Hold Your Breath review – Sarah Paulson gets lost in scattered horror

A 1930s-set thriller, about a family battling mysterious dust storms and a possible intruder, is impressively made and acted but falls apart by the end

A live-action version of Rugrats with CGI babies sounds nightmarish … and kind of interesting

Paramount’s ‘hybrid’ spin on the animated cartoon is bound to be disturbingly freakish, as it mixes real actors with animated baby-blobs

Time tunnels, bathing in blood and wonton soup: movies about the search for eternal youth – ranked!

With the release of The Substance, in which Demi Moore’s fading celebrity seeks to create a younger version of herself, we rate the 10 best films about turning back time

Young Frankenstein review – Mel Brooks monster comedy is wonderfully alive as ever

Gene Wilder’s giddy brilliance is backed by a tremendous supporting cast and only a few gags lumber as the film is re-released for its 50th anniversary

An Inspector Calls review – Alastair Sim drawing room drama brilliantly exposes its era’s hypocrisies

Sim is superbly insinuating as the detective arriving with a few questions for the complacent residents of a grand Edwardian home

The Friend review – Naomi Watts befriends great dane in sweet, slight drama

An adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s bestselling 2018 novel about a woman dealing with her friend’s suicide is tender and well-acted, if a little messy

John Boyega to play Otis Redding in new biopic alongside Danielle Deadwyler

Star Wars actor will lead Otis & Zelma, which will celebrate the ‘eternal love story’ between the singer and his wife

Better Man: see Robbie Williams as a CGI chimp in first trailer for biopic

Bizarre but critically acclaimed film from director Michael Gracey is set for a Boxing Day release

House of Spoils review – Ariana DeBose’s foodie horror is a light snack

The Oscar winner presides over a creepy restaurant in a goofy thriller that offers more for fans of cookery shows than those looking for a scare

Challengers, Carrie and an Aussie spin on The Office: what’s new to streaming in Australia in October

Plus an excellent queer romance, a new comedy produced by Armando Iannucci and a Netflix drama set to become ‘Succession in the outback’

V/H/S/Beyond review – charmingly ragged lo-fi horror anthology strikes again

The latest set of found-footage and alien tales packs together a Bollywood witch with a terrifying birthday treat and some very sinister dog daycare

Daniel Day-Lewis’s return to acting is welcome news – but being directed by his son might prove tricky

Ronan Day-Lewis has brought his father out of retirement to shoot Anemone, yet any great actor knows the difficulties of working with young, inexperienced directors

Children of the Cult review – fierce doc about the Osho commune survivors

Courageously covering what Netflix’s Wild Wild Country didn’t, this film confronts those who ran the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh meditation centres with the shocking testimonies of its child victims

Maya and the Wave review – the sea is not the only risk for female big-wave surfer

Documentary about Maya Gabeira’s record-breaking feats almost accidentally tells a story too about the endemic sexism in sport

Harder Than the Rock review – reggae’s unsung heroes finally get their moment

Cimarons, the UK’s first reggae band, played with Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley but barely made a penny; this heartwarming film follows their first gig in 30 years