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  • Dragon Mill performers on stage at the Empyre fire festival in Adelaide

    Fire dancers bring flames and flow to Adelaide

    Empyre fire festival celebrates an ancient art that’s both performance and a meditative experience
  • A composite image of a priest, an opera singer, a woman in a club, a man and woman in an office

    From The Brutalist to Conclave: what is the state of this year’s Oscar race?

    With most of the year’s awards-aiming films now premiered at fests, potential nominees are starting to fall into place
  • A woman wearing an apron gazes at a miniature of a snowy peak inside an orange room

    First look review
    The End review – Joshua Oppenheimer’s end-of-days musical is ambitious and exhausting

    The documentarian makes his hit-and-miss narrative debut with help from Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon as privileged parents in a luxury bunker
  • Writers, actors, and comedians gather in the dressing room of a television set in the 70s

    First look review
    Saturday Night review – tedious SNL origins tale is an unfunny misfire

    Toronto film festival: Jason Reitman’s 70s-set comedy detailing the first-ever episode of Saturday Night Live is a dull and self-indulgent mess
  • Kabin Crew and Lisdoonvarna Crew.

    ‘They put Cork on the map!’: what the kids behind rap sensation The Spark did next

    Theirs was the feelgood song of the summer – praised by Stormzy and reaching hundreds of millions of listeners online. But what’s it like to go on the road when you’re still at school?
  • Shroomadelic sights … Mushrooms and Friends by Phyllis Ma.

    The Guardian picture essay
    Shroom with a view: photo gems from Images Vevey – in pictures

    Boasting trippy trees and fluorescent fungi, the Swiss biennale returns with around 50 photography-based projects centred on the topic (dis)connected
  • A still from The Piano Lesson

    First look review
    The Piano Lesson review – powerful yet patchy August Wilson drama

  • This image released by Paramount Pictures shows a scene from "Better Man." (Paramount Pictures via AP)

    First look review
    Better Man review – Robbie Williams monkey biopic is a bananas gamble that pays off

  • Vermiglio film still - at Toronto film festival

    First look review
    Vermiglio review – secrets and lies in idyllic Italian village in the shadow of war

  • A still from The Bibi Files

    ‘I’ve never seen the depth of moral corruption’: controversial Netanyahu doc screens at Toronto

  • woman wearing white and black top and pearls

    First look review
    Without Blood review – Angelina Jolie’s lacklustre war drama is another misfire

  • man wearing glasses and patterned button-down with a candle in front of him

    First look review
    Heretic review – Hugh Grant has devilishly dark fun in talky, twisty horror

  • close-up of man and woman touching foreheads

    First look review
    The Return review – Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reunite in drab drama

  • A man wearing a brown jacket and black backpack in New York City turns around

    First look review
    Relay review – Riz Ahmed is a fixer on a mission in a throwback thriller

  • Parkour, pyrotechnics and pram-dancing: Greenwich + Docklands international festival 2024 – in pictures

  • Patti Scialfa, Bruce Springsteen’s wife and bandmate, reveals blood cancer diagnosis

  • Elton John: Donald Trump’s Rocket Man nickname for Kim Jong-un was ‘brilliant’ and ‘hilarious’

  • Amy Adams in Nightbitch

    First look review
    Nightbitch review – Amy Adams turns into a dog in rough dark comedy

    The multiple Oscar nominee has some fun as a mother at the end of her tether but this unsubtle mix of comedy and horror doesn’t go far enough
  • A still from Piece By Piece

    First look review
    Piece by Piece review – Pharrell’s Lego biopic deserves to be a blockbuster

    Toronto film festival: The endlessly inventive musician gets an unlikely yet deserving biopic told via plastic bricks – a big swing that more than pays off
  • Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen in The Assessment.

    First look review
    The Assessment review – Alicia Vikander is future parents’ worst nightmare

    In a world ravaged by climate change, a couple wanting children have to submit to an intrusive assessment of their relationship in Fleur Fortuné’s surreal, stylish debut
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