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In the Aisles review – Toni Erdmann star graces engrossing workplace drama

Sandra Hüller shines in an intriguing fable about a giant supermarket, in which she plays a sweet counter manager with a fondness for a forklift driver

Mug review – metalhead meets giant Jesus in peculiar Polish comedy

A hard-rocking Polish builder is injured while working on a towering statue of Christ in a scabrous and strangely affecting drama

Birth of the Dragon review – unconvincing Bruce Lee origin myth

The romanticised touches don’t help this account of a private bout involving the martial arts star, pre-fame, in San Francisco

Detective Chinatown 2 review – wacky slapstick and goofy hijinks

Detectives from around the world descend on New York’s Chinatown in a broad action-comedy sequel from Chen Sicheng

You Have No Idea How Much I Love You review – secrets and lies

This documentary about an emotional therapy session with Polish psychotherapist Bogdan de Barbaro is compellingly real … up to a point

Fifty Shades Freed ties up top spot at UK box office

The third instalment takes the franchise over $1bn worldwide, while The Greatest Showman appears set to overtake La La Land as biggest-grossing original musical

Loveless review – a lost boy in a toxic world

A child’s disappearance is the catalyst for a savage indictment of family breakdown in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s mesmerising, Oscar-nominated film

Bergman: why are the great director’s women all tragi-sexual goddesses?

Ingmar Bergman’s spellbinding films made his female stars immortal. But they weren’t all grateful. Could this famously manipulative genius have survived in the #MeToo era?

Makala review – a father’s perilous quest beautifully captured

Kabwita Kasongo plays a version of himself in a sympathetic account of his hardscrabble existence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Nothing Factory review – workers fight asset strippers in enigmatic epic

Pedro Pinho’s sprawling, deadpan drama about a Portuguese lift factory threatened with shutdown is finally evasive with acted with force

Padmaavat review – Indian drama that sparked riots is a fabulous tale of love and plunder

Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s extravagant medieval epic, which has been the subject of controversy in its home country, makes for a gloriously stirring spectacle

A Woman’s Life review – gauzy frocks and polite feminism

Stéphane Brizé’s period drama trots along like a reliable chestnut mare, tugging steadily behind it the tale of a sensitive heiress who marries a rotter

Mukkabaaz (The Brawler) review – Bollywood boxing epic takes on caste injustice

Vineet Kumar Singh stars as a low-caste boxer fighting for respect in Anurag Kashyap’s heavy-hitting social critique

Glory review – black humour and fatalism with a stiff shot of misanthropy

No good deed goes unpunished in this lugubrious realist fable about a Bulgarian railway linesman who hands in some cash he finds scattered on the tracks

Rey review – dreamlike drama about a man who would be king

Seven years in the making, video artist Niles Atallah’s hallucinatory film follows a French explorer who was crowned by the Mapuche in Chile

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