The Twits review – Americanised Roald Dahl is gruesome in all the wrong ways

Netflix’s animation mangles and sentimentalises Dahl’s black comedy about a gross and detestable married couple – relocating the action to Texas and introducing a plucky orphan heroine

Sunlight review – monkey-suited woman goes on road trip in Nina Conti’s super-quirky directing debut

There are plenty of laughs and a fair bit of trauma to process when a depressed man takes a monkey woman across country

The Secret of Me review – documentary tells tragic story of childhood intersex reassignment surgery

Grace Hughes-Hallett’s film focuses on the story of Jim Ambrose, who was raised female after he was born with atypical genitals

Our Fault review – ultra-glossy Spanish step-sibling melodrama is too bland to be annoying

Third film adapted from the romance novels by Mercedes Ron, originally written in Spanish, feels clunky and cliched

H is for Hawk review – Claire Foy is tremendously authentic in eccentric grief drama

Foy convinces as a grieving academic who trains a goshawk in this film based on Helen Macdonald’s bestselling nature memoir

Souleymane’s Story review – superb performance ballasts drama of man clinging on in the margins in Paris

Abou Sangaré is magnificent in a story that shines light on the enforced invisibility of economic migrants

Cutting Through Rocks review – the female firebrand fighting the patriarchy in rural Iran

Sara Shahverdi refuses to accept the norms of her deeply conservative village as she becomes its first female councillor. But for every step forward, as this dynamic documentary shows, a further obstacle is thrown in her path

Tomorrow I Leave review – poignant portrait of a care worker sacrificing her home life for her work

The paradoxical emotional push and pull of those forced to migrate for work is vividly captured in Maria Lisa Pichler and Lukas Schöffel’s intimate portrait

Is This Thing On? review – Bradley Cooper’s comedy of comedians is a charmer

The actor’s third film as director is a gentle romcom of divorce and standup comedy with standout turns from Will Arnett and Laura Dern

Moss and Freud review – Kate meets Lucian and they get on brilliantly with absolutely no funny business at all

London film festival: The supermodel comes across as a dippy trustafarian and the artist like her soppy old grandpa in this bland, legacy-protecting depiction of their friendship

Operation Pope review – hard-bitten thriller about a true-life papal assassination plot

Audiences will obviously be aware the secret plan to kill John Paul II did not succeed, but despite a baggy narrative the high-stakes espionage is still compelling

John Candy: I Like Me review – starry but treacly tribute to comedy legend

The much loved actor has no shortage of celebrity fans, but this documentary avoids his more complex traits in favour of his sweet-natured on-screen person

Forgive Us All review – a dead-boring zombie film? That’s unforgivable

Handsome cinematography and New Zealand landscapes can’t revive this dreary movie – and where on earth is Richard Roxburgh’s accent from?

The Woman in Cabin 10 review – silliness of Keira Knightley megayacht thriller tips it overboard

Keira Knightley is twice dunked in the briny as she tries to uncover what’s going on aboard Guy Pearce’s boat in this soggy Agatha-Christie-ish mystery

The Good Boy review – Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough turn nasty in Kubrickian absurdist nightmare

Jan Komasa’s bracingly wicked tale follows a couple who plan to retrain an delinquent teen with a brutal regimen