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Riff Raff review – star-stuffed crime comedy with Bill Murray, Jennifer Coolidge and Ed Harris

Part gangster revenge, part family reunion, Murray’s semi-retired mobster is back in the murder business, while Coolidge gatecrashes ex-husband Harris’ New Year’s Eve

Better Days review – modest, honest study of woman trying to grapple with a drinking problem

Valérie Bonneton is terrific in French drama about women in rehab that gets a little carried away

Please Don’t Feed the Children review – Destry Spielberg debut splices 1970s exploitation with YA fairytale

A band of roving, feral orphans – asymptomatic carriers of a plague that turns adults into cannibals – regret accepting a stranger’s act of apparent kindness

All the Devils Are Here review – Eddie Marsan and Sam Claflin hole up in cottage-bound crime drama

In the aftermath of a large heist, Marsan’s gang of thieves battle mistrust and cabin fever as they make tracks for a remote Dartmoor homestead

Mission Alarum review – dreadful Sylvester Stallone spy thriller shames cinema itself

Donald Trump’s ‘special ambassador to Hollywood’ plays a grizzled agent in this dismal action movie

Dreamers review – powerful film about immigrant kids in the US, denied their chance of citizenship

Study of the fate of undocumented children brought to the US, now grown up and paying taxes, yet under constant threat of deportation and removal

A Night Like This review – two strangers roam the London nighttime on Christmas eve

A pair of men with their own individual demons spend the evening together, but a cliche-ridden script and uninspired filming remove the spark

Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback review – anime sleuth wades through a bamboozling bureaucratic maze

A labyrinthine but lively 28th instalment of the hit manga series juggles byzantine intrigue, spies and cop rivalries with stylish flair

Invention review – meta indie docu-fiction has a deadpan take on truth and healing

A woman inherits the patent for a healing machine from her quack father in this exploration of grief, in which a number of low budget film-makers cameo

Kangaroo review – furry family feature is hard to hate

Made by the director of Looking for Alibrandi and co-written by Melina Marchetta, this children’s film gets a little cheesy – but it’s also full of very cute joeys

Thunderbirds: Trapped in the Sky/Terror in New York City review – delightful fashion puppets are go

Double bill of the beloved 60s animations sees International Rescue coming to foil a supervillain and save some hapless journalists from disaster

Conviction: The Case of Lucy Letby review – documentary probes Britain’s most notorious baby killer

Channel 4’s film follows the fight to overturn Letby’s conviction, questioning expert testimony and exposing deep divisions over whether she is guilty or the victim of a miscarriage of justice

The Lost Bus review – Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera in dynamic real-life blaze-escape movie

McConaughey plays the unassuming real hero who drove a schoolbus full of children out of California’s deadliest wildfire

Swiped review – breezy drama gives dating apps the origins treatment

Lily James plays former Tinder employee who became founder of Bumble in an illuminating yet corny rise-to-fame tale

In Whose Name? review – Kanye’s descent makes for grimly compelling watch

More than 3,000 hours of footage filmed since 2018 by a teenager gets turned into a strange, revealing and unsettling look at a fallen star

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