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Extra Geography review – a wickedly funny lesson in sex, class and female friendship

A boarding-school escapade becomes a wonderfully acted coming-of-age comedy, as two best friends find their world threatened by desire and adulthood

Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie review – terrifying and inspiring story of survival

Alex Gibney’s documentary follows the celebrated author’s life up to and after the attack, but what shines through is Rushdie’s remarkable courage

Verity review – erotic thriller leaves teethmarks as Dakota Johnson goes back to Fifty Shades territory

Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett co-star in this unconvincing mystery about a struggling writer who is asked to ghostwrite for a bestselling author

Cotton Queen review – mystery, matriarchs and magic in pioneering Sudanese debut

Suzannah Mirghani’s first feature contains a powerful performance by Rabha Mohamed Mahmoud as a village’s elder woman and tackles the long shadow of British imperialism and women’s rights

Rapture review – cult Spanish horror is a deeply strange cheese dream of cinemania

Pedro Almodóvar provides a vocal cameo and his style can be traced back to this influential film

How Deep Is Your Love review – under the sea at Earth’s last frontier with the Psychedelic Elvis Worm

Film-maker Eleanor Mortimer accompanies a scientific expedition to the deep Pacific, where new creatures are abundant yet threatened by sea mining

SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future

Swedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI

Digger review – Tom Cruise’s loudmouth oil tycoon goes hard in Alejandro G Iñárritu’s eco-satire

One man’s irresponsible drilling causes a global crisis in Iñárritu’s exasperatingly laborious, self-congratulatory film

Child review – jump scares abound in twisty organ transplant fable that keeps horror at its heart

This Luxembourg-made movie about a couple who venture east to save their son features some impressive film-making

The Portuguese House review – picturesque, polite drama of secrets and revelations at a country estate

Spanish drama about people leaving their old lives behind plays out like a literary novel, with Manolo Solo excellent as a discombobulated gardener

April X review – Connor Storrie searches for missing twin in dystopian dream-tech sci-fi thriller

The star of Heated Rivalry does his best in this in this human-trafficking yarn, which gets progressively ickier and more exploitative

Pandora’s Legacy review – fascinating profile of silent film legend GW Pabst

Through intimate letters and family interviews, this probing documentary about the Austrian film-maker reveals a complicated figure

Crushed review – Steve Oram is priestly lead in harrowing Bangkok-set child-abduction thriller

A priest investigates his daughter’s kidnapping in Thailand in this Paul Schrader-esque inquiry into spiritual nihilism

Just Play Dead review – Samuel L Jackson and Eva Green punch up switchback crime caper

Jackson and Green just about manage to distract viewers from the sub-par Tarantinoesque flourishes, confusing plot points and tired stereotypes

Kikuyu Land review – the colonial-era misery behind our morning cup of tea

The impact of colonial then corporate agricultural development is unravelled in a sobering documentary that takes a dramatic turn when a family secret is discovered

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