The documentary maker, whose new film is about the unlikely US communist, has become one of Ireland’s most reliable cinematic truth-tellers

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Sacha Baron Cohen has returned to the character who made his name. People are already annoyed

Taika Waititi’s adaptation of the admired Kazuo Ishiguro novel is like an underdeveloped, overly long, candyfloss-swathed episode of Black Mirror

In an age of safe sequels and reboots, Laika Studios deserve credit for taking a swing

Academy Award nerds are already engraving the Elsinore star’s name on the best-actor trophy. All that stands in his way are pesky other actors

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The most disturbing sections introduce us to a tracking algorithm known, with blackly appalling insensitivity, as ‘Where’s Daddy?’

Naza has incensed the Netanyahu administration. That means the documentary’s revelations have frightened it, says the film-maker

The animation has the sort of heterogenous psychedelic zip with which early-1970s kids’ TV drew in class-skipping hippies

Grumbling has arisen around a new posthumous album of vocal gurglings from the foreman of The Fall with music added after his death. Which is fairly on-brand

Plus: What is Tony Manero carrying the first time we see him?

There are several clumsy moments in this puzzling take on the Peasants’ Revolt

Simon Stone’s bruising film features the Irish star as Ian Charleson, who was dying of Aids while playing Hamlet in 1989

Saint’s death at the mighty age of 102 marks the loss of another beacon of Hollywood’s postwar golden age