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<p>Jack Black at the LA premiere of ‘Anaconda’ this week</p>

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Have we massively underestimated Jack Black’s appeal?

Dwayne Johnson and Glen Powell haven’t been able to open movies to big numbers this year – but, with ‘The Minecraft Movie’ and ‘Anaconda’, Black has opened two. What is it about him that audiences love, asks Adam White

<p>‘Sentimental Value’ director Joachim Trier with his stars Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Elle Fanning, Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgård</p>

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Stellan Skarsgård: ‘Truthfully, you can never be a good parent’

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Timothée Supreme: How Chalamet finally escaped boy-next-door purgatory

<p>Filmmaker Rob Reiner on the set of ‘When Harry Met Sally’, with his stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan</p>

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Rob Reiner was joy personified – and his movies were warm hugs

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<p>Gloria Swanson as the faded movie star Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s ‘Sunset Boulevard’</p>

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Hollywood is poison – and Sunset Boulevard exposed it all

Seventy-five years after its release, Billy Wilder’s melodramatic satire on celebrity culture and faded stardom – starring Gloria Swanson as its grotesque heroine – retains its tragic grandeur, writes Xan Brooks

<p>The AI critic is an irksome presence, flooding the zone with his mediocre critiques, constantly trawling for clicks and likes</p>

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Film critics are great because they’re flawed. AI critics are nothing

Artificial intelligence has given rise to a new breed of movie pundit – one that gloms onto consensus opinion and regurgitates rote praise. Xan Brooks looks out at this new frontier of film criticism and despairs