A Human Position review – elegantly restrained Norwegian drama

Nothing much happens, but less is more in Anders Emblem’s quiet tale of a traumatised journalist

Mostly Martha is a feast of a film – and the US remake is a dog’s dinner

More people have probably seen No Reservations, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, but the original German film is charming and better in every way

Nascondino (Hide and Seek) review – remarkable documentary about a Neapolitan street kid

For four years, Victoria Fiore follows bright, personable Entoni, at the mercy of Italy’s new law concerning children from organised crime families

Holy Spider – prurient Iranian serial killer drama

Based on the real-life case of a man who murdered 16 women, Ali Abbasi’s tense film feels at once timely and dehumanising

More Than Ever review – thoughtful drama about how to die well

Vicky Krieps shows her emotional range as a woman taking ownership of terminal illness in Emily Atef’s sensitive film co-starring the late Gaspard Ulliel

Holy Spider review – Iranian crime thriller takes real case and makes it implausible

Twenty years after a serial killer murdered 16 sex workers in Mashad, Ali Abbasi has made a fictionalised account of his capture and trial

More Than Ever review – dying Vicky Krieps acts up a storm in end-of-life drama

Krieps and the late Gaspard Ulliel bring great conviction and intelligence to this unlikely tale of a woman’s last adventure

The Substitute review – vehement inspiring-teacher thriller is all a bit Mr Chips

A poet in Buenos Aires takes up teaching at a tough school and tries to protect his students in Diego Lerman’s cliched, if well-acted, tale

Piggy review – atmospheric Spanish teen horror

Laura Galán excels as the tormented victim of three mean girls in her village in Carlota Pereda’s striking feature debut

Alcarràs review – an angry, urgent fight for family land in Catalonia

Carla Simón’s powerful drama of a battle to save an ancestral peach farm from redevelopment is given added potency by nonprofessional actors

Alcarràs review – heartbreak and ruin in the Catalan heat

Carla Simón’s award-winning story of a peach farmer struggling to make ends meet asks many important questions about our relationship with the land and the human cost of progress

France review – Léa Seydoux’s celebrity journalist becomes the story

A hardened news reporter is forced to reassess her life in Bruno Dumont’s watchable if laboured media satire

Corsage review – Vicky Krieps mesmerises as a rebellious 19th-century royal

The defiance and despair of glamorous Elisabeth of Austria, trapped in a loveless marriage, has a familiar ring in Marie Kreutzer’s stately psychodrama

Wrestling tigers and hurling motorcycles: how SS Rajamouli’s RRR cast a spell over the world

The Indian director was as surprised as anyone that his astonishingly larger than life, logic-defying action film has found a huge global audience. So is Hollywood on the horizon?

France review – TV presenter Léa Seydoux is mesmeric in intriguing media satire

The star and the film’s intentional blankness add a layer of interest to Bruno Dumont’s loose reverie about a journalist experiencing an emotional breakdown