Falling House review – fierce tale of an Iranian prison guard holding his family hostage

Venice film festival: Mohsen Gharaei’s powerfully acted domestic drama watches as the failing patriarch attempts to contain family rebellion

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home review – Kirk, Spock and co on semi-intentionally hilarious save-the-whale mission

Our heroes travel back through time to San Francisco in 1986 so they can commune with aliens threatening future Earth – it’s preposterously good fun

Lomu review – fascinatingly nuanced tribute to rugby’s first superstar

His destructive pace and power changed the game for ever, but behind the fame and impassive exterior of this gentle giant was a life of chaos and emotional discord

Ink review – Danny Boyle turns the birth of the Sun into a lurid tabloid frenzy

Venice film festival Jack O’Connell is terrific as editor Larry Lamb in James Graham’s tale of Rupert Murdoch, Page 3 and the newspaper that transformed Fleet Street

Mayday review – Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh set cold war bromance alight

An American fighter pilot teams up with a retired KGB officer for hijinks and hilarity in Soviet Russia

Fall 2 (aka Fall 2: Deadpoint) review – silly seat-edge sequel can’t reach heights of the original

There are just about enough hand-over-mouth moments to please thrill-seekers in this B-movie follow-up but eyerolls soon prevail

Star Wars Zero Company review – joyfully absurd heroics with a tight-knit team of misfits

Split priorities between scripted and emergent story moments hamper an otherwise brilliant Star Wars-themed successor to XCOM

Late Fame review – Willem Dafoe superb as ever as twilight-years bohemian getting a second chance

Adaptation of an Arthur Schnitzler novella sees Dafoe’s ageing poet embraced by a younger cohort of capricious hipsters. It’s smart, literate and affecting

Hungry review – hippo horror sees multi-ton mammal run amok among bayou boat-trippers

A group of thinly drawn characters on a Louisiana tour fight for survival against a rampaging vegetarian

The Runner review – Gal Gadot stumbles through derivative high-speed, low-rent thriller

A string of London locations can’t save Amazon’s overly familiar B-movie dragged down by another ineffective performance by the Wonder Woman star

Super Nature review – crowd-sourced Super 8 film is a triumphant collage of hope for the natural world

Film-maker Ed Sayers’ project gathered footage from collaborators all over the world, cleverly edited to combine human and animal contributions

The Extractor review – Indonesian hostage-rescue thriller has surprising thread of gentleness at its core

Iko Uwais directs and acts in the story of a band of elite soldiers who must rescue a group of researchers taken captive in the jungle

Pin de Fartie review – spoonerist remix of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame finds fresh absurdity in Argentina

Beckett’s masterpiece is given a postmodern cinema slant, with characters in different locations, music and humour in a free and fanciful interpretation

Onslaught review – super soldier slasher doesn’t go hard enough

There’s a committed performance from a spunky Adria Arjona in the Guest director Adam Wingard’s decent B-movie but it’s missing some sharper weaponry

Parasomnia review – sleep-schedule horror conjures up a succubus on the loose in waking nightmare

Debut director James Ross II shows promise in this gore fest, but the fear factor suffers from an overly complex plot