Erupcja review – Charli xcx gives acting a trial run in shallow friendship drama
The star fails to make much of an impression in a slight and unpolished project filmed in Warsaw over the Brat summer of 2024
The Voice of Hind Rajab review – provocative docufiction is fierce, urgent and heart-shattering
In an audacious move, director Kaouther Ben Hania reconstructs the killing of the five-year-old in Gaza using her real voice as she is bombarded by the Israeli army
Jumanji review – startling 90s game fantasy adventure with Robin Williams in winning form
Williams is exuberant but controlled as elephants trample the town and a waterfall crashes down the stairs in bizarre fantasy that still holds up
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale review – this silly, enjoyable nonsense should go on for ever
News of Lady Mary’s divorce is presented with impeccable seriousness in a watchable outing that shouldn’t be the last
The Conjuring: Last Rites review – 1980s-set paranormal horror proves stubbornly resistant to change
The franchise exits stage right with this final go around, in which our middle-aged exorcists take their time getting to the jump-cuts
On Swift Horses review – Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar-Jones simmer in glossy drama of sex and identity
Things are not as hetero as they appear in this handsome melodrama framing the postwar period as one of searching for meaning beyond the picket fence
The Courageous review – rebellious mum on the edge will have you sobbing in sympathy
Call My Agent!’s Ophélia Kolb leads a Swiss drama with morally ambiguous realism reminiscent of the Dardenne brothers
Dead Man’s Wire review – Gus Van Sant calls the shots with surreal true-crime thriller
Al Pacino, Colman Domingo and Myha’la excel in this gripping take on the events of 1977 when an Indianapolis businessman held his mortgage broker hostage
A House of Dynamite review – Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white-knuckle comeback
Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Tracy Letts star in this immaculately constructed nightmare procedural that ticks down the minutes from an atomic bomb’s launch to its detonation
Portobello review – Marco Bellocchio’s glorious saga of TV stars, mafia prisoners and lace doilies
In the first two episodes of a six-part series, the stardom of 80s primetime host Enzo Tortora is cleverly crosscut with the scramble of a mob secretary who implicates him – and his parrot – in drug trafficking
Row review – impressive, largely unknown cast keep seagoing horror afloat
A woman washes up on the Orkney island of Hoy, the only survivor of a transatlantic sortie in Matthew Losasso’s debut feature, a twisty if murky chiller
Straight Circle review – boisterous border guard satire from a director to watch
Oscar Hudson’s feature debut, starring twins Elliott and Luke Tittensor as ritual-performing representatives of fictional warring nations, is an absurdist nightmare
Above the Knee review – man struggles with body integrity dysmorphia in gory amputation horror
A man grapples with an overwhelming desire to remove his leg in a lingering psychological interrogation from Norwegian film-maker Viljar Bøe
Sanatorium review – Ukraine health resort guests seek sanctuary amid shelling
Poignant documentary by Irish director Gar O’Rourke peers into a faded Soviet-era institution where visitors search for relief while war grinds on outside
Borderline review – Raymond Nicholson shines as a deranged fan in comedy thriller
It’s the 1990s and a famous pop star is taken hostage by a fan in Jimmy Warden’s stylish but confused film, loosely inspired by a real-life stalker case involving Madonna