Familiar Touch review – Kathleen Chalfant is wonderful in subtle, sensual memory loss drama

Director Sarah Friedland brings impressive attention to detail to an audacious debut feature about a woman moved into a retirement community

Angel’s Egg review – Mamoru Oshii’s dazzling 1985 anime is an eerie philosophical adventure

Christian theology becomes an unsettling and visually ravishing mystery in early film from the Ghost in the Shell director

Dry Leaf review – three-hour amble around the football pitches of Georgia in search of a daughter

Despite its interesting low-res look, Alexandre Koberidze’s mystifying film is needlessly contrived

Stop! That! Train! review – RuPaul-led zany drag comedy is a riot

With a whip-smart drag queen cast and celebrity cameos, Adam Shankman’s film is a refreshingly kooky twist on the summer movie caper

Strictly Ballroom review – Baz Luhrmann’s dizzying, dance-tastic swirl of fun is a classic ugly-duckling tale

Luhrmann’s goofy and lovable film is reissued for generations who don’t know where TV’s Strictly Come Dancing got part of its name

How to Talk Australians: The Movie review – viral web series lampooning Aussie culture gets big-screen adaptation

The popular satire’s humour resonates with an uncomfortable ring of truth

Under the Shadow review – Leila Farzad is fantastic in this nerve-shredding tale of 80s Tehran

Carmen Nasr’s adaptation of the film set during the Iran-Iraq war is searing enough to feel like a 2026 livestream

Boogie Nights review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s porn epic is still gaudy, seedy fun

The writer-director’s second movie lacks some of the craft shown in his later work, but remains a stylish and energetic descent into the cocaine-fulled world of the 70s adult film industry

Disclosure Day review – close encounters of a deferred kind in Spielberg’s conspiracy spectacular

Humans have been secretly abusing aliens for almost 80 years in this big-hearted thriller starring Josh O’Connor as a worried whistleblower and a never-more-magnetic Emily Blunt as a weather forecaster channelling UFO chat

Signal One review – Dennis Quaid and David Thewlis ballast high-concept, low-risk first contact yarn

Sci-fi about the inventor of a device to communicate with aliens, in which scientists spend too much time talking astrophysics at each other

Pink Narcissus review – garish colour and dreamlike images in a homoerotic vision of 60s New York

James Bidgood’s experimental DIY movie, first released in 1971, starred Bobby Kendall and was shot mostly in Bidgood’s own apartment

A Murder Between Friends review – Joan Collins’s detective diva sparkles in trashy whodunnit

Hot tubs and high camp as a TV star dripping in rhinestones tries to solve a real-life crime in this fabulously flawed murder mystery. Who cares who did it

Time and Water review – Iceland’s doomed glacier tells its own story of climate disaster

This study of author Andri Snær Magnason is somewhat indulgent, with endless musings where piercing climate crisis commentary should be

Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway review – motorbike whodunnit cranked up to top speed

The half-pint sleuth investigates another mystery with the franchise’s usual gorgeous cityscapes, sharply sketched characters and general brio

My Memory Is Full of Ghosts review – deeply moving visual hymn for the bombed-out Syrian city of Homs

Anas Zawahri’s documentary lays heart-wrenching testimony over languorous shots of bullet-ridden ruins and deserted streets