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Thelma & Louise review – musical hoedown is a bland and baffling wrong turn

Despite a book by the original screenwriter, this stage adaptation doesn’t have the depth – or the songs – worthy of the era-defining feminist parable. And where’s the car?

Why stop at Wuthering Heights: House of the Damned? Bring on Mrs Dalloway’s Rampage!

It isn’t just Winnie the Pooh – now the star of Blood & Honey II. Budget shockers are treating any story with expired copyright as ripe for murderous exploitation

De Gaulle: Liberté review – biopic of conquering French war hero reaches his imperial era

A shrewd performance by Simon Abkarian leads this blockbuster account of the wartime leader’s career as he ascends to political dominance

‘We live with a big burden’: survivor of abusive Spotlight priest hopes clergyman’s death brings closure

Keith Townsend says he hopes death of Ronald Paquin in prison helps victims and families to ‘keep pressing forward’

Jonathan Majors’s anti-Islam action thriller is laughably terrible far-right propaganda

The disgraced former Marvel villain has found work with Ben Shapiro for hateful campus-set thriller Run Hide Fight: Infidels, which makes its politics clear from the outset

Bad Apples review – Saoirse Ronan’s suffering teacher best thing about school horror-satire

Ronan plays a teacher who finds a way to deal with a disruptive pupil in Jonatan Etzler’s implausible satire, but it’s not shocking or funny enough

‘When you tell people the story, it’s almost too good to be true’: the incredible journey behind The Cycle of Love

Documentary director Orlando von Einsiedel on how the real life tale of a man who cycles 6,000 miles from India to Sweden to find his true love will warm your heart

The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream review – political scandal, 70s style

Shane O’Sullivan’s documentary weaves archive clips and snippets from films old and new to draw out the highlights of the crisis that rocked the US

‘I thank God for killing me and bringing me back’: Nicolas Winding Refn on the heart surgery that inspired his new sci-fi horror

Notorious for ultra-violent movies like Drive and The Neon Demon, the Dane had lost the will to direct until ‘the Tom Cruise of surgeons’ saved his life – and triggered an astonishing creative rebirth

Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify

Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists

The Liberation review – Carrie Coon joins all-female cult in unsettling drama

Director Guy Nattiv draws on personal experience for an 80s-set tale of a woman abandoning her family for a creepy commune

Girls creator Lena Dunham welcomes baby girl delivered via surrogate

Writer and actor, 40, had long struggled with endometriosis before undergoing total hysterectomy at age 31

Resident Evil review – Zach Cregger’s rebooted action horror is a wild rollercoaster ride

The Weapons director delivers a seat-edge thriller with a standout lead performance from Austin Abrams as an everyman navigating chaos

Smile at Last review – photo-love-story style parable of a teen abandoned at a tough Soviet youth facility

With handheld camerawork, this unsentimental rite of passage film follows Mari, who tries to escape from a residential home in Estonia

Battle of Chile director Patricio Guzmán dies aged 85

Passionate documentary maker won international acclaim for unsparing but poetic films exploring the impact of the Pinochet regime in Chile

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