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Australia 3D review – the world’s most majestic tourism ad

This Imax documentary features stunning landscapes and images of Australia’s varied fauna – that wouldn’t be out of place on the back of a plane seat

Him review – Jordan Peele-produced football horror is a disappointing fumble

Marlon Wayans hams it up as a quarterback looking to crown the new Goat in an unsubtle and increasingly meaningless critique of a broken system

Americana review – Sydney Sweeney heads cast in eminently watchable crime drama

Cowboys and Indigenous Americans tackle cultural appropriation and the legacy of the old west in a plot that revolves around a stolen Lakota artefact

Ackroyd & Harvey: The Art of Activism review – culture and politics collide in film of eco-artist double act

Portrait of the artists asks whether protest art can have a tangible, real-world impact

Ghost Trail review – pain and paranoia as a Syrian refugee attempts to track down his torturer

Jonathan Millet makes his fiction feature debut with an ambitious slow-burn thriller that opens up a complex world of pain

The Glassworker review – beautiful Ghibli-esque anti-war fable

Pakistani animator Usman Riaz’s dazzling debut owes much to Hayao Miyazaki, founder of Japan’s legendary studio, even if the magic and wonder falls a little short of his hero

One Battle After Another review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrillingly helter-skelter counterculture caper

Anderson updates Thomas Pynchon for the era of Ice roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reaction

The Boatyard review – skeezy cannibal horror picks off rich kids on a yacht ride to slaughter

Pointless and witless, this atrociously acted ripoff of The Hills Have Eyes should be cast back into the water

Happyend review – Orwellian Japanese high-school drama is brilliantly mysterious

Teen romance and paranoid surveillance collide to dysfunctional effect in Neo Sora’s beguiling debut future set in an oppressive near-future

Ebony & Ivory review – definitely not Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder in silly, surreal indie comedy

A pop icon and a musical legend meet on the Mull of Kintyre in 1981 and dress up as sheep in Jim Hosking’s daft, deadpan offering

Girls & Boys review – intense trans romance sparks fireworks in impressive debut

First feature from director Donncha Gilmore is propelled by charismatic and natural performances by leads Adam Lunnon-Collery and Liath Hannon

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey review – Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell play the game of love

Giddy romantic fantasy sends its two commitment-phobe leads on a magical road trip through their pasts that may lead them back to love

The Astronaut review – jump-scares and levitating eggs in a luxury location

In this slow-burn sci-fi, Kate Mara’s Nasa pilot crash lands back on Earth and is placed in a swanky safe house – but things soon start going bump in the night

Bad Man review – southern-fried script and idiosyncratic locals lift gun totin’ black comedy

Seann William Scott turns up to take over a small town murder, in this crime flick with a blokey, improv flavour

Can I Get a Witness? review – Sandra Oh leads the line in dystopian future fable of planned death

There’s real chemistry between Oh and Keira Jang as a mother and daughter living in a society where pastoral scenes hide a more brutal reality

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