Phantoms of July review – interlocking tales hop across time in funny-quirky fable with a point

From a disgruntled maid in the 18th century to an Iranian influencer facing snide nationalists, four stories explore what it is to be trapped and longing for more

Turangalîla: Infinite Love review – RPO and 1927 Studios bring Messiaen to joyous and vibrant life

Part of the Southbank’s Multitudes festival, this pairing of silent movie and Messiaen was a feast for the eyes and ears

The Lion King review – Disney’s Broadway juggernaut roars to life in Sydney

With breathtaking aesthetics and joyous performances, the audacious adaptation – now almost 30 years old – is greater than the sum of its parts

Apex review – Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton cat-and-mouse game is slick but soulless

This empty-calorie Netflix flick, about a steely woman being hunted by a scary local in the Australian wilderness, is shot like a Mountain Dew commercial

Double Indemnity review – leaden drama turns crime classic into a very cold case

James M Cain’s hard-bitten novella gained bleak power on screen but this version, giving Mischa Barton her UK stage debut, loses its flinty edge

Alphabet Lane review – tree-change couple invent fake neighbours in this unsettling drama

James Litchfield’s dark, well-paced film about an isolated pair’s imaginary friend, blends genres and emotional registers

Isaac Julien review – Gwendoline Christie meets a cyborg starfish in a pleasure-seeker’s postmodern parlour

The video artist famous for his films charged with Black queer desire unleashes a kitsch, bombastic and rather glorious meditation on human connection

Agon review – ice-cold, machine-tooled inspection of the dark side of athletic perfection

Three sportswomen undergo the various ordeals of competition in a spare, sometimes harrowing drama suffused with a chilly vérité detachedness

Exit 8 review – Escher-esque subway station corridor leads to disquieting psychological mystery

A commuter’s entrapment in an Escher-esque subway station provides a taut, unnerving and rare example of an adaptation that holds close to the video game on which it is based

The Last Spy review – former CIA station chief tells it like it was from inside the tent

Peter Sichel gives a scrupulous and sometimes salacious insider’s view of the secret service and Washington circles in Katharina Otto-Bernstein’s documentary

Surviving Earth review – bruising portrait of addiction and redemption

Thea Gajić’s debut is an assured, intelligent drama of a father’s endless quest for contentment outside his heroin dependency

David Bowie: You’re Not Alone review – Ziggy glam and Berlin grime in a bum-shaking yet sanitised immersion

This hour-long, 360-degree film may skip over some chapters of Bowie’s career, but what is here is irresistible – and thrillingly huge

Michael review – cliched Jackson biopic is bland, bowdlerised … and bad

Rammed with every music-movie cliche, an almost mute supporting cast and a Michael who only produces endless smiley blandness, this is a frustratingly shallow film

Ultras review – love letter to football’s most dedicated supporters

Ragnhild Ekner’s documentary weaves together breathtaking collective displays around the world, but soft-pedals its less photogenic aspects

Wardriver review – bank scammer Dane DeHaan goes for the triple cross in venal neo-noir

Thriller from director Rebecca Thomas paints a convincingly hoodlum world where every table is turned