Streaming: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and other great martial arts films

This year’s Marvel blockbuster is an ideal leaping off point to martial arts classics such as One-Armed Swordsman and House of Flying Daggers

‘The script is a vehicle’: Japanese director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi on Drive My Car

Hamaguchi’s award-winning and absorbing new movie Drive My Car deals with issues of grief and infidelity – and reflects his artistic journey towards inner truths

‘We think we’re good – but we’re weak’: the making of Natural Light, the year’s most harrowing film

To cast his gruelling war drama, Dénes Nagy combed Hungary’s farms for people ‘with exhaustion in their face’ – then shot it in the Latvian winter. The result? Awards, praise … and fierce criticism

Volcano review – spoon-glueing Ukrainian adventure takes a surreal turn

Roman Bondarchuk handles this strange tale about an interpreter left stranded with some locals with deadpan poise

Natural Light review – reprisals and revenge in chilling examination of the toll of war

Documentary director Dénes Nagy explores how conflict erodes loyalty, morality and human consciousness in his award-winning first feature

Raging Fire review – bad cop steals show from good in savage Hong Kong thriller

With adrenaline-pumping action, Nicholas Tse’s vengeful villain cuts an almost tragic figure

You Will Die at Twenty review – a parable about the dangers of blind faith

Sudan’s first Oscar entry, about a boy destined to die young, is warmed by compassion and gorgeous, dreamy imagery

7 Prisoners review – a powerful tale of slavery in modern-day São Paulo

An impoverished teen seeks to escape the clutches of a human trafficker in Alexandre Moratto’s complex drama

Minari’s Youn Yuh-jung: ‘I’m very strange-looking, in a good way’

As the London Korean film festival kicks off, Youn Yuh-jung, talks about how her portrayals of racy grannies and scheming maids scandalised the nation

Oh no, not another killer in a cage! The 10 movie cliches I can’t watch again

Screenwriters locked Hannibal Lecter and Blofeld in boxes but they’ll reuse any plot device, from balloons as harbingers of doom to Scooby-Doo-style face-swapping

Seven Samurai review – an epic primal myth that pulsates through cinema

Akira Kurosawa’s tale of ascetic mercenaries brought together for a single job inspired endless imitations, but the original has lost none of its magic

Playlist review – appealingly gauche French twentysomething romance

A young woman dreams of working as an artist – and finding a man – in Nine Antico’s feature debut

Playlist review – relatable, quirky Parisian quarter-life drama

Graphic novelist Sophie is disillusioned with adulthood in Nine Antico’s black and white, Paris-set drama of twentysomething life

7 Prisoners review – devastating but compelling trafficking drama

Alexandre Moratto’s feature about workers lured into modern-day slavery in Brazil takes an unexpected turn

Iranian family road trip movie wins top prize at London film festival

Panah Panahi’s Hit the Road wins award for ‘distinctive film-making that captures essence of cinema’