The Universal Theory review – beautiful, wigged-out German multiverse mystery

Gorgeous images and a lush score intrigue in Timm Kröger’s 60s-set noir thriller about a postgrad student’s alpine adventures

Sujo review – slow-burning Mexican drug cartel drama

A young man struggles to escape his bloody birthright in Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez’s elegant Sundance winner

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl review – dizzyingly creative Zambian funeral comedy drama

Humour and pathos go hand in hand in Rungano Nyoni’s award-winning second feature

Jude Law: ‘The persona built on stuff written about me is not me, it’s this other guy’

The actor on 90s nostalgia, how exhaustion helped with his latest role, and his guilt at revealing the truth about Christmas classic The Holiday

‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his new film about the threat to democracy

The man behind Amy and Senna has turned his attention to ‘techno-authoritarianism’ in the genre-defying 2073. He talks to our journalist – one of the movie’s unlikely stars – about the events that fed his dystopian vision

Queer review – seedily terrific Daniel Craig carries Luca Guadagnino’s artificial-looking drama

The Call Me by Your Name director’s overlong William Burroughs adaptation boasts some fine performances, but any gritty realism feels totally manicured

‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis

More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports on a broken system

She didn’t get an apartment because of an AI-generated score – and sued to help others avoid the same fate

Despite a stellar reference from a landlord of 17 years, Mary Louis was rejected after being screened by firm SafeRent

Nightbitch review – Amy Adams carries frustrating mum-on-the-edge comedy drama

Adams plays a struggling mother who starts to turn into a dog in Marielle Heller’s uneven adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s bestseller

‘It’s game over for facts’: how vibes came to rule everything from pop to politics

From voters picking up ‘bad vibes’ to the Brat girl summer, vague instincts now make the world go round. Does this represent a crisis of seriousness or has it always been feelings that make us human?

Aaron Pierre: ‘There wasn’t one day filming Rebel Ridge that I didn’t have a bruise or a cut’

His intense turn in Netflix’s smash hit thriller made the Croydon-born actor go global. Next up he’s playing Mufasa in the Lion King prequel. Bring on the big roles, he says

Dune at 40: David Lynch’s oddball adaptation remains a fascination

Auteur’s strange and exuberant 1984 epic was the subject of ridicule in years following but it deserves a second chance

Snap out of it: Manchester club joins growing trend to ban phone cameras

Nightclub director says they ‘really want the music and experience to be at the forefront’, following in the footsteps of Berlin’s club scene

Carry-On review – Taron Egerton channels Kenneth Connor in misleadingly titled Netflix thriller

Sadly for UK viewers, this is not a sexy reboot of one of our greatest film franchises. All the roles in it, however, have their equivalents

BBC says it has complained to Apple over AI-generated fake news attributed to broadcaster

Notifications from a new Apple product falsely suggested the BBC claimed the New York gunman Luigi Mangione had killed himself