A Desert review – high art meets trailer trash in Americana-aesthetics horror
A photographer’s road trip into the Californian desert takes an unexpected turn in director Joshua Erkman’s bewitching feature debut
Apple Cider Vinegar review – a kidney stone leads into whimsical geology doc
Sofie Benoot’s film opens out from the film-maker’s medical problem to a diverting reflection on humankind’s deep roots in ancient minerals
Fiume o Morte! review – darkly comic reconstruction of D’Annunzio’s Yugoslavian coup
Igor Bezinović uses local residents of what is now Rijeka in Croatia to re-stage the vainglorious Italian protofascist’s ragtag takeover of the Adriatic port city
Game review – Sleaford Mods’ Jason Williamson poaches a role in sceptical take on 90s rave culture
Williamson stars in a debut feature that feels more like an elongated music video than a fully realised drama, but it’s redeemed by some hilarious moments and strident imagery
Rule Breakers review – rousingly feelgood real life story of Afghan girls’ robotics team
This story of emancipated young women escaping draconian social strictures brims with enthusiasm and features a cameo from Phoebe Waller-Bridge
One Shot With Ed Sheeran review – well-planned spontaneity from all-smiling singer
Philip Barantini’s single-take special follows the star mooching around Manhattan, guitar ever ready for ad hoc turns, ahead of his evening show
John Cleese Packs It In review – former Python goes on the road in sickness and in health
Such is his grumpiness, it isn’t clear why the 85-year-old wanted to make the film – though ‘I need the money’ is a running gag
Nuremberg review – Russell Crowe is top notch as an on-trial Göring but Rami Malek lets side down
Crowe is wittily cast as the pompous Nazi in this tale from behind the scenes at the Nuremberg trials, but Malek is deeply silly as army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley
The Carpenter’s Son review – Nicolas Cage is predictably miscast in dull biblical horror
A grim, grave-faced look at Jesus realising he is in fact the son of God is a bafflingly acted and messily made bore
The Wild Geese review – Richard Burton and Roger Moore lead cast of amigos in preposterous African caper
Reactionary boy’s own adventure sends craggy gentlemen mercenaries Burton, Moore and Richard Harris into somewhat implausible action
Future Boy by Michael J Fox review – secrets from the set of a definitive 80s movie
The actor’s account of his big Hollywood break – and how it almost never happened
Come See Me in the Good Light review – frank, funny and inspiring documentary tackles cancer
The Sundance award-winner, now landing on Apple TV+, is a remarkably unvarnished look at a couple dealing with a devastating diagnosis
Keeper review – romance goes to hell in effectively eerie horror
Longlegs director Osgood Perkins takes us on a dark journey to the woods in a creepy and visually inventive nightmare with a killer lead performance
Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution review – spectacular if baffling anime is out to thrill and bewilder
Remix of old and new material from TV series includes tremendous battle sequences but there’s an awful lot of lore for new viewers to catch up with
Park Avenue review – Fiona Shaw is fearless in upmarket New York mother-daughter relationship drama
Having left her husband, Shaw’s daughter moves in with her at the Manhattan apartment she grew up in and soon tensions arise – wry, sweet, melancholic but somewhat insubstantial