Kaouther Ben Hania’s ethically dubious docu-fiction film about a Gazan child’s last moments is one of the most distressing films of the last decade

We're back in the land of Oz with Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo for the second half of the Wicked adaptation. It's a box office hit, but critics have been divided. Was making a Wicked sequel the best or worst move for the franchise?   Timothée Chalamet is flooding Liv and Miranda's timelines with a string of press stunts: from a spoof marketing Zoom call and designer merch collabs to commissioning orange blimps to hype his new film. So who is the little-known 29-year-old Glaswegian behind the stunts who is collaborating with Timothée, Charli XCX, and Billie Eilish?   Watch full episodes on YouTube - HERE    Read Wendy's review of Wicked: For Good HERE    Liv and Miranda love to share their recommendations, here's what's on their radar this week:    Liv: Burgonia (film)   Miranda:  This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich by Daniel Rachel (book)    Read more On My Radar recommendations from The Observer's New Review HERE    Let's chat! Send us your voice notes!  @WeHaveNotes_Pod on Instagram @WeHaveNotes_Pod on TikTok wehavenotes@observer.co.uk via email     

The latest instalment of the zombie franchise explores the darkest side of human nature

Rowan Athale’s boxing drama is flat-footed and plodding; plus, a delightful tribute to the much-missed comedian

Jessie Buckley is a force of nature as Shakespeare’s witchy wife in Hamnet

Did this full-hearted, rhinestone-encrusted tribute to Neil Diamond have to be so unremittingly bland?

Excitement surrounds new epics from Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan, while purists are braced for Emerald Fennell’s racy take on Emily Brontë

Wendy Ide on the movies of the year, from Pillion to Marty Supreme

Joachim Trier’s latest movie, acutely observed and frequently droll, explores the cracks of generational trauma

Josh Safdie’s film is an exhausting visual onslaught. I loved every jangling second

The director, found dead at the age of 78, directed endlessly quotable films that became genre-defining classics, from This Is Spinal Tap to When Harry Met Sally

June Squibb stars in Scarlett Johansson’s timid, wasted opportunity of a directorial debut

This venomous depiction of an obsessed, grasping fan is a supremely assured directorial debut from Beef screenwriter Alex Russell

Dissident director Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winning thriller, about a mismatched group who abduct their suspected prison torturer, holds a mirror up to a traumatised Tehran

With a quarter of the 21st century almost behind us, The Observer’s editors and film critics choose the most memorable movies of the last 25 years

This tale of Richard Rodgers’s drunk and bitter former writing partner Lorenz Hart is elegantly witty and melancholic

This ‘dom-com’ about a timid traffic warden who meets a surly, leather-clad alpha finds humour in the transgressive and the mundane

There’s a chilly, uncanny magic and dream logic to Lucile Hadžihalilović’s story of a diva movie star played by Marion Cotillard

Our critic picks five cultural highlights, whether you have 50 minutes, an afternoon or a whole day to spare