As Julia Louis-Dreyfus tackles the death of her on-screen daughter in recent fantastical drama Tuesday, Guardian writers look back at the death scenes that ruined them

Designed to burnish a US retail chain’s brand, this tame entertainment won’t scare children too much, but it should bother the rest of us

This adaptation of JR Moehringer’s memoirs, directed by Clooney, is strikingly empty of plausible emotion

I can’t feel anything but eternal love for this propulsive, unrelenting time-travel sequel that changed my life

Rami Malek’s slasher horror, Bowie as a cyberpunk hacker, streetfighting Carmen Electra, and John Hurt down and dirty … improbable roles for A-listers

After three decades, the Back to the Future star is still happy to be known as zany scientist Doc Emmett Brown. He talks about the prescience of Biff Tannen’s politics and why he’s the only person alive to prefer the third film in the trilogy