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In-I in Motion review – Juliette Binoche pulls back the curtain on dance duet with Akram Khan

The actor makes her directing debut with a raw, fascinating film about her 2008 collaboration with the British dancer

Your mission, Tom Cruise, is to improve at interviews. And please keep sending the cakes

He risks his life for entertainment, but getting an anecdote out of him is a trickier matter. Happily, Cruise is no stranger to knuckling down and pulling off the impossible

Whisper of the Heart review – Studio Ghibli deep cut is pep talk on how to live the artistic life

Hayao Miyazaki-scripted 90s teen romance sees an aspiring writer drawn to a potential soulmate thanks to library books and a curmudgeonly cat

The Cycle of Love review – a 6,000-mile bike ride caps a real life Swedish-Indian romance

One Oscar-winning director, one horoscope-prompted meet-cute and a continent-crossing cyclist – is this the start of documentaries that make you happy-cry?

A Talent for Murder review – Helen Mirren is a viperous Patricia Highsmith in hit-and-miss thriller

A fictionalised version of the cantankerous crime author plots a murder with an ambitious editor in a story in need of a sharper edge

Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo review – Takashi Miike follows Ferrara and Herzog with a disappointment

There’s a surprisingly tame quality to the gorehound’s contribution to the rough and ready franchise and a general aimlessness that frustrates

James McNeill Whistler review – painter’s work shines through attention-grabbing life story

The latest Exhibition on Screen documentary does a good job balancing the famous scandals with the subtle brilliance of his art

The Debut review – Julianne Moore is a thrill in Jesse Eisenberg’s oddball comedy

Riotous lead performance holds together third movie from actor turned film-maker, about a housewife who joins a local musical

Venice best actress winner says she signed on at Danish job centre days before her victory

Mathilde Arcel, who won the Volpi Cup on Saturday for her role in Golden Lion winner Woman Unknown, said job offers have now begun to arrive

Legend of Destruction review – starry voices grace animated telling of the Jewish revolt against the Romans

Eight years in the making, the innovative film uses painted still images – it’s like being read a graphic novel by a cast including Oscar Isaac, Evangeline Lilly and Elliott Gould

Are you outraged by Sydney Sweeney – again? More fool you

Today it’s a silly sports betting ad, but I can’t see anything she’s done that’s worth this ire. She’s in her 20s: she does dumb things. Enjoy! says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Night of the Coyotes review – border-crossing role-play is tourist attraction in struggling Mexican town

Clara Trischler’s absorbing feature sees residents of the small town of El Alberto hired to play characters in a re-enactment of the migrant experience

Premature review – sunny charm provides screwball energy for surprise-pregnancy comedy

First-time director Kevin Walls creates a film sweet-natured enough to cancel out some comedy misfires as flatmates Eilidh and Cameron prepare for parenthood

Benedict Cumberbatch on his Earth-saving eco film: ‘We are in the last grab of the extraction era’

From Obama’s chef to a big cat obsessive, the actor has gathered experts from all over the world for a film about how to heal our besieged planet. He talks about naysayers, elephant tusks – and the wonders of venison

Elsinore review – Andrew Scott is astonishing as Ian Charleson in devastating Aids drama

Toronto film festival: the actor gives his greatest screen performance to date as the Chariots of Fire star who spends his final months playing Hamlet on stage

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