Poetic License review – Apatow family affair ends up as warm and funny comedy

Judd Apatow’s actor daughter Maude directs her mother Leslie Mann in a smart, charming film about a woman adrift finding unlikely younger friends

Sacrifice review – starry satire pokes fun at celebrity before falling into a volcano

Chris Evans is excellent as a vain actor kidnapped by an eco-terrorism cult in an initially amusing comedy of performative politics that falls apart

Rental Family review – Brendan Fraser is stranded in mawkish misfire

The Oscar-winning star of The Whale makes another awards play with a beautifully shot yet emotionally inert comedy drama

Bad Apples review – Saoirse Ronan’s dark, school-set satire doesn’t go far enough

The four-time Oscar nominee is as strong as ever playing a teacher in a shocking situation, but the film can’t quite rise to her level

Roofman review – Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst lift fact-based crime caper

The two stars do their share of heavy lifting in Derek Cianfrance’s intermittently effective comedy drama about a deceitful prison escapee

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert review – Baz Luhrmann’s electric yet avoidant documentary

The bombastic director’s second film about the music legend shows the singer at his most mesmerizing but the picture remains incomplete

Good Fortune review – Aziz Ansari’s big comeback comedy struggles to find big laughs

The multi-hyphenate’s directorial debut has noble intentions in its timely class commentary but his brand of humour makes for an awkward fit

California Schemin’ review – James McAvoy’s directorial debut is an unlikely rap tale

The actor makes for a hit-and-miss first time film-maker with the undeniably involving true story of Scottish rappers who pretended to be American

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review – whodunnit threequel is murderously good fun

After Glass Onion underwhelmed, Rian Johnson’s self-aware, star-packed Benoit Blanc series makes a barnstorming return to form

The Voice of Hind Rajab was better than the film which won Venice. But that result wasn’t a cop-out

Many felt Kaouther Ben Hania’s Gaza docufiction was robbed when Jim Jarmusch’s latest took the top prize. Yet accusations of moral cowardice on the part of the jury are naive and unfair

Winter of the Crow review – Lesley Manville commands cold war thriller

The Oscar nominee makes for a compelling heroine in a solid and intermittently suspenseful tale of a professor stuck in a nightmare

Fuze review – twisty London-set heist thriller should have stolen some personality

Scottish director David Mackenzie recruits Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Theo James for a caper heavy on double-crossing but light on style

The Lost Bus review – Paul Greengrass wildfire movie is as stressful as you’d expect

The director retells the worst wildfire in California’s history with expected technical prowess but he’s hampered by a soapy script

Move over fashion week: Chanel and Dior soft launch creations at Venice film festival

Big brands use red carpets and gondolas in Italian city to show looks from newly installed designers

Obsession review – nasty horror sees a wish for true love go horribly wrong

Writer-director Curry Barker follows up $800 YouTube hit Milk & Serial with a frighteningly effective, and head-smashingly gory, cautionary tale