Guián review – celebration of multicultural identity through a Chinese grandmother in Costa Rica
Director Nicole Chi Amén embarks on a journey to learn more about her own mixed cultural heritage after the death of her Guangdong-born grandma
High Noon review – Billy Crudup brings classic Hollywood western back with a bang
Crudup and Denise Gough lead a tense adaptation that turns the film into a debate play whose McCarthy-era roots resonate powerfully today
Becoming Victoria Wood review – intimate and hilarious portrait of the trailblazing standup
Featuring Wood, her famous sidekicks Julie Walters and Celia Imrie and other female standups, this documentary is tender, moving and an absolute hoot
People We Meet on Vacation review – Netflix travel romcom is a dull journey
Emily Henry’s hit book has been adapted into a glossily made yet charmless attempt to resurrect the friends-to-lovers formula
Primate review – pet chimp gone wild makes for giddy, gory good time
There’s a great deal of unpretentious B-movie fun to be had in this brief, brutal and slickly made creature feature
Greenland 2: Migration review – disaster sequel is disastrously self-serious
Gerard Butler returns to keep his family safe from post-apocalyptic chaos in a glum and misjudged follow-up to the superior 2020 adventure
Labyrinth review – Jim Henson and David Bowie make beguiling magic in charmingly eccentric 80s classic
Jennifer Connelly plays a teenager having whimsical Alice in Wonderland-ish adventures in this 1986 family fantasy
Back to the Past review – everybody’s still gun-fu fighting in time-travel sequel
Louis Koo is the modern-day cop still trapped in the Qin dynasty in this cinematic reprise of the hit 2001 Hong Kong TV series
Hamnet review – Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley beguile and captivate in audacious Shakespearean tragedy
Chloé Zhao’s film version of Maggie O’Farrell’s myth-making novel powerfully reimagines the agonising loss of a child as the source of Hamlet’s grand stage drama
Dreams Travel With the Wind review – communing with the spirits to preserve Indigenous culture in Colombia
This intensely personal film follows Colombian director Inti Jacanamijoy’s grandfather to the ancestral lands of the Wayuu people
We Bury the Dead review – Daisy Ridley tackles the undead in solid zombie twist
Star Wars alum gives an impressively modest performance in this slightly smarter-than-average survival tale
Song Sung Blue review – Neil Diamond tribute act gets sweet treat of movie thanks to Jackman and Hudson
Film that follows a Milwaukee married couple as they rise to fame with a real-life band called Lightning and Thunder is undeniably entertaining
I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not review – abundant talent showcased in profile of SNL’s champion insult comic
Archive material shows Chase’s abilities but the times have changed around the self-aggrandising actor and comedian – and not always to his benefit
Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros review – Frederick Wiseman’s mammoth feast for the eyes
Over four hours, cinema-verite demigod Wiseman takes a gastronomic tour through the minutiae of running a triple-starred Michelin restaurant
No Time for Goodbye review – well intentioned drama about the loneliness of the asylum-seeker
Journalist Don Ng’s debut feature raises interesting questions about the asylum experience – but his film is too sentimental and superficial to truly answer them