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Triumphant Warcraft puts Ninja Turtles in the shadows at UK box office

Half-term crowds help propel family-friendly action-thrillers to the top, as Anthony Hopkins/Al Pacino turkey gobbles up just £97

The Measure of a Man review – rage against the machine

A laid-off factory worker must fight for his dignity in a moving portrait of working-class life

The Measure of a Man review – tough and compassionate

Supermarket security guard Thierry is briefed to spy on his colleagues in this subtle character study from Stéphane Brizé

Mon Roi review – histrionic French drama

A portrait of a destructive relationship is burdened by a redundant subplot

Laia Costa: ‘We were doing this scene the whole night and in the end we couldn’t stop’

The Spanish star of German one-take thriller Victoria on the challenges of making the film, and why cinema needs more strong women

Victoria; Spotlight; The Big Short; The Assassin; Dirty Grandpa; Mavis!; Eat Your Bones – review

Love blossoms at double-quick speed in this amazing one-take heist thriller, while Spotlight celebrates the merits of listening

Mustang review – teen tension in Anatolia

Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s debut is an accomplished study of what it means to be young and female in Turkey

Rester Vertical review – exercise in myth-making and sexual adventure fails to stay upright

French director Alain Guiraudie’s follow-up to The Stranger by the Lake is wearyingly self-indulgent and a real disappointment

Arabian Nights: Volume 2 – The Desolate One review – a portrait of Portugal

A dreamlike tour of a nation from director Miguel Gomes, with guides including a cow and a dog

Arabian Nights, Vol 2: The Desolate One review – austerity-age cinematic poetry

In the second serving of Miguel Gomes’s potent trilogy, Scheherazade narrates tales of a killer turned folk hero, judicial madness and a stray dog

Quo Vado? review – Italian smash fails to grab

This vehicle for Italian comedy star Checco Zalone about a government official sent to the Arctic never quite convinces

Son of Saul review – a stunning, excoriating Holocaust drama

László Nemes’s debut, about a prisoner at Auschwitz forced to work in the gas chambers, dramatises the concentration camps with great intelligence, seriousness and audacity

Arabian Nights Volume One: The Restless One review – fact meets folk tale

The Thousand and One Nights proves a rich source of inspiration for this heady mix of documentary, magic realism and satire

Our Little Sister – touching family drama

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s story of siblings reunited has charm and hidden depths

The Brand New Testament review – holy fantastical irreverence

In this unruly Belgian satire, God is a sadistic, filing-fixated resident of Brussels

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