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Tron: Ares review – even Gillian Anderson can’t slap this mind-bendingly dull sci-fi into shape

Pointless threequel delivers a leaden cameo from a white-robed Jeff Bridges and an irritating turn from Jared Leto as a hipster-haired humanoid

Night of the Zoopocalypse review – Clive Barker story becomes zombified animal caper for horror-hungry kids

Perhaps the first animated animal adventure based on a story by Hellraiser writer Barker, with commendably scary baddies and a lemur who is a horror-movie buff

Under the Open Sky review – camels and turbines in absorbing portrait of a threatened way of life

Intimate, unhurried documentary follows a family of nomadic herders on the plains of western India

The Burden review – deeply personal portrait of living with Aids in secret

Elvis Sabin Ngaibino’s poignant documentary shows the pressures faced by family members forced to keep their condition hidden in their deeply religious community

Plainclothes review – shame and anxiety in entrapment yarn about a gay cop going undercover

A quietly observed New York police story explores desire, friendship and the pressures of identity – though its impact is undercut by an implausible final twist

London Calling review – Tarantino-esque caper in which a hitman takes a kid on work experience

A washed-up killer-for-hire is charged with making callow gamer Jeremy Ray Taylor into a killer like his dad, but much of the humour fails to land

A Tooth Fairy Tale review – animated adventure with a sprinkling of family-friendly tween romance

A child-suitable romantic subplot underpins this enjoyable story of fairies putting their long-standing differences with goblins aside to defeat a common enemy

Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird review – Mars Volta bromance looks for time out

Exhaustive documentary tracking the sweet fraternity between Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala goes a little sour

Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl review – lazy big screen cash-in

The megastar’s underwhelming new album gets a suitably sub-par cinematic accompaniment offering very little for even the most devoted of fans

Shell review – Elisabeth Moss gets Substance-d by Kate Hudson in schlocky curio

Max Minghella directs an incredibly silly yet frustratingly un-fun LA-set horror about an actor trying to look beautiful

Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror review – insiders’ account of cult musical 50 years on

Stars including Richard O’Brien, Susan Sarandon and Tim Curry line up to recount the endearing origin story of the perennial crowdpleaser

Good Boy review – crafty supernatural horror leads with a heroic dog

A lovable pet is unlikely protagonist of 73-minute haunted house riff that has ingenious moments but gets repetitive

GoldenEye review – Pierce Brosnan’s ‘sexist, misogynist dinosaur’ makes his Bond movie debut

The 1995 spy adventure introduced Brosnan as 007 and Judi Dench as M – blending high-octane action with a cheeky post-Soviet self-awareness

The Curse of Frankenstein review – Hammer horror with Lee and Cushing shows how it should be done

Terence Fisher’s crisply told 1957 classic is unencumbered with good taste and delivered with absolute conviction

The Shadow’s Edge review – Jackie Chan as watchable as ever as fisticuff-prone cop-turned-dog-walker

This bloated cops-and-robbers thriller is overlong and unnecessarily complex but thankfully Chan is never more than 10 minutes from a fight or a shootout

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