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Viola Davis stars as a warrior chieftain in ‘The Woman King’; a sprawling cast brings zany humour to 1930s-set ‘Amsterdam’; rousing documentary ‘Nothing Compares’ homes in on Sinéad O’Connor’s life in pop and protest; Stephen Frears’ ‘The Lost King’ goes on the trail of Richard III; Lesley Manville brings panache to ‘Mrs Harris Goes to Paris’ — reviews by Danny Leigh and Leslie Felperin
A plucky outsider seeks to rectify a centuries-old libel in Stephen Frears’s utterly English film
Gina Prince-Bythewood takes 19th-century African history and turns it into a Hollywood action spectacular
Kathryn Ferguson’s rousing documentary helps us to understand a complex character
The Oscar-winning film director is also architect of an extraordinary design practice. In an exclusive interview he talks about his side hustle in interiors, his obsession with details and his drive to dare
Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington and many more in a 1930s-set story of ex-soldiers and murder
She produced female-driven projects such as ‘Big Little Lies’ — now she wants more socio-economic diversity in the industry
Tom Morton-Smith on adapting Studio Ghibli’s beloved movie with puppets, music and a giant, furry cat-bus
The wealth gap, religious divides and family tensions come in for exposure at this year’s ‘best of the best’ event
Myanmar-made documentary shows how conflict pulls people apart and together
Romain Gavras brings visual flare to the story of brothers caught up in urban violence, but his film has little to say
Zac Efron, Bill Murray and Russell Crowe star in the quixotic tale of a New Yorker taking refreshment to troops in Vietnam
A London cleaner goes from the dog track to Dior in a feelgood caper also starring Isabelle Huppert
The maker of ‘The Queen’ returns to royal themes with ‘The Lost King’, which dramatises the search for Richard III’s remains
A 14-year-old resists marriage at all costs in the ‘Girls’ creator’s 13th-century-set comedy
Robbed of its furnishings but not its sole inhabitant, the Manhattan pad is a powerful symbol of introspection — and of starting afresh
Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner-Smith star as a couple who acquire an android to help their adopted Chinese daughter adapt to life in the US
Reginald Hudlin’s film surveys the actor’s moments of triumph but also the racism he overcame to get there
Ana de Armas stars in an oppressive biopic full of crass images and a trudging timeline
The author reveals why she wrote a novel about the Hollywood icon — and what she thinks of the Netflix film version
The actor, now playing an FBI bigwig opposite Jeff Bridges in ‘The Old Man’, reflects on a career of surprising variety
Florence Pugh and Harry Styles star in Olivia Wilde’s thriller that goes from idyll to nightmare to botched bombshell
The track from Pinocchio, now remade as a live-action film, has a yearning quality that has brought dozens of artists to cover it
An invigorating array of movies also included Key and Peele in animation ‘Wendell & Wild’ and Korea’s beguiling ‘Walk Up’
Hindi-based industry faces test as film fans flock to movies made in languages such as Tamil and Telugu
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