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Leap Year is patently ridiculous and widely panned. It’s also the perfect romcom

Starring Amy Adams and Matthew Goode as enemies-to-lovers, this very American portrait of Ireland happens to be charming

I’ll also be back as Conan: Arnold Schwarzenegger to make third Barbarian film 44 years after original

The 78-year-old has announced a return to the action hero role that made his name in 1982, promising ‘all kinds of madness’

Project Hail Mary review – Ryan Gosling’s charm carries unserious last-ditch space mission

Tale of a brilliant molecular biologist cast into outer space with only a helpful alien for company is a bit silly, but Gosling’s charisma keeps it watchable

Sex with Scorsese, beef with Sondheim … and inventing the moonwalk? The wildest moments in Liza Minnelli’s memoir

From Peter Sellers dressing like a Nazi, to having to manage her mother Judy Garland’s addiction, jaws will drop at Minnelli’s anecdotes

‘Lack of class’: Quentin Tarantino hits back at Rosanna Arquette over Pulp Fiction N-word criticism

Director rounds on actor, who acted in the cult film, saying he feels disrespected, and claiming cynical reasons behind her recent comments

Turner & Constable review – excellent survey of two great rivals in English painting

Documentary accompanying Tate Britain’s exhibition of the two competing painters comes with approachable expertise and beautiful photography

Blueberry Dreams review – a gentle, humorous portrait of a Georgian family who start a fruit farm

War is always in the background, but the focus is on a kindly father, his long-suffering wife and young sons struggling to make a profit from working the land

Why One Battle After Another should win the best picture Oscar

Paul Thomas Anderson’s capering clash between a demented repressive regime and ragtag freedom fighters is both cartoonish and deadly serious – and perfectly tuned to its times

Learning You review – faith-stuffed autism road trip drama sets off to find father-son connection

This sappy and ill-conceived tale about an architect, his autistic son and a lifesize toy bear suffers from sanctimonious religious messaging and dreadful dialogue

Gus Van Sant: ‘My assistant wanted to erect a statue of Luigi Mangione. My generation thought: this is murder’

The Milk and Good Will Hunting director’s new film is about ‘a little guy’ taking violent revenge against the system. He talks about the parallels between Dead Man’s Wire and the homicide case currently dividing Gen Z and boomers

Effi o Blaenau review – Greek myth retelling Iphigenia in Splott becomes blistering Welsh-language film

Leisa Gwenllian is a force of nature as working-class heroine Effi in this big screen version of Gary Owen’s one-woman play

Et tutu, Timothée? Backlash mounts over Chalamet snipes at opera and ballet

Jamie Lee Curtis is among a number of prominent figures to take exception to the Oscar nominee for disparaging artforms ‘no one cares about any more’

Rosanna Arquette says Quentin Tarantino’s use of N-word in Pulp Fiction is ‘racist and creepy’

Arquette says 1994 film is ‘great on many levels’ but she ‘cannot stand that [the director] has been given a hall pass’

Bad Voodoo review – escaped-convict horror worthy of a theme park ghost train

A fairly original and twisting plot is skewered by cliched dialogue and unforunate cinematography

Pixar chief says LGBTQ+ plot elements cut from Elio as company is ‘not making therapy’

Pete Docter says Pixar will concentrate on more commercially appealing films after staff dissent over deleted scenes that implied lead character was gay

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