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Most common unnamed characters for women are prostitute, nurse and receptionist
The great animator is celebrated in an exhibition at Tate Britain, London
Celebrities are just a side dish at the busy annual film event
Marvel’s ragtag space team return for an adventure blighted by family tensions
A team of astronauts blunder their way into the franchise’s signature demises in Ridley Scott’s sequel
French/Swiss story of a parentless boy combines colourful animation with surprising realism
Co-directed by Lynn Novick, ten-part series ‘The Vietnam War’ sheds new light on old wounds
Darren Aronofsky’s film arrives from the Venice Film Festival in a fug of angry catcalls and five-star reviews
A mad buffet of action cinema from South Korea
Judi Dench gives quite a performance but Stephen Frears’s film is disappointing
Director Sarmad Masud relocates the Western into rural Pakistan
The talking heads are stitched together with archive footage of the star in her chaotic milieu
A lobbyist accepts an offer from a competing firm to lead a campaign in support of gun control
US giants field expensive dramas against established local networks in online battle
A clever thriller that plays out in the snowy wilderness of Wyoming
Set in an unnamed war zone, this is a powerful piece of theatre-cinema
A Stephen King adaptation that isn’t the horror show it should be
A powerful documentary about group-therapy rehab in Folsom State Prison
An entertaining bio-doc about British parliament’s best-loved misfit
British director Andrew Haigh’s Western features a mesmerising central performance
Anne Fontaine’s film is set in a cruelly homophobic small town in rural France
Martin McDonagh’s latest boasts a piercing performance from Frances McDormand
A reworked Coen Brothers script yields a broad, zany slapstick noir
Competition from cinematic TV sends box-office returns down 35 per cent in August
The Culver Studios, where ‘The Matrix’ was filmed, may be leased for content arm
