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My Best Friend’s Exorcism review – 80s-set superfun retro comedy horrorshow

The high-school and scary movies of the 1980s are wittily evoked in this tale of teenagers tested by demonic possession

Post your questions for Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear

What do you want to ask the comedy besties as they get ready to celebrate three decades since the release of The Muppet Christmas Carol?

Mrs Harris Goes to Paris review – Lesley Manville is terrific in Mary Poppins-ish fun

Manville is utterly convincing as a wide-eyed chirpy cleaner who comes into money and sets her heart on a Dior dress in this 1950s-set charmer

Blonde review – Ana de Armas gives her all as Monroe in otherwise incurious film

Glossy horror perpetuates the tradition of portraying the brilliant actor as an infantile, sacrificial sex-lamb on the altar of celebrity

After Yang review – what to do when your AI robot child goes wrong?

Kogonada’s enigmatic sci-fi drama channels Charlie Kaufman and Philip K Dick as Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner Smith try to fix the faulty AI bot they bought for their adopted daughter

Jackie Brown review – Tarantino’s most romantic film is a stone-cold classic

Pam Grier and Samuel L Jackson are explosively good in this stylish crime thriller, with superb supporting turns from Robert Forster, Robert De Niro and Bridget Fonda

Catherine Called Birdy review – Lena Dunham’s delightful medieval romp

The Girls creator handles an adaptation of Karen Cushman’s much-loved novel with wit and creativity

First German film adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front shows ‘shame’ of war

Edward Berger’s adaptation of 1928 classic depicts ‘guilt and pain’ felt by Germans over wars

‘I truly believe she was close’: star of new biopic sensed Marilyn Monroe on set

Director Andrew Dominik also says that scenes for the controversial Netflix release, filmed in the room where the iconic actor died were ‘like a seance’

The Drowning of Arthur Braxton review – YouTuber Luke Cutforth paddles in the shallow end

Young Arthur – bullied at school and struggling with his dad Johnny Vegas – seeks sanctuary at his local pool

Bones and All review – cannibal romance is a heartbreaking banquet of brilliance

Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell dazzle in Luca Guadagnino’s blood-soaked parable of poverty and rebellion

‘Societal collapse is in the air’: Timothée Chalamet on cannibal romance Bones and All

Actor says Bones and All is about ‘isolated young people without identity’ ahead of his bloody new film’s Venice premiere

Three Thousand Years of Longing review – heartfelt Aladdinesque adventure for grownups

Idris Elba is longing to tell his story and grant Tilda Swinton the statutory three wishes in George Miller’s heartfelt fantasy

The Gold Machine review – Iain Sinclair confronts imperial ancestors in Peru trek

In the film of Sinclair’s book, the writer ends up rerouting the story of his great-grandfather’s expedition to the Amazon to its own psychogeographic musings

Mr Malcolm’s List review – Regency romcom served with cake-icing of irony

A snooty eligible bachelor gets his comeuppance in an ‘alt-historical’ tale told with precisely the right amount of seriousness – and no more

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