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Passing review – Rebecca Hall’s stylish and subtle study of racial identity

Hall’s directing debut stars Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga as friends who are both ‘passing’ for what they are not in an adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel

Dune review – Denis Villeneuve’s awe-inspiring epic is a moment of triumph

Villeneuve’s take on the sci-fi classic starring Timothée Chalamet, Oscar Isaac and Zendaya has been given room to breathe, creating a colossal spectacle

Brief Encounter review – sparkling revival of Emma Rice’s forbidden romance

This polished production brings Rice’s innovative adaptation of the classic film to life, with an electric central partnership and personality to spare

After We Fell review – Harry Styles-inspired romance is stupendously wooden

Fans of the YA After series should find something amid the tangled mess of plot, daytime-soap acting and inanimate passion – everyone else should look away

The Outsiders review – Coppola’s Brat Pack melodrama carries you away

Patrick Swayze and Rob Lowe star in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 movie that comes crashing back on screen

The Last Duel review – storytelling with gusto in Ridley Scott’s medieval epic

Jodie Comer comes up against odious men played by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Adam Driver in a reverse rape-revenge parable set in 14th-century France

Timothée Chalamet’s Wonka: is it so wrong to find him scrumdiddlyumptious?

The actor’s in-costume Instagram post has caused social media users to accuse the film-makers of “making Willy Wonka sexy” – but Wonka-lust is hardly new

Dune review – David Lynch’s intergalactic epic shoots for the moon

There are moments of dreamlike brilliance in this extravagant fable of imperialism – provided you can stay awake to see them

The Green Knight review – Dev Patel rides high on sublimely beautiful quest

Director David Lowery conjures up visual wonders and metaphysical mysteries from the anonymously authored 14th-century chivalric poem

The Maltese Falcon review – dreamlike tension and the greatest MacGuffin of all time

A dark, steely performance from Humphrey Bogart is at the cynical heart of John Huston’s adaptation of the classic detective novel

The Servant review – Losey and Pinter’s nightmarish version of Jeeves and Wooster

The subversive 1963 classic crackles with undertones of class, sexuality and communism, with Dirk Bogarde at his finest as the sociopathic manservant

Happening review – sex and abortion on the new frontline in 60s France

Adapted from Annie Ernaux’s novel, this drama about a student agonising over an illegal termination plays out as a tense, gripping thriller

The Lost Daughter review – Olivia Colman lights up Elena Ferrante psychodrama

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s accomplished directing debut makes humid, sensual cinema of Elena Ferrante’s novel

Dune review – blockbuster cinema at its dizzying, dazzling best

Denis Villeneuve’s slow-burn space opera fuses the arthouse and the multiplex to create an epic of otherworldly brilliance

Kristen Stewart on Princess Diana: ‘The sad thing was she felt so isolated and lonely’

Stewart explains her admiration for Diana as Spencer premieres at Venice, while the film-makers behind Dune stress its contemporary relevance

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