Thunderbolts* star Florence Pugh on getting her way: ‘I was very sassy. I cornered a few people’
Florence Pugh knew what she wanted to do after she joined Marvel’s cast: jump off one of the world’s tallest buildings
Four new films to see this week
Thunderbolts*, Amongst the Wolves, Screamboat and Parthenope among film highlights
Screamboat: Mickey Mouse as a violent psychopath is no classic, but gory twist on Disney knows its audience
Low-rent bid to monetise the newly public-domain Steamboat Willie embraces violent mayhem with gusto
Parthenope: Paolo Sorrentino’s most leering film since his Berlusconi biopic
Italian auteur’s 11th feature is an ode to Naples too many. It also creates indelible moments
Four new films to see this week
Fréwaka is an eerie, subtle delve into Celtic mythology. Plus a gruesome Norwegian reworking of Cinderella, Naomi Watts and Bill Murray in a gentle story of friendship, and a thoroughly original drama from Georgia
The Ugly Stepsister: This Cinderella story is gruesome, hilarious and definitely not for children
Director Emilie Blichfeldt puts the grim back in the Brothers Grimm with revolting close-ups of body modifications, maggots and moulting
Fréwaka review: Aislinn Clarke’s Gaeltacht horror mines Irish mythology for socially conscious spookery
Terrific performances by Clare Monnelly and Bríd Ní Neachtain keep us guessing about what’s afoot
April director Dea Kulumbegashvili: ‘The woman was still alive, but they already knew they would not be able to save her’
The film-maker was taken aback by an incident at a hospital as she prepared to make her second feature. Everyday life in Georgia can be horrible, she says
Verdigris review: Irish director Patricia Kelly’s remarkable debut is a delicate drama about tricky subjects
Patricia Kelly’s first film is powered along by tremendous performances from Geraldine McAlinden and Maya O’Shea
Grand Tour review: An epic, enchanting globe-trotting adventure
The Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes thoroughly deserved his best-director award at Cannes
Julie Keeps Quiet director Leonardo Van Dijl: ‘I didn’t want to make a film about a hashtag’
The director’s debut feature is a gripping post-#MeToo drama about a teenage tennis prodigy. Has she been groomed?
Four new films to see this week
Engrossing Lennon/Ono doc is a fascinating time capsule. Plus an amusing Irish spin-off, a gritty, austere take on The Odyssey, and an exuberant, smash-hit French comedy
Holy Cow review: Box-office smash powered along by youthful exuberance, earthy sex scenes and keen naturalism
Louise Courvoisier’s film about an orphaned teen on a mission to make a prize-winning wheel of cheese has been a huge hit in France
The Return: In Ralph Fiennes’s new film, a minimalist take on The Odyssey, even the loincloths are skimpy
Uberto Pasolini’s adaptation of the gory closing chapters of Homer’s epic poem eschews witches, monsters and goddesses in favour of PTSD