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Odyssey review – estate agents, cocaine and mental collapse in a jagged London thriller

Polly Maberly is riveting as a deluded realtor spiralling out of control in director Gerard Johnson’s messy, blackly comic follow-up to Muscle

Belén review – gripping true story of woman unjustly accused of illegal abortion

In Argentina a lawyer fights to free a working-class woman jailed after the miscarriage of her baby in this heartfelt retelling

Predator: Badlands review – a pointless but unkillable franchise that has started to eat itself

The toothy villain is humanised and made sympathetic in this disappointing horror sci-fi – at which point it ceases to be the Predator

The Lost Boys of Mercury review – heartbreaking film on the enduring wounds of church-school abuse

Clémence Davigo’s uncompromising film gives voice to three survivors of a French correctional school, and the difficult path towards healing

There Was, There Was Not review – how four women’s dreams are destroyed by the shock of war

Emily Mkrtichian’s feature debut was shot in the now defunct republic of Artsakh, a tender, intimate meditation on the impermanence of life

Fantaisie review – study of a modern Ophelia swamped by audiovisual overwhelm

Isabel Pagliai’s film introduces her central character Louise with a thrillingly eclectic blend of handheld footage and cascades of still images

The Run review – glowsticks to the fore as interactive horror-thriller aims to get pulses racing

Audience members vote on the path its jogger heroine should take through this Italian-set chase movie – with appearances from genre cinema heroes Franco Nero and Dario Argento

A Mother’s Embrace review – woozy serving of trauma horror as a firefighter reckons with a troubled past

Low-key but well-designed Brazil-set chiller, which starts with a mysterious emergency call from a nightmarishly mouldering care home

Don’t Trip review – lo-fi comedy shocker sets out to find the horror in Hollywood

What starts as a compelling satire of the film industry turns into an unconvincing schlocky mess that even Fred Melamed can’t save

3 Cold Dishes review – Burna Boy produces deftly directed revenge tales with echoes of Kill Bill

Asurf Oluseyi’s thriller threads a trio of stories together with Tarantinoesque swagger but choppy storytelling

Winter in Sokcho review – atmospheric slow-burner about family and intimacy in South Korean border city

Koya Kamura’s debut film is about shared identities at the centre of quiet, chilly drama as an enigmatic French writer visits the eponymous town

Deeper review – extreme cave diving documentary offers drama but lacks a little oomph

Following a group of divers – including Richard Harris, rescuer of the Thai schoolboys – this doco is interesting but not exactly visually stunning

Relay review – Riz Ahmed turns potential whistleblowers in smart and twisty surveillance thriller

With a great script from Justin Piasecki this David Mackenzie-directed movie is pleasingly old fashioned, complete with Hitchcockian set piece

Boston Kickout review – John Simm and Andrew Lincoln among 90s teens tearing around Stevenage

Some now famous faces – Lincoln, Simm, Marc Warren – bring plenty of youthful zing to this tale of teenage life in new-town Hertfordshire

Facing War review – cool customer of a Nato secretary general marshals world on the brink

Gripping documentary follows Jens Stoltenberg through his final year as Nato chief – balancing diplomacy, egos and all-out war with unnerving calm

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