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Kristen Stewart’s 20 best performances – ranked!

From Spencer to Still Alice, and now David Cronenberg’s bonkers new horror sci-fi Crimes of the Future, we rate the Twilight star’s finest work

The Hating Game review – sugary Manhattan romcom that goes down easily

Peter Hutchings’ feature about mismatched colleagues who fall for each other has little going for it apart from the leads’ palpable chemistry

Cate Blanchett and Harry Styles to head to Venice for 2022 edition of film festival

Competition slots for jailed Iranian director Jafar Panahi, Martin McDonagh and Darren Aronofsky, while actors on show range from past winner Blanchett to Bill Nighy and Harry Styles

The Emigrants review – gritty old-worlders make rewarding trek to American frontier

Powerfully told story of 19th-century Swedish migrants takes its time, but delivers a fresh, honest take on their arduous path

David Warner: a fiercely charismatic actor who raised the IQ of his movies

From Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment to one of movie history’s most shocking death scenes, Warner’s classical training, style and fine voice gave character to any role

The Deer King review – Studio Ghibli graduates take on dystopian deer tamer saga

Two grandees of Japanese animation adapt a Nahoko Uehashi fantasy novel that covers too much ground to take flight

Bob Rafelson: subtle and complex director was presiding genius of the Hollywood new wave

Rafelson was a director who got era-defining performances out of Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces and The King of Marvin Gardens, as well as co-creating the Monkees

Where the Crawdads Sing review – Daisy Edgar-Jones wasted in terrible southern Gothic schmaltz

Normal People star deserved a better Hollywood debut than this solemnly ridiculous film and its outrageously evasive cheat ending

Persuasion review – Dakota Johnson looks the part as Jane Austen gets Fleabagged

Classic story of a young woman talked out of marrying her true love is turned into a smirking, heavy-handed romcom

Dr Who and the Daleks/ Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 AD review – retro Time Lord thrills

Filmed in glorious Technicolor, these imaginative 1960s instalments focused on the much-loved baddies, with Peter Cushing’s Doctor in Edwardian-inventor mode

Corrective Measures review – Bruce Willis flexes his mind control in superpowered prison drama

Splicing X-Men and Suicide Squad shouldn’t really work, but director Sean Patrick O’Reilly adds a subtle layer of social commentary to the comic-book schlock in a distinctive debut

The Railway Children review – kids’ adventure has lost none of its limpid charm

Rereleased as a curtain-raiser for a sequel, Jenny Agutter, Bernard Cribbins and co continue to exert their grip over the national imagination

The Black Phone review – Ethan Hawke is eerily good in scary-clown kidnap horror

Impressive performances help an uneven plot in this 70s-set kidnap horror based on a story by Stephen King’s son Joe Hill

Is The Lord of the Rings now a never-ending franchise like Marvel and Star Wars?

With an anime movie and an Amazon series imminent, is Middle-earth about to be transformed into its own film and TV universe?

Spiderhead review – Netflix’s prison-experiment fable is going nowhere

Tale of lab-rat detainees testing psychoactive drugs, presided over by a creepy Chris Hemsworth, rather loses its way

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