The movie business is hoping for a turnaround after limping into the summer season with a shortage of big movies
Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman seek to save the world (and Marvel Studios) as ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’; Nuri Bilge Ceylan directs slow-moving fable ‘About Dry Grasses’; the surreal ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ is a 1990s coming-of-age thriller; Mexican documentary ‘The Echo’ puts children centre stage; ‘Twisters’ is a whirlwind blockbuster that revisits the 1996 original; set in Istanbul, ‘Crossings’ is a deeply human drama of mismatch and optimism — reviews by Danny Leigh
Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun shows singular talent in a surreal coming-of-age movie that’s like little else
Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns with a wintry story about a schoolteacher exiled to the countryside
Children take centre stage in Tatiana Huezo’s film about growing up in a remote village 3,000 metres above sea level
The superheroes unite to fix a world-ending crisis and Marvel’s recent woes
A new BBC documentary gathers harrowing testimony from living witnesses of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
US tech giant’s Prime Video unit acquires stages and workshops where productions such as ‘Dracula’ were made
Riyadh builds studios and offers financial incentives in drive to develop lucrative creative sector
Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker shows a keen ear for the language of cinema in her directorial debut
June Squibb stars as a have-a-go granny in a comedy also featuring Richard Roundtree of ‘Shaft’ fame
A sullen teenage boy and a stern ex-school teacher go in search of her missing niece
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell find love amid the flying debris orchestrated by ‘Minari’ director Lee Isaac Chung
Osgood Perkins directs Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage in a 1990s-set tale of unsolved murders
The descendants of mass-murderer Rudolf Höss return to the family home fictionalised in ‘The Zone of Interest’
Artfully constructed bio-doc covers the producer’s greatest hits but also echoes his experimental tendencies
The filmmaker on helming this year’s only Disney Marvel film, fan scrutiny and his co-writing bromance with Ryan Reynolds
A Nasa launch director and a marketing whizz spark and squabble in this 1960s-set nostalgia-fest
Indie creators are going back to the first PlayStation’s crude 3D graphics to subvert expectations and elicit fright
Twenty trans and non-binary people recount their experiences through the guise of the time-travelling protagonist
Julio Torres directs and stars in caper about an aspiring Salvadorean toymaker and a demanding English art critic
Ti West shows a deadly eye for droll detail in follow-up to ‘X’ and ‘Pearl’
The Detroit disrupter’s troublemaking shtick hasn’t changed 30 years on — and the material’s age is showing
Company behind special effects in hits from ‘Dune’ to ‘Oppenheimer’ to expand into movie production
The protagonist in the Tokyo-set movie richly enjoys books, DVDs and cassettes in a home liberated from modern devices