Good books, bad films: why does Ian McEwan never translate on screen?

While reviewers enjoy moaning about his novels, McEwan is enjoying a new life on film. But whether it is On Chesil Beach or The Children Act, filming brilliant books is far from easy

The kids aren’t alright: is the YA movie boom over?

Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Twilight: only a few years ago young adult fantasy films were massive – but times, and teenagers, have changed

The Darkest Minds review – YA tropes smother teens-on-the-run drama

Amandla Stenberg and Mandy Moore star in this dystopian thriller about teenagers with superpowers attempting to escape a government internment camp

Women can be killers, not adulterers: Hollywood’s heroine problem

After two decades of film producers fretting over her taboo-breaking book Layover, novelist Lisa Zeidner asks if Hollywood is finally ready for a bed-hopping woman

Maurice review – Merchant Ivory’s EM Forster adaptation richer than ever

Hugh Grant and James Wilby star in this intensely poignant story of two young men forced to deny their love

Taylor Swift to star in Tom Hooper’s Cats movie

Singer-songwriter to take first major acting role, alongside Ian McKellen, James Corden and Jennifer Hudson, in Hooper’s adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical

Plus-size superhero Faith to get own movie

Sony and Valiant Comics are teaming up to make the ‘sci-fi-loving geek with telekinetic superpowers’ Hollywood’s first plus-sized superhero

The Bookshop review – boldly sombre drama puts Britain to rights

Emily Mortimer plays the quietly heroic shop owner at the heart of this fascinating Penelope Fitzgerald adaptation

Bonnie Wright: from Harry Potter to a menopause movie

Playing Ginny Weasley aged nine was Wright’s first job. Now in her late 20s, she talks about directing her Potter peers and her new AS Byatt adaptation

Asako I & II review – Japanese romcom flips the gaze to tell the same old story

Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s earnest romance switches things up by having a woman obsessed with a man’s beauty and then falling for his double

Fahrenheit 451 review – Michael B Jordan adaptation fails to catch fire

Rahim Bahrani’s version of the dystopian novel is set in a future where art is outlawed and official communication is mostly via emoji. Yet it feels both on-the-button and oddly off-pace

Leave No Trace review – deeply intelligent story of love and survival in the wild

Debra Granik’s complex study of an army vet and his daughter living in a vast public park is the film Captain Fantastic should have been

Wildlife review – director Paul Dano luxuriously evokes smalltown woes

Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal’s marriage capsizes in 50s Montana in an impressive directorial debut by Dano, based on the Richard Ford novel

Return to Albany: was William Kennedy’s Ironweed machine-tooled for the Oscars?

Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson gunned for gold statues in this widely panned adaptation of William Kennedy’s 1983 novel. But there’s plenty to tug at the heartstrings

The Seagull review – all-star cast brings out the comedy in Chekhov

Packed with names such as Annette Bening, Elisabeth Moss and Saoirse Ronan, this adaptation of the classic play is brisk and funny