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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

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight review – heartfelt child’s-eye view of last days of Rhodesia

Embeth Davidtz stars and directs, with outstanding performances from Zikhona Bali and seven-year-old Lexi Venter as Bobo as white minority rule ends

The Story of Skids: Scotland’s No 1 Punk Band review – likable look back to the noise era

Very much the story of singer Ricard Jobson, this amiable portrait takes in tales of Sid Vicious and the pop culture hysteria when the genre exploded

Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror review – musical mash-up tries for new approach

This new approach to silent cinema is like trying to watch a movie while your next-door neighbour has their music on too loud

13 Going on 30: The Musical review – Jennifer Garner romcom returns with goofy charm

The stage version of the 2004 film has bright choreography and a likeable lead performance by Lucie Jones, even if the songs are a bit underpowered

The Threesome review – sexy romcom deals with unexpected complications of a throupling

Plausible twists, engaging characters and a charismatic cast make three the magic number in this impeccably calibrated comedy

Play Dirty review – Shane Black’s action comedy comeback is a blast

The writer-director returns to the genre he knows best with a breezy winner led by Mark Wahlberg and a standout LaKeith Stanfield

The Partisan review – the thrilling escapades of Churchill’s favourite spy

Morgane Polanski is intense and seductive as Polish agent Krystyna Skarbek, in an uneven drama about her missions across Nazi occupied Europe

Mr Blake at Your Service review – John Malkovich does worst French accent ever in baffling comedy misfire

Gilles Legardinier’s broad dramedy set in a chateau, co-starring Fanny Ardant and Émilie Dequenne, is an ordeal to watch. Sacré bleu!

The Kitchen Brigade review – heartfelt French cooking comedy shows migrants the ropes

A bunch of young immigrants are taught the the power of kitchen discipline by a white-saviour chef – but it’s a bit past its sell-by date

The Drowned review – atmospheric horror of art thieves holed up on the sea shore is an off-kilter bad dream

Following an art heist, three men arrive at a remote safe house, only to discover that their female accomplice is missing

The Severed Sun review – folk-horror nightmare that harks back to The Crucible

A widow with an ungodly secret challenges the patriarchal abuse of an oppressive religious community in Dean Puckett’s English chiller

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere review – solid biopic both embraces and avoids cliche

Jeremy Allen White is a convincingly tortured rock star in this smartly narrow and specific look at a particular chapter of music history

Last and First Men review – sci-fi dance can’t match Tilda Swinton’s cool apocalypse

Composer Jóhann Jóhannson’s moody film, narrated by Swinton and inspired by a classic novel, gains little from a live dance interpretation

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