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'Should I become one of these people sitting and complaining about how difficult things have become? Or should I rather try and find a way? In the end, I decided to do whatever it took to keep working'

Interview

Jafar Panahi is Iran’s most important filmmaker. He was sentenced to jail after this interview

The award-winning director has endured imprisonment and censorship by his country’s leaders, who insist his movies are ‘anti-government propaganda’. Days before he was sentenced to further prison time, he spoke to Adam White about his new film ‘It Was Just an Accident’, and why making art always trumps dire consequences

Interview

Josh Brolin: ‘I shouldn’t have ended up where I ended up’

<p>‘The film’s obviously gonna push the buttons of a certain pocket of people’: ‘Pillion’ actors Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling</p>

In Focus

Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling on their very, very kinky romcom

Interview

Ben Foster: ‘Sydney Sweeney is in a unique position. She’s handling it incredibly well’

Inside Film

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

Inside Film

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

<p>And starring as himself: George Clooney is Jay Kelly in Noah Baumbach’s ‘Jay Kelly’</p>

Inside Film

George Clooney basically plays himself in Jay Kelly, and it’s wildly unconvincing

Noah Baumbach’s new comedy drama ‘Jay Kelly’ casts Clooney as a wealthy, handsome, pampered and indulged A-lister, and like many films in which fake stars opine about the miseries of celebrity, it quickly wears out its welcome, writes Xan Brooks