Listy do M 6 (Letters to Santa 6) review – pick ’n’ mix Christmas tales coast on a sugar high

While director Łukasz Jaworski gets spirited performances across the board in the sixth instalment of the hit Polish franchise, it leans heavily on familiarity with the characters

Gladiator II takes $87m to break Ridley Scott opening box-office record

Long-awaited sequel performs strongly in UK and France, although behind February blockbuster Dune: Part Two

C’est Pas Moi review – Holy Motors director Leos Carax pays witty homage to himself

You might need to be a fan of Carax’s oeuvre to enjoy this act of indulgence but this short autobiography is full of his grandiose whimsy and personal melancholy

‘Makes my heart beat faster’: why I Know Where I’m Going! is my feelgood movie

In the first of a new series in which writers explain their favourite mood-lifting watch, an ode to a charming 40s romance

Don’t Let Them Shoot the Kite review – Turkish kid-in-prison tale is touching and urgent

This gentle but energised piece of work has a rather amazing performance from its five-year-old star at its emotional core

The Bilbaos review – soulful study of a tough guy boxer dealing with emotional baggage

Pedro Speroni’s documentary follows Iván Bilbao’s return from prison to a family full of troubles and tenderness

TV tonight: Emily Watson stars in the blockbuster Dune prequel

Ten thousand years before Timothée Chalamet arrived, the action of Dune: Prophecy centres on a religious order. Plus: Panorama probes technology to stem climate breakdown

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point review – daringly dull Long Island family drama with nepo trimmings

Francesca Scorsese and Sawyer Spielberg could be the draw in this tedium-rich tale of an Italian American festive gathering

Memories of a Burning Body review – Costa Rican older women talk about sex and desire in deft docudrama

The vivid recollections of three women who grew up in the repressive 1950s and 60s are elegantly re-enacted in Antonella Sudasassi’s prize-winning drama

The Last Dance review – the Chinese funeral home comedy you’ve been waiting for

A wedding planner turned undertaker struggles to win over a Taoist priest in writer-director Anselm Chan’s drama with hidden depths

Sergio Leone, ‘the Man with No English’, mimed directions to spaghetti western star Clint Eastwood

The Italian film-maker overcame the language barrier with his actors by using mime, as revealed in previously unseen photographs

Joy review – Jack Thorne-penned IVF drama captures the intense pressure its inventors faced

James Norton, Thomasin McKenzie and Bill Nighy star in a solid study of the trio behind the first test-tube baby

Colm Tóibín: ‘Ireland today is a much freer place’

The Irish author on how the sequel to his bestselling novel Brooklyn was inspired by the film, life in LA, and his thoughts on Trump’s victory

In brief: Nobody’s Empire; Cocktails With George and Martha; Never: The Autobiography – review

A touching coming-of-age novel from the Belle and Sebastian singer; a blow-by-blow account of a classic film; and pop star Rick Astley’s idiosyncratic life story

How a small group of Amazon workers took on big business and challenged traditional unions

A documentary about unionising the company’s Staten Island warehouse reveals new ways of negotiating with oppressive bosses