Unidentified Murder review – playful sendup of alien abduction and true crime influencers in Hong Kong
Childhood friends claim to have witnessed the disappearance of a schoolkid in this low-budget comedy caper that pushes limits of storytelling
Woman Unknown review – postwar paranoia with some deliciously dastardly Du Maurier touches
A nanny becomes the new lady of a prosperous Copenhagen house as accused Nazi sympathisers are violently shamed in May el-Toukhy’s shrewd, painful portrait of survival
Possible Love review – a tale of two couples is finely judged study of exploitation and friendship
Venice film festival: Acclaimed Korean director Lee Chang-dong returns with an inspired account of an unhappy married couple befriended by a documentary maker and her wealthy husband
Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger review – mammoth tour movie brings the joy and poignancy of reunion
The Gallagher brothers’ comeback concerts are given the full fan-worship treatment, but it’s impossible to begrudge the euphoria they have created
A Long Winter review – hope, desire and subversion in Andrew Haigh’s beautiful winter western
In a remote Colorado farmstead, a family with a mother gone missing finds a strange buoyancy and freedom as they wait for the snows to melt
Tender Loving Care review – Mike Leigh’s tender and elusive study of love and mortality
Alice Bailey Johnson and Kate O’Flynn lead a tender, quietly heartbreaking drama about friendship, ageing parents and the sadness of lives moving inexorably on
Act 3 review – queer art history and life reflections from masters of metatextuality
Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s absorbing documentary is a parallel take on their relationship and a nascent drama on artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
The Basics of Philosophy review – Paul Schrader back to his cool, cruel best
When a figure from his past turns up to a family funeral, a college professor faces an agonising dilemma that makes him question his own morality and whether he can change
15/18 A Place to Heal review – heartfelt docu-realist study of a French teen psychiatric facility
Director Cédric Kahn combines compassion with coolly detailed forensic scrutiny in this genre-challenging film which puts a troubled love triangle at the centre of the story
Queer Edward II review – funny, touching time capsule of Derek Jarman at work
Venice film festival: Filmed during the making of his queer royal feature, while the director was living with HIV, the candid footage includes uproarious scenes at a Cliff Richard rehearsal
Faces of Death review – rework of notorious video nasty turns horror voyeurism into moral panic fable
A retelling of the 1978 ‘video nasty’ follows an online content moderator faced with steadily more appalling footage but reverts to generic bloodletting
Nessun Dolore review – sketchy Roman fable of liberal white guilt
A white man’s eyes are opened to cruelty and racism when a young boy is thrust into his life in Gianni Amelio’s bold but ultimately naive drama
Wild Horse Nine review – Malkovich and Rockwell head to Easter Island for McDonagh’s acid bromance
Venice film festivalTwo men, some violence, much freewheeling chat: so far, so standard fare from the Oscar-winning writer-director. But this time the comedy and charm can feel diluted by blood and machismo
By Any Means review – Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II drama provokes with horror of 1960s racism
Elegance Bratton’s civil rights drama in the Jim Crow south confronts you with almost unbearable brutality
Bucking Fastard review – Herzog’s starry twins soap provokes a syncing feeling
Venice film festival: Rooney and Kate Mara play the real-life Chaplin sisters who spoke in unsettling unison in this silly, pointless drama