Lost in translation? The one-inch truth about Netflix’s subtitle problem

Subtitling is an essential art form. So why, as the streaming giant scores more global hits with shows like Squid Game and Call My Agent, isn’t it trying harder to find the right words?

Never Gonna Snow Again review – rich brew of strangeness in unsettling suburbia

A mysterious masseur visits a dysfunctional gated community in this absorbing Polish fairytale

The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmāo review – sisters fight the pain of patriarchy

This gorgeous and moving melodrama finds two women in 1950s Rio under suffocating family expectations – and sees what happens when they are defied

The Lodger review – Jacqueline Bisset’s slinky landlady holds key to lurid thriller

Bisset vamps it up as a white-haired femme fatale in this amusing and atmospheric French mystery

Brusque cops and femmes fatales: discovering Gilles Grangier’s forgotten noir gem

Le Désordre et la Nuit, shown as part of a retrospective for the great thriller director at Lyon’s Lumière film festival, is a well-crafted treat for fans of the genre

My Little Sister review – terrific, prickly sibling drama

Starring two of Germany’s finest actors, this story of adult twins and their toxic mother packs a rare emotional punch

The Ape Woman review – freakshow satire with bizarre alternative-ending payoff

Watching both versions of this 1964 drama of Elephant Man-style exploitation reveals an impressive degree of tenderness and complexity

My Little Sister review – fierce and fraught family drama

Nina Hoss and Lars Eidinger give finely acted performances as they play twins brought back together through illness – but who is saving who?

The Maid review – a giddy, gory satire that sticks it to the super-wealthy

Shadowy figures lurk in Lee Thongkham’s stylised horror, which wrongfoots the audience with jump scares aplenty

The Man Who Sold His Skin review – scathing Tunisian satire

The art world and society’s attitudes towards refugees are equally skewered in this powerful Oscar nominee

Balloon review – trouble on the Tibetan steppes

A sheep farmer discovers she is pregnant again, despite China’s one-child policy, in this wry, delicate drama

Balloon review – beauty and melancholy in Tibet’s sheep-herding life

Writer-director Pema Tseden tells this story of a clash between modernity and tradition as a woman is dismayed to find she is pregnant

Gagarine review – close encounters of the banlieue kind

This mesmerising debut about a teenager looking to fix up his Paris estate passes up the usual angry social-realism in favour of something more celestial

Mélanie Laurent on The Mad Women’s Ball: ‘It was like the doctors were playing with dolls’

The French actor has directed a historical drama about women experimented on at a psychiatric hospital in Paris. She talks about the shocking story – and its resonance for women today

La Caja review – mystery box of bones ignites brooding surrogate-father tale

The final instalment in Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas’s trilogy about fathers and sons takes on social issues as well as emotional ones