The Smashing Machine review – Dwayne Johnson only possible casting as crisis-riddled UFC champ Mark Kerr
Former pro wrestler Johnson takes on the role of man-mountain Kerr who goes into meltdown when the unthinkable happens – he loses
The Testament of Ann Lee review – strikingly strange portrait of radically ecstatic Shaker leader
Amanda Seyfried plays the 18th-century missionary who took her radical message to the New World, in Mona Fastvold’s elusive film
Kim Novak’s Vertigo review – the dizzying demands on Hitchcock’s leading lady
An intensely personal interview of the 92-year-old Hollywood star delivers showstopping moments for fans of the golden age of movies
Signs of Life review – no holiday from raw grief in downbeat Lanzarote-set drama
Sarah-Jane Potts speaks volumes without saying a word as a bereaved, selectively mute woman travelling alone who meets a talkative Irishman
Afternoons of Solitude review – toe-to-toe with the bravado of bullfighting
Albert Serra’s riveting documentary follows star matador Andrés Roca Rey as he confronts the raw force of nature – but it’s a tough watch for animal lovers
Anhell69 review – an impassioned eulogy for Colombia’s queer renegades
Theo Montoya collages an unfinished phantom horror film, gothic Medellín cityscapes and interviews with lost friends into a transgressive work of cine-protest
Somnium review – dream-injection sci-fi plot follows in dodgy-clinic tracks of The Substance
Racheal Cain’s debut feature feels derivative, with plotlines that are forced together and cartoonish reductions that sell its characters short
My Tennis Maestro review – unforced errors keep Italian coming-of-age comedy from grand slam
Pierfrancesco Favino is a robust lead as a teenage tennis hopeful’s charming yet flawed new coach in a film that’s too long and too indecisive to stand up to recent big hitters
Father Mother Sister Brother review – Blanchett and Rampling pick at family guilt in Jarmusch’s delectable triptych
Jim Jarmusch explores the awkwardness, guilt and the closeness of parents with their grownup children in three slyly comic panels of drama set in the US, Dublin and Paris
The Wizard of the Kremlin review – Jude Law is Putin in adaptation of Kremlin spin doctor bestseller
The rise of Vladimir Putin, chillingly played by Law, is portrayed through the eyes of a wily insider, but Paul Dano’s protagonist cuts a one-note figure
Broken English review – Marianne Faithfull’s last glow, as she recounts past lives
The charismatic Faithfull is quizzed by a fictional ministry fronted by Tilda Swinton about a confounding career, from 60s It girl to art scene doyenne
Frankenstein review – Guillermo del Toro reanimates a classic as a monstrously beautiful melodrama
Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi star as the freethinking anatomist and his creature as Mary Shelley’s story is reimagined with bombast in the director’s unmistakable visual style
Pompei: Below the Clouds review – a ghostly yet luminous cinematic mosaic of Naples crowns a superb trio
There is a real end-of-days quality to Gianfranco Rosi’s utterly distinctive documentary of war, violence, cynicism and the climate crisis in an uneasy city
Late Fame review – Willem Dafoe is a natural poet in a slice-of-life New York fable
A postman’s forgotten poetry collection finds new admirers in a tale of how the mystique of the past filters to the present
Rose of Nevada review – uncanny ghost ship story from one-of-a-kind Cornish auteur
A vanished trawler returns in Mark Jenkin’s time-slipping film, an enigmatic drama steeped in loss, memory and the unsettling rhythms of coastal life