Mother Mary review – Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel are lost in ludicrous pop star drama
Music from Charli xcx can’t save David Lowery’s dour chamber piece, despite some flashes of dazzling style
‘Cheers, Timmy!’ Royal Ballet and Opera head thanks Chalamet for ‘fantastic’ boost to sales
Actor Timothée Chalamet was credited by RBO’s chief exec with inadvertently boosting ticket sales through his high-profile critique of the art forms
Miracle Mile: boy meets girl, romcom meets nuclear war
This 80s thriller straddles both a charming love affair and the threat of impending apocalypse. Somehow, it all works
Endless Cookie review – Cheech and Chong meet Tristram Shandy in trippy tales of First Nations life
An animator records the shaggy dog stories of his Indigenous brother in a loopy, hallucinatory animation
Is the new Super Mario Galaxy movie really that bad?
A shallow plot and advert-adjacent cameos justify the critics’ condemnation of Nintendo’s latest film. But there’s sincere affection for the universe here, too
‘Such a water-cooler show!’ Jane Krakowski on Ally McBeal – and life as the world’s biggest scene-stealer
The 1990s series set her career alight; then came 30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and countless theatre triumphs. She discusses Tina Fey, Stephen Sondheim and why it would take a broken leg to keep her off stage
Kinaesthesia review – treasure trove of early cinema visions and the dream life they contain
Gerald Fox’s documentary on early film-makers’ fascination with dreams and human consciousness is a fascinating, if rather scholarly endeavour
Searching for Satyrus review – on the hunt for an elusive butterfly and the lepidopterist who named them
Rena Effendi attempts to find the species named after her wayward, womanising father – and a connection to the man she never knew – in this moving documentary
Mark Ruffalo and Emma Thompson among 1,000+ signatories on open letter opposing Paramount’s Warner buyout
Merger will ‘prioritise the interests of a small group of powerful stakeholders over the broader public good’, letter states
Luca Guadagnino defends Timothée Chalamet over opera and ballet remarks: ‘How can one comment become a planetary polemic?’
The director, who cast Chalamet in 2017’s Call Me By Your Name, spoke out in the actor’s defence ahead of the premiere of his staging of opera The Death of Klinghoffer
Bollywood classics, rave bangers and Michael Stipe duets: 10 of Asha Bhosle’s greatest recordings
After her death aged 92, we look back on the vast and varied catalogue of one of India’s greatest vocalists, who brought actorly skill to her Bollywood playback performances
Sunshine Women’s Choir review – weepie prison musical is huge Taiwan hit but drowns in own gloop
This schmaltzy film about a choir of inmates might make you cry – but in exasperation, frustration and disbelief rather than heartfelt emotion
Post your questions for Sam Neill
From dinosaur-hunting in Jurassic Park to high-seas terror in Dead Calm, Sam Neill looks back on a remarkable career – and is ready for your questions
Ken Loach revisits I, Daniel Blake: ‘We were asking if food banks are tolerable. Now they’re an institution’
The scene at the food bank, recalls the director, where Katie is so hungry, she pours baked beans into her hand from a tin and eats them cold, came from a real story
I have just one secret from my husband. If he reads this, even that will be gone
I know that hidden depths are sexy and intriguing – but after 30 years together, we effectively share a single brain, writes Emma Beddington