Oscar race enters final stretch as Sinners gains ground with Actor awards win
With voting now closed, the months-long campaign for Oscar glory is over – but industry insiders are still dissecting every award-season clue in a tight best picture race
‘Did I just hear what I thought I heard?’: Sinners’ Delroy Lindo on Bafta N-word controversy
The actor says he had only ‘a nanosecond’ to process the racial slur shouted during the Baftas as the BBC described the errors that led to its broadcast
‘Only Nazis ban books’: on the frontlines with students fighting Trump over higher education
Documentary First They Came for My College goes inside the fight for academic freedom at Florida’s New College
I Swear to Materialists: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
The brilliant film about Tourette syndrome that got lost in the recent Baftas fallout, and Dakota Johnson gets caught up in a love triangle between Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal
War Machine review – Netflix bravely asks: what if Predator but Transformers?
Reacher’s Alan Ritchson takes on alien robots in an action thriller that benefits from some better-than-usual streaming special effects
Why Hamnet should win the best picture Oscar
By forefronting Jessie Buckley’s Agnes at the expense of her megastar husband, this female-directed feminist fest gives voice to the anguished howls of disenfranchised women everywhere
Hard Boiled review – John Woo’s outrageously explosive 1992 cop thriller is pure action mayhem
Chow Yun-fat and Tony Leung face off in a wildly inventive film whose hospital shootout remains one of cinema’s most irresistible set pieces
‘Our bond is private. Some things have to stay between us’: Paolo Sorrentino and Toni Servillo on smoking, cinema and secrets
A drama about a president at the end of his career, La Grazia is the director’s finest film since The Great Beauty. As he reunites with his longtime collaborator, the pair discuss ageing, loyalty and the mysterious energy that has bound them for more than two decades
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man review – Tommy Shelby returns for muddy, bloody big-screen showdown
Cillian Murphy reprises his haunted gang boss in Steven Knight’s muscular film spin-off – as a wartime clash with Nazis and family betrayal pulls him back to Birmingham
The ‘Jim Carrey is a clone’ theory is absurd. Of course people believe it
Conspiracy claims have erupted over the star’s appearance. These days, I can’t blame people for endless skepticism
Chic couture, bio-terror and a whole load of Mike Leigh: Lesley Manville’s finest films – ranked!
With her 70th birthday around the corner, we assess the greatest screen outings of everybody’s favourite underrated doyenne of British cinema
Soul to Soul review – joyous 1971 concert film captures Black American stars’ emotional return to Ghana
Restored documentary records a historic independence day show in Accra, with electrifying performances from Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett and more
Mother’s Pride review – flat-cap populism and weak beer in Martin Clunes post-Brexit pub comedy
The team behind Fisherman’s Friends swap sea shanties for real ale, but this tale of rival West Country boozers serves up clunky exposition and sentiment on tap
‘Fame is the worst thing for us as human beings’: Naomi Scott on scream queens, Disney princesses and finding her own voice
After major roles in horror hit Smile 2 and the live-action Aladdin, the actor is returning to her first love: music. She talks faith, fame and why singing is more freeing than cinema
Why Bugonia should win the best picture Oscar
Contains spoilers: Emma Stone’s hard-faced corporate CEO has a lot of explaining to do when she is kidnapped by Jesse Plemons’s conspiracy kook. But in this film, asking whether someone is an alien seems an ordinary inquiry