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Fukushima review – a devastating account of disaster and denial in 2011 nuclear catastrophe

A tense return to the disaster foregrounds the heroism of the ‘Fukushima 50’ while raising questions about corporate secrecy and nuclear safety

Scare Out review – Zhang Yimou’s twisty spy thriller offers eye-popping stunts and future tech

Chinese master director Zhang’s latest is more style over substance as spies hunt a mole providing the West with intelligence

Redux Redux review – multiverse hopping child-abduction thriller keeps things simple

The McManus brothers offer a stylish new spin on the time loop genre in this tale of a woman trying to stop the abduction and murder of her daughter

Night King review – Hong Kong hostess bar comedy is love letter to old-style Kowloon nightlife

Dayo Wong and pop star Sammi Cheng star in strangely coy comedy which has glitzy charms and jokes but lacks raw chemistry

Dear Beautiful Beloved review – a powerful message from the Ukrainian frontline

Film-maker Juri Rechinsky documents moments of kindness and compassion among the death and grief that surrounds evacuation and forensics teams

My Sister’s Bones review – drab adaptation doesn’t deliver the dark punch of the bestselling novel

Despite the best efforts of the fine cast this psychological thriller about a war correspondent returning to her home town falls short of exploring the full scope of family trauma

The Blood Countess review – Isabelle Huppert reigns supreme in a surreal vampire fantasia

Vienna turns into a playground of camp, cruelty and aristocratic disdain in a blackly comic take on the Báthory legend – with Huppert gloriously suited to the title role

At the Sea review – Amy Adams plays it overly straight in insufferable upper-middle-class drama

Shame, healing and personal growth are the order of the day in this humourless, self-adoring and vapid exploration of an artistic and narcissistic Cape Cod family

O’Romeo review – Bollywood Shakespeare takes dive into grisly mafia queens territory

After hit takes on Macbeth, Othello and Hamlet, Vishal Bhardwaj’s Romeo and Juliet adaptation sees dead-eyed lovers drag one another to gutter and grave

Bare Skin review – floridly wordy group therapy horror is propelled by trauma stories

Mico Montes’s perplexing horror portmanteau relies more on atmosphere than its actors for effect

Rose review – Sandra Hüller is outstanding in grimy examination of gender stereotypes

Austrian director Markus Schleinzer’s captivating film follows a woman passing herself off a man in 17th-century rural Germany

Lupin the IIIrd the Movie: The Immortal Bloodline review – eye-popping fan-service in latest in anime franchise

Takeshi Koike’s latest take on Monkey Punch’s vintage manga thief is beautifully animated, but the gossamer-thin plot and characterisation mean it’s one for superfans only

Collective Monologue review – sensuous zoo study foregrounds contacts between keepers and creatures

Jessica Sarah Rinland’s documentary examines how humans and animals interact in the confines of captivity, but leaves some questions unexplored

Gangsterism review – dense, high-minded cine-manifesto on the notion of auteurism

Canadian experimentalist Isiah Medina’s latest flits between radical and grandiloquent, but deserves close reading and exasperated sighs in equal measure

Rosebush Pruning review – dysfunctional rich family move in strange circles

Jamie Bell and Elle Fanning lead a starry cast in this clumsy satire that provides little fascination in a wealthy family’s suffocating lives

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