The Archies review – Riverdale goes to India for goofy lessons in capitalism
Relocated to north India in 1964, the comic-book class struggle here comes complete with romance and brilliant choreography
Wonka review – Timothée Chalamet’s Chocolate Factory prequel is a superbly sweet treat
Timothée Chalamet leads a beguiling cast in a backstory that rinses away all sourness from Roald Dahl’s embittered chocolatier
Eileen review – Anne Hathaway is vehement in solemnly intense psycho-noir
Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel becomes a disappointing movie, unable to decide if it’s a thriller or a dark comedy, though Thomasin McKenzie and Hathaway give it their all
Leave the World Behind review – Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali excel in cracking apocalyptic thriller
Sam Esmail’s sharp, hugely enjoyable dramatisation of Rumaan Alam’s acclaimed novel is exec produced by the Obamas
Leave the World Behind review – Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke’s apocalypto-paranoid thriller
Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke’s weekend getaway starts to go wrong when two mysterious strangers appear at the door. Then things get weirder
My Father’s Secrets review – Holocaust pain unlocked in Jewish coming-of-age tale
Animated feature, based on Michel Kichka’s autobiographical graphic novel, explores the legacy of genocide from a sideways angle
Aurora’s Sunrise review – remarkable story of genocide horror and survival
In archive interviews and painterly animated reconstrucions, Aurora Mardiganian recalls her experiences during the Armenian genocide – and how she escaped to the US and became a silent film star
Desperation Road review – Mel Gibson still after redemption in southern crime yarn
Hardluck single mother blows into a small town just as an ex-con returns there, and many thinly drawn secondary characters kick off
Can Greta Gerwig bring a new kind of magic to Netflix’s Narnia Chronicles?
The Barbie film-maker is set to direct adaptations of at least two of CS Lewis’s fantasy novels for the streaming giant – will she do better than the last ones?
Elon Musk biopic to be directed by Black Swan film-maker Darren Aronofsky
The Oscar-nominated film-maker will adapt the recent biography by Walter Isaacson after independent studio A24 won a ‘heated’ bidding war for rights
Leo: Bloody Sweet review – leave your logic at the door for rampaging action yarn
The Tamil version of David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence is wildly enjoyable, packed full of hyenas, car chases, fight scenes and, of course, song and dance
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes review – back to an empty future
Prequel to the hit teen dystopia recruits Rachel Zegler and Jason Schwartzman to labour over IP that is now starved of inspiration
Stamped from the Beginning review – tracing racism throughout American history
Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams talks to high-profile Black women in a hybrid documentary/animation based on Dr Ibram X Kendi’s landmark book
A Forgotten Man review – watchable account of central figure in Swiss wartime guilt
Laurent Nègre’s stagey film is also a free adaptation of Thomas Hürlimann’s play on the same subject, and may have worked better in the theatre
Butcher’s Crossing review – Nicolas Cage keeps quiet in buffalo-hunting western
Cage leads a strong cast into the wilderness in an adaptation of John Williams’ punishing novel that cannot quite convey the full horror of its events