Corpus Christi review – from parole to the priesthood
This smart plot-twister about an ex-con who takes up the identity of a new priest sidesteps a soppy trajectory to land on a much bleaker, thoughtful note
Beanpole review – Russians pay a bitter price for survival
Kantemir Balagov brilliantly deploys shock tactics to weigh the horrors of peace against the trauma of war in 1945 Leningrad
Werewolf review – choppy, shlocky Polish drama
Pairing concentration camp history and horror stylings leads to a struggle with tone Adrian Panek’s film can’t surmount
Werewolf review – kids v crazed canines horror
A group of teenagers liberated from a Nazi concentration camp face a terrible new threat in this disturbing, challenging drama
Normal review – lawyers in bikinis to dogma in the doll’s house
Adele Tulli’s elegantly deadpan documentary challenges the sexual stereotypes that prevail across the generations
Streaming: after the dazzling Shadow, catch up on the best of Zhang Yimou
As the Chinese auteur’s new blockbuster goes online, it’s time to catch up on his greatest hits…
Phoenix review – Norwegian family drama doesn’t fly
Hints of horror undermine rather than underline themes in Camilla Strøm Henriksen’s first film
La Flor review – 13 thrilling hours of lovers, spies and scorpions
Six stories featuring the same four actors unfold in inventive and exasperating style in an arthouse ultramarathon
The Shock of the Future review – when synths ruled the world
A young woman in late-70s Paris explores the thrilling possibilities of electronic music in a drama with a timely feminist slant
Phoenix review – horror comes home in chilly Scandi drama
Daily dread infuses the raw, claustrophobic story of a teenage carer looking after her troubled mother and little brother
The Shiny Shrimps review – a belly flop of a comedy
A homophobic swimming coach has to mend his ways
Sprinter review – speedy sporting drama runs out of puff
A Jamaican athlete’s career is jeopardised by problems off the track in this heartwarming tale of ambition and family ties
Moffie review – soldiers on the frontline of homophobia
Hidden passions add to the brutish hell of apartheid-era South African conscripts in Oliver Hermanus’s skilfully tense drama
The Shiny Shrimps review – water polo comedy stuck at the shallow end
A homophobic swimming champ is tasked with coaching a gay men’s team in this well-meaning but uninspiring tale
Rojo review – shame and fury in the land of the disappeared
Set before the coup that installed a military junta in Argentina, Benjamín Naishtat’s satire is a disturbing parable of iniquity