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Fans of writer-director Babak Anvari’s debut ‘Under the Shadow’ will be disappointed in the weedy screenwriting here
‘My Old School’ tells the true story of a 30-year-old posing as a teenage student; ‘Free Chol Soo Lee’ is a fascinating crime documentary about a victim of injustice; ‘Girls Can’t Surf’ is a history of women taking on the waves and sexism; Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’ is a spectacle of aliens and horse wranglers — reviews by Raphael Abraham, Leslie Felperin and Danny Leigh
Captivating documentary starring Alan Cumming recounts the real story of a Scotsman who infiltrated his alma mater
A history of women on the waves takes in the challenges of endurance, sexism and homophobia
A fascinating true crime documentary about a victim of injustice and the activist spirit that saved him
In what other story does a suburban house so seductively shut out the real world?
Laal Singh Chaddha tells of a naïf who bumbles through historic events
Some stories transcend even the Hollywood treatment
The film trails a clean-cut foursome from Zimbabwe who compete in the World Blind Tasting Championships
Israeli writer-director Ari Folman sets himself a formidable tonal challenge and pulls it off with this thoughtful work
The mastermind behind Paris’s most famous landmark is at the heart of this movie starring Romain Duris and Emma Mackey
Menace, ambition and aliens fuel a big-screen fairground ride from the ‘Get Out’ and ‘Us’ film-maker
Chinese action movie shot in ruins of Hajar al-Aswad upsets one-time inhabitants unable to return
Peggy Holmes directs an animated film of grandiose design, with ‘Toy Story’ maker John Lasseter producing
The actor’s comic chops can’t save an ultra-violent crime caper stuffed with self-delighted banter
Perry Henzell’s 1972 tale of guns and ganja helped bring reggae to the west, with a star turn from Jimmy Cliff
Sarah Beddington’s documentary explores issues of belonging, banishment and arbitrarily drawn borders
Olivier Assayas’s remake of his 1996 film is at its best when exposing the behind-the-scenes madness of a shoot
Werner Herzog, Oliver Stone and David Koepp reveal what has drawn them from the screen to the book
An Irish solicitor and her newborn are kidnapped in a film that mixes laughs with melancholy insights about parenting
Panah Panahi, whose dissident father was sentenced to prison last week, directs a film about family and the pain of parting
Colin Farrell and Viggo Mortensen are among the cast in a low-key drama that mixes old and new, east and west
Sara Dosa brings wit and style to her spectacular profile of French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft
Skydance unit debuts first film under John Lasseter as part of four-picture deal with Apple
The star of new thriller series Surface says becoming an executive producer has given her the chance to reshape the industry
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