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Viggo Mortensen is on sparkling form as a caring if deluded father raising his family away from society’s influence
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Mexican director Amat Escalante follows his award-winning Heli with a deeply strange story of orgasmic frenzies and family dysfunction
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Speaking at a screening of Bright Lights, about her relationship with mother Debbie Reynolds, the actor and writer reveals she is taking classes to cope with the ageing process
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Gibson returns to the directing chair after a decade dogged by controversy, dwelling on the faith inspired bravery of his film’s conscientious-objector protagonist
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Character actor adept at portraying hoods and cops and regularly cast in films by the Coen brothers
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The French star on playing a Bond villain, learning from Spielberg and calling the shots in his erotic thriller The Blue Room
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The Breaking Bad star gives a showy performance as a businessman who leaves his job to hole himself away and spy on wife Jennifer Garner in this grating and bizarre adaptation of EL Doctorow’s short story
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This brutal, illuminating change of direction from the Austrian dramatist of the grotesque is a semi-staged documentary provoking legitimate revulsion
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The first two episodes of the Italian director’s lavish series have premiered in Venice: a heady taster boasting extraordinary visuals, fascinating Vatican machinations – and Diane Keaton in a wimple
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Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star in this superb second feature from the fashion designer turned film director
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Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander give heartfelt performances in a tale of love and sacrifice that isn’t afraid to hit cymbal-crashing levels of sentimentality
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Ridley and son Luke turn in a passable sci-fi thriller, but the horror turns to shlock as the film heads for a predictable twist ending
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Racism, sexism, inappropriate coupling: Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen cheerily mine every taboo for a laugh in this sequel to the 2012 sleeper hit
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Our final episode, including reviews of the new Woody Allen, Seth Rogen’s raunchy food animation and Mia Hansen-Løve’s late-life crisis drama
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Shortly to premiere at the Venice film festival, David Lynch: The Art Life takes viewers on a journey with the iconic American director, back to his formative years in small-town Montana and the harder streets of Philadelphia
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Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone star in musical romance La La Land, the new movie from Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash
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The writer and director talks to Catherine Shoard about boredom, luxury and his 20 tickets a week lottery habit
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Wilder starred in classics such as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and collaborated extensively with Mel Brooks in movies such as Young Frankenstein, The Producers and Blazing Saddles
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The Guardian film team discuss the latest films hitting UK cinemas
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David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike star as real-life couple Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams, who caused an international outcry when they married in 1948
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Long maligned by critics after his initial successes, the would-be auteur has charted his own path to success by giving his loyal fans more of the same
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The super-strong mercenary could well be a canny choice of adversary for Ben Affleck’s murderous, morally unhinged version of Batman
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The summer season has seen more than its share of box office flops, and nervous studios are already looking for the next big thing
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As Brotherhood hits cinemas, it’s time to say goodbye to a series that represented urban youth culture in an important and reflective way
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The bankrobber thriller is being hailed as a havoc-strewn saviour of indie cinema. But, says its Scottish director David Mackenzie, that doesn’t mean he’s waiting for the call from Marvel …
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When the French director decided to make Things to Come, a film based on her mother’s life starring Isabelle Huppert, she found there are some lines you can’t cross
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The prolific director returns next month with Café Society and a TV series. Here, he talks exclusively about sex, antisemitism, the impact of that abuse allegation – and his dream of racing Usain Bolt
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The killer caravanner from Sightseers is now playing a homicidal mother-to-be in Prevenge, her directorial debut. She talks about creating an anti-superheroine and her fear of being pigeonholed
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The director’s new film tells the true story of two weapons wheeler-dealers who get hired by the Pentagon. It’s a long way from the usual frat boy hijinks
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The director of White Girl partied herself into oblivion as a teenager. Now she’s turned that experience into an unflinching account of a young woman’s sex-and-drugs lifestyle that addresses class, racism and white privilege
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He survived a car crash, lost two friends then found fame in the Oscar-winning Whiplash. Tim Lewis meets Miles Teller, whose success is shadowed by reports of ‘dickishness’
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UK box office reportUK box office reportCringe, little benefit: David Brent flounders in Finding Dory's wakeLife on the Road earns Ricky Gervais’s aspiring musician £1.5m in ticket sales, while Finding Dory overtakes Suicide Squad and swims back to No 1
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentChef's Table: Netflix offers up food porn par excellenceDavid Gelb’s foodie documentary heads to France to profile cuisine that’s too haute to handle. Shame you won’t be able to afford any of it
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Silent but deadly!Silent but deadly!Sunset Boulevard: what Billy Wilder's satire really tells us about HollywoodThe scathing black comedy offers up bitterness and grotesquery but also a revealing, and complicated, look at the end of the silent era
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsFlorence Foster Jenkins; Captain America: Civil War; The People v OJ Simpson; Les cowboys – reviewMeryl Streep hits all the right wrong notes as the tone-deaf soprano
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Week in geekWeek in geekDeathstroke: the perfect Batman villain for DC's vision of violence?The super-strong mercenary could well be a canny choice of adversary for Ben Affleck’s murderous, morally unhinged version of Batman
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John PattersonJohn PattersonCaptain Fantastic: the bloody family drama shows a new side to Viggo MortensenViggo Mortensen is on sparkling form as a caring if deluded father raising his family away from society’s influence
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After a six-year absence, the actress returns to our screens this month as cinema’s highest profile singleton. But don’t mistake the much-analysed star for the character she plays
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As I Open My Eyes tells the story of a Tunis band and the Ben Ali regime. But even after the Arab spring, the region’s youth are still waiting for freedom, says its director, Leyla Bouzid
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The movies have made a fortune out of religion over the years – and avoided the subject of atheism. But in Seth Rogen’s sweary CGI comedy Sausage Party, the idea of God is challenged. Will it cash in on America’s surge in non-belief?
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The Fab Four rock, The Magnificent Seven reload, Obama goes on a date – and Bridget Jones gets the baby blues. Our arts preview continues with autumn’s unmissable films
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Enduring partnerships with Richard Pryor, Gilda Radner and Mel Brooks show Wilder’s gift wasn’t just his own mastery, but an ability to coax it from others, too
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Which film won this year’s Palme d’Or? Did anyone not have a cameo in Absolutely Fabulous? Tackle these celluloid conundrums and more
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The latest crop of big-budget summer films have fared dismally because the big studios are betting more money on fewer films. A flop is now a very expensive flop
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