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Werewolf review – choppy, shlocky Polish drama

Pairing concentration camp history and horror stylings leads to a struggle with tone Adrian Panek’s film can’t surmount

Werewolf review – kids v crazed canines horror

A group of teenagers liberated from a Nazi concentration camp face a terrible new threat in this disturbing, challenging drama

Normal review – lawyers in bikinis to dogma in the doll’s house

Adele Tulli’s elegantly deadpan documentary challenges the sexual stereotypes that prevail across the generations

Streaming: after the dazzling Shadow, catch up on the best of Zhang Yimou

As the Chinese auteur’s new blockbuster goes online, it’s time to catch up on his greatest hits…

Phoenix review – Norwegian family drama doesn’t fly

Hints of horror undermine rather than underline themes in Camilla Strøm Henriksen’s first film

La Flor review – 13 thrilling hours of lovers, spies and scorpions

Six stories featuring the same four actors unfold in inventive and exasperating style in an arthouse ultramarathon

The Shock of the Future review – when synths ruled the world

A young woman in late-70s Paris explores the thrilling possibilities of electronic music in a drama with a timely feminist slant

Phoenix review – horror comes home in chilly Scandi drama

Daily dread infuses the raw, claustrophobic story of a teenage carer looking after her troubled mother and little brother

The Shiny Shrimps review – a belly flop of a comedy

A homophobic swimming coach has to mend his ways

Sprinter review – speedy sporting drama runs out of puff

A Jamaican athlete’s career is jeopardised by problems off the track in this heartwarming tale of ambition and family ties

Moffie review – soldiers on the frontline of homophobia

Hidden passions add to the brutish hell of apartheid-era South African conscripts in Oliver Hermanus’s skilfully tense drama

The Shiny Shrimps review – water polo comedy stuck at the shallow end

A homophobic swimming champ is tasked with coaching a gay men’s team in this well-meaning but uninspiring tale

Rojo review – shame and fury in the land of the disappeared

Set before the coup that installed a military junta in Argentina, Benjamín Naishtat’s satire is a disturbing parable of iniquity

About Endlessness review – a divine comedy with moments of devilish wit

Lost souls and lonely hearts populate Roy Andersson’s deliciously odd follow-up to A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

The Painted Bird review – savage, searing three-hour tour of hell

Stellan Skarsgård, Harvey Keitel and Udo Kier star in this phantasmagorical horror about eastern Europe that saw half the Venice audience walk out. I couldn’t look away

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  • The Guardian view on John Williams and Steven Spielberg: a partnership that changed cinema
  • The Rev Michael Humphreys obituary
  • 45 Years review – Gabriel Byrne and Geraldine James mark an anniversary for the ages
  • How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
  • The best 4K wireless TV streamers for more choice – with no aerial required
  • The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech
  • Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after it announces OpenAI partnership
  • Read a book? Join a club? Stare at a wall? Social media alternatives for under-16s
  • ‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings
  • Bologna’s niche festival of forgotten films captures the streaming generation
  • Anya Taylor-Joy will make a brilliant elf assassin in Hunt for Gollum. But it’s a movie we don’t need
  • Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new film shines a light on the human cost of unregulated social media
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash to Project Hail Mary – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • You can handle the truth! Why cinema suddenly loves conspiracy theories
  • On the trail of the dotcom queen: how Julie Meyer left a pattern of unpaid bills, missing funds and broken dreams in her wake
  • Telegram questioned by Ofcom after arsonist who targeted Starmer-linked properties recruited on app
  • In the Hand of Dante review – Gerard Butler is jaw-dropping in bizarre Renaissance mafia reverie
  • The Crunch: Climate refugees, visualising Elon Musk’s wealth, and the many ways to analyse the World Cup
  • California ‘billionaire tax’ makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls
  • Voicemails for Isabelle review – Netflix romcom picks creepy over cute
  • The Guardian view on OnlyFans: revelations of abusive middlemen merit MPs’ attention
  • Attorney general tells department to stop using X amid UK disinformation concerns
  • ‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton
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  • Aardman exhibition marks animation studio’s half a century in Bristol
  • Post your questions for Minions supremo Pierre Coffin
  • We must be alive to the dangers of a UK social media ban – and the way to really help young people
  • Girls Like Girls review – Sapphic teen romance is a precious and predictable yawn-a-thon
  • Farage trying to block ‘Britcoin’ plans that could be costly for billionaire donor
  • The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 11 light therapy devices that are worth the hype

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