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The Lost Children of Tuam review – deeply serious retelling of Ireland’s devastating tragedy

Monica Dolan is superb as the amateur historian who uncovered the horror of mass graves at a mother and baby home in this Liam Neeson produced drama

Club Kid review – Jordan Firstman’s heartfelt comedy is irresistible

The actor impresses with a directorial debut about a club rat who discovers he is father to a 10-year-old boy

Comédie Française review – pre-show bedlam plays theatrical chaos for laughs

French farce set in the tumultuous three hours prior to the opening night performance of Macbeth features comic-timing perfection from cast

The Yellow Tie review – John Malkovich gives major hauteur as legendary record-hating maestro

This biopic of Sergiu Celibidache, the renowned Romanian conductor who refused all recordings, is a sturdy labour of love directed by his son

Karl review – straightforward tribute tells inside story of fashion world’s great eccentric Karl Lagerfeld

Based on Lagerfeld’s biography, director Nick Hooker gets access to the designer’s inner circle, but ultimately fails to find the man behind the high collar and sunglasses

Charlie Shaw’s Revenge review – creepy clown killer takes aim at struggling amusement park

Decent effects and a late-stage twist show promise, but this gore-fest needs to be more disgusting, funny or unnerving

Wakaliga Uganda review – a blistering superhero movie with hardboiled cops and a nefarious ‘girl with a voluminous bum’

A young man possessed by the spirit of a mythical Buganda warrior leads the film-making collective’s explosive new diatribe against the theft of cultural artefacts – with the help of a ‘video joker’

A Statement review – outstanding climate change dramedy about a 1980 meeting

Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti and Tatiana Maslany lead an excellent ensemble in this dramatization of a failed 1980 conference on climate change

From Digger to The Strokes: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Tom Cruise transforms in Alejandro Iñárritu’s heavyweight satirical comedy, while the NYC indie rockers are in the UK for an arena tour

Behemoth! review – Pedro Pascal classical music drama hits all the wrong notes

The actor stumbles through Tony Gilroy’s forgettable film marred by stylistic gimmicks

Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s sumptuous recording is an immediate classic

The Geese frontman mesmerizes in a concert film that is both swoony and austere

Take It Or Leave It review – vividly atmospheric formative adventures of future pop princes Madness

Docufictional 1981 comedy captures the working-class ska-pop pranksters in their hungry years with an almost Loachian authenticity

You Can See Everything review – Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes doc is a modern masterpiece of deceit

No spoilers here – TV’s grand illusionist meets his match when he moves in with Theranos founder and her family

The Last First: Winter K2 review – race up second highest mountain reveals fatal cost of human ambition

Amir Bar-Lev’s doc covering competing climbers trying to achieve something that has not been done before uncovers a fascinating tapestry of aspiration and folly

Derek vs Derek review – farmers go head to head in rewilding rivalry with real bite

Two Devon neighbours face off over the future of the countryside in this warm, wry documentary about farming, conservation and some troublesome wild boar

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