Tom of Finland review – intriguing biopic of a gay liberation hero
Pekka Strang stars as the Finnish wartime artist Touko Laaksonen, whose homoerotic illustrations helped create the iconography of gay culture
Jean-Pierre Melville: cinematic poet of the lowlife and criminal
The French resistance fighter turned film-maker had an instinctive sympathy for the outsider, and remodelled the crime thriller into something studied, cool and subversive
Ghost in the Shell; The Handmaiden; Viceroy’s House and more – review
Carnal pleasures and clever plotting combine in Park Chan-wook’s thrilling The Handmaiden, while Scarlett Johansson is a woman of steel
Land of Mine review – tough, shockingly violent war movie
This well-made Danish film dramatises a grim episode at the end of the second world war, when teenage German PoWs were forced into mine-clearance work
Sacré bleu! Why Franco-Belgian comic-book movies are more fun than Marvel and DC
Home-grown superheroes may rule over Hollywood, but French and Belgian comic-book adaptations are often stranger and sexier than their US counterparts
Scribe review – tense but overcomplicated thriller
Its murky world of surveillance casts a pall over this French drama
Get Out; The Lost City of Z; Kong: Skull Island and more – review
Racial hatred adopts a happy face in Jordan Peele’s exhilarating horror, while an explorer’s search for a buried city is a glorious ode to failure
Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life review – radiant tribute to a cinematic maestro
Cinema’s magic is the running theme of this warm documentary about the life and works of visionary cinematographer Carlo Di Palma
Scribe review – paranoid thriller can’t deliver on promising premise
François Cluzet is hired by a sinister security firm in Thomas Kruithof’s atmospheric debut, which takes its cue from the 70s classics
Monster Island review – forgettable family animation
This ploddingly mediocre knockoff about a boy with a monstrous genetic secret is visually uninspired and not much to listen to
The Death of Louis XIV review – a fine royal farewell
Jean-Pierre Léaud stars as the dying monarch in a tragedy tinged with black humour
Genocidal Organ review – glib Japanese animation of post-nuclear horror
Despite its ambitious futuristic reach and some amazing visuals, this violent anime is inert and unconvincing
The Death of Louis XIV review – a quietly amazing portrait of the end of life
Jean-Pierre Léaud gives the performance of his career in this powerful, intimate and moving account of the French king’s final days
The Midwife review – the Catherines are great
Deneuve and Frot excel as contrasting women with an account to settle in a tale that combines realism and melodrama
The Midwife review – old wounds reopened in emotional two-hander
Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot give it their all in a moving, verging on sentimental, tale of homewrecking and home truths