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Teddy review – wince-inducing French werewolf horror

Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma show promisingly grim tendencies in a supremely confident horror that lacks a bit of thematic bite

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World review – devastating exposé of showbiz abuse

Luchino Visconti emerges badly from this desperately sad documentary about the exploitation of his Death in Venice child star Björn Andrésen

The Offering review – a sizzling Hitchcockian love triangle

A psychologist is forced to confront the fallout of a past romance in a neo-noir from Ventura Durall lacking visual punch

Riders of Justice review – Mads Mikkelsen revenge thriller turns screwball

Anders Thomas Jensen’s film is far-fetched, tonally wayward and shouldn’t work at all, but somehow it all comes together

Bye Bye Morons review – frantically misjudged French farce doesn’t travel well

Albert Dupontel stars in his own hectic romp, which tries and fails to be funny about disability and dying

Luz: The Flower of Evil review – arty Colombian horror shot through a trippy filter

Colombian horror about a micro-cult is rather too fascinated by the barbarity of its leader, rather than the daughters he has hidden from the world

Reset review – beautiful footage of extreme-sports thrill-seekers

French director Thierry Donard, ‘the Fellini of adventure film-making’, shoots four sets of daredevils throwing themselves headlong into intense experience

Night of the Kings review – Ivory Coast prison drama escapes into magical realism

This imaginative and unique Ivorian tale blends modern-day thriller dynamics with older storytelling traditions

Here We Are review – superb performances and insight in Israeli autism drama

Drawn on the writer’s personal experience, Nir Bergman’s father-son runaway adventure delivers poignancy through myriad insights

I Never Cry review – endearingly spiky girl’s odyssey from Poland to Ireland, and back again

In a striking debut, Zofia Stafiej sets about repatriating her late father’s body from Dublin, and finding herself along the way

The Restless review – unflinching study of an anguished artist

Damien Bonnard is a bipolar painter whose life is unravelling in this earnest drama that avoids cliches and pulls no punches

Memoria review – Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tilda Swinton make a dream team

The Thai master’s English-language debut – about an expat attuned to strange frequencies in Colombia – more than matches his past mystic odysseys

Renée Dorléac, actor and mother of Catherine Deneuve, dies aged 109

Star who dubbed French versions of talkies starring Olivia de Havilland and Judy Garland quit acting during second world war

Petrov’s Flu review – feverish tale of a pandemic and societal breakdown

Kirill Serebrennikov’s prescient and audacious but oppressive drama is set in a post-Soviet Russia in the grip of a flu epidemic

Our Men review – Rachel Lang delivers an unadorned tour de force

Anxiety and instability stalks the private lives of French foreign legion soldiers in this restrained and hugely poignant drama

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  • SpaceX overtakes Amazon as world’s fifth biggest company
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  • UK defence spending plan ‘well short of what’s required’ and harder choices needed, says John Healey – as it happened
  • Cate Blanchett promises ‘creative rumpus’ in new role: Oxford professor
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  • Toy Story 5 review – Pixar franchise needs new batteries
  • UK social media ban could cut lifeline for disabled children, campaigners warn
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  • Russell Crowe says Gladiator II failed because ‘it didn’t have a moral core’
  • Thirst review – member-dismembering Icelandic gore fest rips it up in trashy 80s style
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  • The Death of Robin Hood review – Hugh Jackman darkens a heroic tale in grim drama
  • ‘He experienced a full life of trauma’: documentary explores troubled tale of Gregg Allman
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  • Girlfriends review – love and growing pains in queer coming-of-age tale that goes from Hong Kong to Taiwan
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  • Florida lawsuit accuses TikTok of violating state’s child social media ban
  • Impact of social media ban for under-16s in UK hinges on how firm it is
  • The Guardian view on regulating big tech: the UK’s new, tougher approach to child safety is overdue
  • Technology secretary says she wants regulator to design plans for online age verification by October – as it happened
  • ‘The genie is out of the bottle’: parents react to UK under-16s social media ban
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  • UK 16 and 17-year-olds: we would like to hear your views on the government’s social media ban for under-16s
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