Ghost Town review – the phantoms and lost souls haunting a Japanese city after the 2011 earthquake

Katharine Round’s documentary puts cameras in taxis where drivers and fares reflect on the disaster’s impact and talk of crowds of spectres and disappearing passengers

Carrie at 50: Brian De Palma’s fiery masterpiece still has the power

The Oscar-nominated 1976 adaptation of Stephen King’s high school horror remains heartbreaking and horrifying in equal measure

Manipulation review – preposterous Da Vinci Code-esque thriller like being trapped in a Ferrero Rocher ad

Conspiracies and espionage abound as a secret society’s young initiate is sent to infiltrate the Catholic church for inexplicable reasons. Who knows what’s going on?

New Group review – schoolkids build human pyramids in bizarre Japanese horror-satire on conformity

Two outsider students at a super-strict high school find they are definitely not with the programme in Yûta Shimotsu’s body-bending sci-fi scarer

Dustin Hoffman says filming The Graduate was ‘a terrible experience’ due to Mike Nichols’ ‘sadism’

In his new memoir, the actor reveals he was slapped 27 times until he was dizzy for a scene director Nichols ‘didn’t even use’

‘Screams on the level of a Taylor Swift concert’: horny romp Wicker gets the 4DX treatment

Olivia Colman’s steamy romance, where she plays a woman in love with a wicker man, becomes an unlikely pick for the theme park-like cinema experience

One in a Million review – deeply moving film about displacement, freedom and the upheaval of starting again

Following a Syrian mother and daughter over a decade, Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes capture a family transformed

‘Sad lost souls’: Taika Waititi lambasts critics after Klara and the Sun box-office disaster

The Jojo Rabbit director blamed the dismal numbers for his film of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel on ‘obsolete’ reviewers’ notices, adding that he works ‘for the people’ – whose Rotten Tomatoes ratings are much higher

‘It still preys on my mind’: readers on their scariest non-horror movies

After Guardian writers picked their choices for Halloween, readers have responded with films that send chills down their spines – from Never Let Me Go to The Truman Show

Blockhead review – struggling novelist embraces his inner monster in comic thriller of literary machismo

Writer-director Matt Harlock looks into ego and insecurity in a smart film about a BritLit bad boy who goes down a grisly road

‘Funny and self-aware’: why (500) Days of Summer is my feelgood movie

The latest in our ongoing series of writers detailing their most rewatched comfort films carries special romantic meaning

Dead Howling review – werewolf hunts zombies in tough-love apocalypse horror

Every bog-standard cliche is employed – and fails – in this moribund Aussie thiller, which entirely lacks both bite and bark

‘We both know how we feel about death and dying’: Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney on their brutally honest Parkinson’s drama

Written by Vicar of Dibley co-creator Paul Mayhew-Archer, who has the disease, Onwards and Sideways sees the actors play a couple who bond over their diagnoses – a devastating subject but laced with humour too, they say

I Died review – moving portrait of Tzotzil women confronting patriarchal violence in the Mexican highlands

Ana Ts’uyeb’s poetic film celebrates the resilience of Indigenous women while exploring the possibility of a different future

Alex Garland’s Elden Ring adaptation is on course to be Hollywood’s goriest ever fantasy movie

The expansive project has hype and money behind it – but how do you avoid it falling into the disappointment trap so many films end up stumbling into?