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A fawning new Netflix documentary about the iconic astrologer shies away from the more problematic aspects of his success 

In the director’s sweeping new Vietnam War film, it is never clear ‘who is the colonizer and who is the colonized’ 

The AI host of Netflix’s latest reality dating show is the love child of Big Tech and Saint Augustine

A new Netflix documentary and an online exhibition at Fierman Gallery, New York, celebrate the legacy of a shuttered gay bookstore, and the world disappearing along with it 

The controversial star of Netflix’s latest documentary is hard to watch – but harder to stop watching

Paywalls are going up everywhere, intellectual property is being jealously hoarded, and the long-predicted streaming wars are finally on

From parafactual entertainment to teen TV and the ‘flood’ of content

The new film is neither as sombre and meditative as the work of contemporaries such as Robert Redford, nor as adaptive as the real-world activism of Jane Fonda

Or, the links between Brexit and suspense television

A timely documentary about the backslide into dictatorship reveals some uncomfortable home truths in the US

The Hollywood Reporter’s Deputy Editorial Director explores art and the entertainment industry - and gives her Oscar predictions

Scheming dealers, demonic sculptures and filthy lucre: in Dan Gilroy’s Faustian tale, art takes murderous revenge

A visual homage to the Netflix documentary

Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma is full of other movies, yet it ignores the political and dialectical history of movies themselves

Narratively, the ‘choose your own adventure’ film is a dead-end, with repetition and wheel-spinning increasingly producing frustration

From Kader Attia's couscous sculptures and Isa Genzken's 'towers', to Rorschach tests and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

Jörg Heiser on memes, memory and Errol Morris's Wormwood

Netflix is actively and self-servingly restricting the platforms films can occupy, but it’s not the only one grumbling about Cannes’s fussy rules

In further news: art dealer and Warhol friend killed in Trump Tower fire; UK arts organizations’s gender pay gap revealed; Pussy Riot sell activist clothing

This new docu-series on a cult established in Oregon in the 1980s is a timely exercise in tolerance and a fascinating insight into extremism