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Brad Pitt in an action packed, star-filled thriller and a daring, life-saving rescue from Ron Howard

Director David Leitch brings a stuntman’s eye for mayhem and a satisfying sense of comic timing to his latest high-octane action comedy, Bullet Train

Reese Witherspoon: Oscar-winning actor turned multimedia magnate

The Hollywood star’s latest production, Where the Crawdads Sing, has been derided by the critics, but is proving a hit with fans of Delia Owens’s source novel

A road movie that barely learns to drive ultimately careers out of control

Emer Reynolds’s feature debut Joyride has an impressive cast, but sorely lacks any kind of comic subtlety, writes John Maguire

Syrupy Crawdads adaptation fails to resonate; Ryan Gosling causes mayhem in The Gray Man

The screen version of Delia Owens’s popular novel, Where the Crawdads Sing, turns a complex and often dark story of marginalisation and murder into a flat, overly sanitised film

John Maguire: Bardem excels in Spanish corporate satire while McEnroe cools off court

The deceptively upbeat The Good Boss follows a week in the life of a ruthless Spanish factory owner trying to keep his company afloat

Thor: Love And Thunder – Waititi dampens expectations with noisy but predictable sequel

Taika Waititi’s latest contribution to the Marvel franchise sacrifices story and characterisation for massive battles and a thunderous soundtrack

Nitram: Disturbing story behind Australian mass shooting is carried by powerhouse acting

Justin Kurzel’s retelling of the 1996 mass killing in Port Arthur in Tasmania seeks to to explain the inexplicable in simple, human terms

Elvis needs a little more conversation, a little less action

Baz Luhrmann’s heavily-hyped biopic of Presley isn’t quite saved by Austin Butler’s splendid performance as the King

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande: Thompson shines in a story of frustrated sexuality

The veteran actress is compulsively watchable as a middle-aged former schoolteacher in Sophie Hyde’s new film

Jurassic World Dominion: Extinction would be a welcome escape from these dinosaurs

The latest painful dragging out of what was once an awe-inspiring spectacle would have you running gladly into the gnashers of the nearest T-Rex

The last real movie star: How Tom Cruise has endured despite gaffe-prone lapses

The Hollywood legend, who turns 60 next month, has come blasting back with a sequel to the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun – but remains an enigma even after four decades in the business

John Maguire: Garland’s third film fatally overreaches in a parable of male failings

Men loses all coherence long before the end despite its director’s ambitious attempt to meld the folk horror genre with a critique of gender violence

John Maguire: Cruise control of a slap-bang sequel can’t obscure the passing of the years

The new Top Gun sequel is a sobering reminder that, even for Hollywood megastars, time marches relentlessly on

John Maguire: Slow-burning Conversations with Friends is tempered by a sharp script

Sally Rooney’s debut novel comes to the small screen, while Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan bring us a high-spirited homage to Asian cinema

John Maguire on film: Tiny details combine to make An Cailín Ciúin a true classic

Colm Bairéad’s debut feature may well be the best Irish-language film ever made

John Maguire on film: Raimi struggles to navigate Marvel’s increasingly well-trodden landscape

The 28th instalment of the Marvel Comics Universe has its moments, but is undermined by a predictable and uninteresting script

John Maguire on film: Downton’s New Era is nothing but the same old story

A second attempt to wring more cash out of the Downton Abbey franchise falls flat on its face

John Maguire on film: Vartolomei shines in Happening, a tragic tale set in 1960s France

Anamaria Vartolomei is mesmeric in Audrey Diwan’s new film, the story of a young woman desperately trying to get an abortion as time is running out

John Maguire on film: The Northman, a Viking tale that thrills with unsettling visions and ferocious violence

Director Robert Eggers brings to life the Norse myth that inspired Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a breathtaking action-filled epic

Profile: How Jessie Buckley conquered the worlds of music, musicals, theatre, television and film

Jessie Buckley last week won an Olivier award for her portrayal of Sally Bowles in a revival of Cabaret, and was recently nominated for an Oscar for her role in the film The Lost Daughter, but the Killarney-born singer and actor had to cope with numerous disappointments as she embarked on what has become a stellar career