Legend of the White Dragon review – Power Rangers alumni back for more in low-budget superhero retread

Simple but emphatic martial arts and a couple of classy cameos are all that give this blandly modern action film a fighting chance

Letter to Brezhnev review – terrific return for Merseysiders’ romance with Russian sailors

Ellie Clayton and Angela Simms are superb in a funny, passionate yet still tender adaptation that hugs close to the 1985 film

Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? review – Jarvis Cocker’s wit and warmth upstage the hits

Wonderful archive footage charts the Sheffield outsiders’ unlikely rise, but the distant camerawork struggles to capture the thrill of their triumphant O2 gigs

Best of the Best review – college comedy formula gets a Bollywood makeover

What’s engaging in this tale of two best girl friends and a dance competition is not the familiar plot but the whip-fast telling and brilliant choreograpy

Queen at Sea review – crushingly sad dementia drama offers a startling portrait of intimacy

Driven by fine performances from Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall, Lance Hammer’s comeback is unbearable in its tragic candour and essential in its moral questioning

50 Years of Punk review – rock’n’roll rebels fondly recall the filth and fury a half-century on

Glen Matlock, Viv Albertine and Rat Scabies revisit the music, clothes and disgusting spitting in a likable documentary marking half a century of British punk

Thelma & Louise review – musical hoedown is a bland and baffling wrong turn

Despite a book by the original screenwriter, this stage adaptation doesn’t have the depth – or the songs – worthy of the era-defining feminist parable. And where’s the car?

De Gaulle: Liberté review – biopic of conquering French war hero reaches his imperial era

A shrewd performance by Simon Abkarian leads this blockbuster account of the wartime leader’s career as he ascends to political dominance

Bad Apples review – Saoirse Ronan’s suffering teacher best thing about school horror-satire

Ronan plays a teacher who finds a way to deal with a disruptive pupil in Jonatan Etzler’s implausible satire, but it’s not shocking or funny enough

The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream review – political scandal, 70s style

Shane O’Sullivan’s documentary weaves archive clips and snippets from films old and new to draw out the highlights of the crisis that rocked the US

The Liberation review – Carrie Coon joins all-female cult in unsettling drama

Director Guy Nattiv draws on personal experience for an 80s-set tale of a woman abandoning her family for a creepy commune

Resident Evil review – Zach Cregger’s rebooted action horror is a wild rollercoaster ride

The Weapons director delivers a seat-edge thriller with a standout lead performance from Austin Abrams as an everyman navigating chaos

Smile at Last review – photo-love-story style parable of a teen abandoned at a tough Soviet youth facility

With handheld camerawork, this unsentimental rite of passage film follows Mari, who tries to escape from a residential home in Estonia

In-I in Motion review – Juliette Binoche pulls back the curtain on dance duet with Akram Khan

The actor makes her directing debut with a raw, fascinating film about her 2008 collaboration with the British dancer

Whisper of the Heart review – Studio Ghibli deep cut is pep talk on how to live the artistic life

Hayao Miyazaki-scripted 90s teen romance sees an aspiring writer drawn to a potential soulmate thanks to library books and a curmudgeonly cat