Rustin review – Colman Domingo shines in by-the-numbers civil rights biopic

Story of Bayard Rustin, an often unsung Black queer man who fought alongside Martin Luther King, is adapted into a rousing, if creaky, drama

The Critic review – a devious Ian McKellen anchors uneven thriller

A delicious performance as a catty gay theatre critic in 1930s London almost saves this Patrick Marber-scripted drama

What can a new documentary tell us about the Louis CK scandal?

Sorry/Not Sorry, a new film premiering at the Toronto film festival, looks for lessons in the public disgrace and swift comeback of the comedian

Next Goal Wins review – Taika Waititi’s football comedy is strikingly unfunny

A miscast Michael Fassbender plays a coach trying to save a team of underdogs in a lacklustre fact-based string-puller

The Pigeon Tunnel review – inside the extraordinary life of John le Carré

Errol Morris’s gentle interview allows the mesmeric writer to hold forth on how his relationship with dodgy dad Ronnie informed his life as a spy and novelist

Spike Lee: critics said Do the Right Thing would ‘incite riots’

Speaking at the Toronto film festival, where he was accepting an award, the auteur recalled the press response to his 1989 film

The Holdovers review – Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti reunite for charming comedy

The director makes a welcome return to form with a warm and melancholic 70s-set comedy drama led by a trio of note-perfect performances

Dear Jassi review – Hollywood maximalist makes first Indian movie

Tarsem Singh Dhandwar, director of The Cell and Immortals, returns with a tragic and horrifying romance that could afford a bit more subtlety

Daddio review – Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn take a bumpy ride

The two stars do their best with a psychologically limited two-hander that takes place in a taxi from JFK airport to Manhattan

Close to You review – Elliot Page anchors well-intentioned yet patchy drama

The actor makes a convincing big screen comeback as a man visiting his family for the first time since transitioning, but effective moments are offset by clunkiness

Lee review – Kate Winslet is an ex-model on a mission in musty biopic

The Oscar-winner is reliably commanding as Lee Miller, who went from fashion to war photography, but she struggles to lift a by-the-numbers drama

American Fiction review – incisive literary satire takes no prisoners

Jeffrey Wright leads a note-perfect cast as an author pandering to a white appetite for Black trauma in an impressive debut from Cord Jefferson

One Life review – Anthony Hopkins moves in stirring second world war drama

The two-time Oscar winner makes a convincing play for a third statuette in the powerful story of Nicholas Winton, who saved Jewish children before the war began