind-scramble of sharing your name with a movie character
From amused texts to awkward introductions, the run-up to the release of awards-tipped Shaker biopic The Testament of Ann Lee has been a strange experience
Clickbait review – gripping drama about the human cost of moderating the internet
A social media content moderator becomes obsessed with a violent video in this restrained, unsettling workplace thriller starring Lili Reinhart
‘A cowardly, deluded drunken waster’: readers on their favourite unlikable movie characters
After Guardian writers shared their choices, readers responded with picks from films including Withnail and I, Emily the Criminal and Chopper
Rental Family review – Brendan Fraser seeks meaning in pointless Japanese role-play drama
Fraser plays a hapless Tokyo-based actor working for a firm that offers bespoke therapeutic role-play services in director Hikari’s silly and saccharine film
From Ralph Fiennes to Jeffrey Wright: the most overlooked performances this awards season
Jessie Buckley and Timothée Chalamet might be winning all of the awards but as Oscar voting begins, these actors also deserve inclusion
Netflix ‘plans to switch to all-cash offer to seal $83bn Warner Bros deal’
Aim is to speed up acquisition of WBD studio and streaming businesses and hold off rival Paramount bid
Bulk review – Ben Wheatley’s quirky sci-fi brings small-budget charm to big questions
Wheatley’s engaging tale sends Sam Riley’s tough-guy reporter to the home of a reclusive oligarch who has invented a ‘Brain Collider’
A Gangster’s Life review – funny in parts, but not always deliberately
Despite some interesting visuals, not even Tony Cook and Jonny Weldon can lift this poorly produced tale of a pair of dodgy lads hiding in Greece from a gangster
‘I fell in love with him on the spot’: Alan Rickman remembered, 10 years after his death
On the anniversary of his death aged 69, stars from Sigourney Weaver to Sharleen Spiteri, Tom Felton to Harriet Walter, remember the wit, charm and endless generosity of one of Britain’s best-loved actors
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple review – Ralph Fiennes is phenomenal in best chapter yet of zombie horror
A murderous Clockwork-Orangey gang take on the zombies in this gruesome and energised fourquel. It’s the finest of the 28 franchise by a blood-curdling mile