Dead Man’s Wire review – Gus Van Sant calls the shots with surreal true-crime thriller

Al Pacino, Colman Domingo and Myha’la excel in this gripping take on the events of 1977 when an Indianapolis businessman held his mortgage broker hostage

A House of Dynamite review – Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white-knuckle comeback

Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Tracy Letts star in this immaculately constructed nightmare procedural that ticks down the minutes from an atomic bomb’s launch to its detonation

The Smashing Machine review – Dwayne Johnson only possible casting as crisis-riddled UFC champ Mark Kerr

Former pro wrestler Johnson takes on the role of man-mountain Kerr who goes into meltdown when the unthinkable happens – he loses

The Testament of Ann Lee review – strikingly strange portrait of radically ecstatic Shaker leader

Amanda Seyfried plays the 18th-century missionary who took her radical message to the New World, in Mona Fastvold’s elusive film

Kim Novak’s Vertigo review – the dizzying demands on Hitchcock’s leading lady

An intensely personal interview with the 92-year-old Hollywood star delivers showstopping moments for fans of the golden age of movies

My Tennis Maestro review – unforced errors keep Italian coming-of-age comedy from grand slam

Pierfrancesco Favino is a robust lead as a teenage tennis hopeful’s charming yet flawed new coach in a film that’s too long and too indecisive to stand up to recent big hitters

The Wizard of the Kremlin review – Jude Law is Putin in adaptation of Kremlin spin doctor bestseller

The rise of Vladimir Putin, chillingly played by Law, is portrayed through the eyes of a wily insider, but Paul Dano’s protagonist cuts a one-note figure

Frankenstein review – Guillermo del Toro reanimates a classic as a monstrously beautiful melodrama

Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi star as the freethinking anatomist and his creature as Mary Shelley’s story is reimagined with bombast in the director’s unmistakable visual style

Pompei: Below the Clouds review – a ghostly yet luminous cinematic mosaic of Naples crowns a superb trio

There is a real end-of-days quality to Gianfranco Rosi’s utterly distinctive documentary of war, violence, cynicism and the climate crisis in an uneasy city

Late Fame review – Willem Dafoe is a natural poet in a slice-of-life New York fable

A postman’s forgotten poetry collection finds new admirers in a tale of how the mystique of the past filters to the present

Rose of Nevada review – uncanny ghost ship story from one-of-a-kind Cornish auteur

A vanished trawler returns in Mark Jenkin’s time-slipping film, an enigmatic drama steeped in loss, memory and the unsettling rhythms of coastal life

Ish review – Luton-set urban pastoral in which racial profiling pushes teen friends apart

Police pressure throws into crisis the tenderly portrayed relationship of two young men coming of age in Bedfordshire town

No Other Choice review – sensational state-of-the-nation satire from Park Chan-wook

An unemployed paper worker hatches a cunning plan to murder his way back into the job market in this continually surprising black comedy from the director of The Handmaiden and Oldboy

After the Hunt review – Julia Roberts faces a dilemma in Guadagnino’s muddled campus accusation drama

Luca Guadagnino’s latest – also starring Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield – is clenched in its own sense of relevance, as a desire to find complexity in a scandal at Yale becomes a noncommittal jumble of ideas

At Work review – photographer ditches career for gig economy and writing in poverty drama

Though the film is eventful enough, there is a bland placidity with which Bastien Bouillon plays a man following his dreams in this quaintly naive drama