From Charli xcx to Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives: the week in rave reviews

Brat in black … Charli xcx. Photograph: Tyrell HamptonView image in fullscreenBrat in black …

Charli xcx. Photograph: Tyrell HamptonFrom Charli xcx to Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives: the week in rave reviewsThe glitch-pop great is back with a banger-stuffed new album, and reality TV may have some new stars thanks to Channel 4. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviewsTVIf you only watch one, make it …

A Toxic Love StoryNetflix; available nowView image in fullscreen‘Keeps you watching, goggle-eyed and barely breathing’ … A Toxic Love Story. Photograph: NetflixSummed up in a sentence An astonishing true-crime story about the Anaheim Craigslist case – and who was behind the harassment of a couple that led to one of them being attacked by a rape fantasist.

What our reviewer said “Keeps you watching, goggle-eyed and barely breathing, until the end.” Lucy ManganRead the full reviewPick of the restSecret Lives of Gypsy WivesChannel 4; available nowView image in fullscreenWell Travelled … The charming Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives.

Photograph: Jude Edgington/Channel 4/OptomenSummed up in a sentence A reality show following TikTok influencer and member of the Traveller community, Trewley Precious, as well as her three sisters and mum.What our reviewer said “They are like the Kardashians if Kris’s pod people had a sense of humour, irrepressible energy, charm and an abundance of affection for each other.” Lucy ManganRead the full reviewYou may have missed …

Wrestling With TrumpChannel 4; available nowView image in fullscreenPolitical football … Munya Chawawa throws himself into the fray. Photograph: Channel 4Summed up in a sentence Munya Chawawa heads to the US to investigate the link between Donald Trump’s style of politics and WWE.

What our reviewer said “Punchy, passionate and weirdly uplifting.” Lucy ManganRead the full reviewMake That MovieChannel 4; available nowSummed up in a sentence Last One Laughing finalist Sam Campbell delivers one of the funniest shows of the year, with this mockumentary about a director who makes awful films.What our reviewer said “So ostentatiously silly that it deserves to be paraded around the streets.”

Stuart HeritageRead the full reviewFurther reading ‘People are like: you’re a crackpot’: how Sam Campbell became comedy’s oddball superstarFilmIf you only watch one, make it …Ask E JeanIn cinemas nowView image in fullscreenA legal matter … E Jean Carroll who still has questions for Donald Trump.

Photograph: DogwoofSummed up in a sentence Engrossing film by Ivy Meeropol following former star columnist E Jean Carroll, now in her 80s, as she battles Donald Trump through a still-unfinished series of legal disputes.What our reviewer said “The sheer creepiness of Trump is what is so striking: with nauseating contempt, he proclaimed that she ‘wasn’t his type’ – as if that airy claim has anything to do with it.” Peter BradshawRead the full reviewFurther reading E Jean Carroll receives $5.

6m owed by Trump after court releases damagesPick of the restFlavors of IraqIn cinemas nowView image in fullscreenBitter taste … Animated true-life tale Flavors of Iraq. Photograph: DocHouseSummed up in a sentence Powerful animation portraying experiences of a French-Iraqi journalist Feurat Alani, with vivid childhood memories of 80s Baghdad and anecdotes about his father, a prominent leftist exile.

What our reviewer said “The film is at its strongest when Alani is a child, and the film is surely inspired by the Iranian animation Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. It has urgency and muscular force.” Peter BradshawRead the full reviewOn the SeaIn cinemas nowSummed up in a sentence Away from the disapproval of their Welsh fishing community, two men embark on a passionate affair in Helen Walsh’s poignant drama.

What our reviewer said “There is sincerity and force to this well-intended, well-acted Brokeback drama of forbidden love from writer-director Helen Walsh, who is that rare and valuable figure in the arts world: a novelist who is of equal status as an original film-maker.” Peter BradshawRead the full reviewNostalgiaIn cinemas nowSummed up in a sentence A scholar has an existential crisis while researching the life of a composer in Tarkovsky’s deeply mysterious and profound Italy-set cine-poem from 1983.What our reviewer said “It is about alienation and belonging, a film whose title means a yearning not simply for a lost time or lost place but for something, anything, else – with a profound anguished sense that the here-and-now of existence is unsatisfactory.”

Peter BradshawRead the full reviewNow streaming …The DinkApple TV; available nowView image in fullscreenServing the laughs … Jake Johnson as Dustin Boyd and Ed Harris as Chuck Boyd in The Dink.

Photograph: Andrew Cooper/Apple TVSummed up in a sentence Jake Johnson plays a delusional ex-tennis player who has to switch to pickleball, the sport he loathes, after injury in engagingly silly comedy.What our reviewer said “Inevitabl