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To infinity and beyond! Visitors can dive into Pixar worlds in immersive London show

Shrink to toy-size or dive into an ocean in exhibition where studio brings Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Up to life

Plantation weddings and pre-civil war fashion: the film that critiques the historical fantasy of Natchez

A documentary about Mississippi examines competing forces: the nostalgic celebration of the old south and the refusal to sanitize the brutal history of enslavement

‘Full of emotional wisdom’: Guardian writers on the best movie romances you might not have seen

For Valentine’s Day, writers picked their favourite lesser-known film love stories – from a dom-sub chamberpiece to a magical teen comedy

My cultural awakening: Thirteen influenced my hedonistic youth, until a psychotic episode ended it

My teenage self was shy and miserable, before a coming-of-age film unleashed an adolescence of drink, sex and drugs. It was a years-long party that eventually came crashing down

From Wuthering Heights to Mario Tennis Fever: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Emerald Fennell’s film brings the raunch to Brontë’s romance, while Nintendo’s beloved plumber stars in a colourful, family-friendly sports game

No Good Men review – intelligent and urgent Afghan romance

Shahrbanoo Sadat is a charming presence in front of the camera and a skilled film-maker behind in this shrewd and contemporary tale

Sunny Dancer review – ‘chemo camp’ gives teen drama a fresh spin

Bella Ramsey leads this likable coming-of-age story where the shared experience of adolescent cancer gives new warmth to a familiar genre

A Prayer for the Dying review – pestilent western feels like a short stretched too long

Johnny Flynn and John C Reilly offer casting heft, but this moody, technically sound tale of an unfolding epidemic in 1870s Wisconsin lacks emotional substance

‘It’s not a documentary’: costume designers on ditching accuracy for spectacle

Wuthering Heights is the latest film to turn heads over anachronistic costumes, but it’s not by any means the first

Everybody Digs Bill Evans review – absorbing delve into the tumultuous world of the great jazz man

Grant Gee’s film thoroughly inhabits the creative and personal torment experienced by the American pianist – with a terrific supporting Bill Pullman turn

Arundhati Roy is right, not Wim Wenders – here are eight films that have changed politics

From ‘honour’ killings to nuclear war, some screen works have led directly legislative action – despite what jury head Wenders suggested at the Berlin film festival

‘I loved it!’: Brontë museum staff praise racy Wuthering Heights film

Staff at Brontë Parsonage Museum in Howarth embrace Emerald Fennell’s sex-laced take, while Emily Brontë’s most recent biographer calls BDSM version ‘a lot of fun’

Arundhati Roy quits Berlin film festival over ‘stay out of politics’ comment

Author says she is ‘disgusted’ by claim from jury president Wim Wenders that film-makers should remain apolitical

John Polson and David Michôd on Tropfest’s return: the film festival that ‘can change your career overnight’

Before losing its way, the world’s largest short film festival had an A-list guestlist and kickstarted the careers of Justin Kurzel and Nash and Joel Edgerton. What will it look like in 2026?

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘jazz hands’ at Oscar lunch a recreation of Shining photo, director says

The picture, taken with Paul Thomas Anderson at this year’s Oscar nominee lunch, recalls the eerie image that closes Kubrick’s 1980 horror classic

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