I Am Urban review – powerful memoir of lost children in Leeds is played for larks

A strong cast including an intense turn from Fraser Kelly as the 11-year-old title character can’t stop the gritty ambition of the story sliding into schmaltz

Doctor Jekyll review – Eddie Izzard in gender-flipped reboot of Hammer horror

Casting Izzard as billionaire scientist Nina, a new incarnation for the classic story’s tormented hero, proves less intriguing than it sounds

Suitable Flesh review – eye-rolling Heather Graham in erotic body-swap horror thriller

Adapted from a 1937 HP Lovecraft story, this has some nice stylistic touches, even if the demonic possession, wafting sax and softcore silliness is a bit over the top

Christine review – Stephen King’s evil car still has a one-track mind

John Carpenter’s enjoyably pulpy adaptation of King’s 1983 horror novel, about a car that infects its owners with evil, gets a 40th-anniversary revival

Cassius X: Becoming Ali review – boxing legend’s story goes back to his roots

There’s a lot to enjoy, but nothing new, in this documentary that focuses on a key transitional period in Muhammad Ali’s life

Lies We Tell review – high stakes and heiresses in tightly laced gothic tale

An orphaned Irish teenager spars with her scheming uncle in this insightful reworking of Sheridan Le Fanu’s novel

Cry, the Beloved Country review – utterly absorbing tale from the birth of apartheid

Zoltan Korda’s 1951 adaptation of Alan Paton’s crusading novel is filled with passion and moral fortitude

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde review – menace on Edinburgh’s mean streets

Hope Dickson Leach’s atmospheric adaptation of the classic thriller looks good but in rewriting the story, adds an unnecessary element of distraction

From Lady Gaga to Lady Penelope: who could play Liz Truss on screen?

A look at actors who could be in the frame amid reports rights sold for miniseries on former PM’s meteoric rise and rapid fall

The Exorcist review – Friedkin’s head-swivelling horror is still diabolically inspired

The 50th anniversary extended director’s cut of the 1973 tale of teenage possession still shocks

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar review – Wes Anderson’s star-stuffed Roald Dahl yarn

At just 37 minutes, Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ben Kingsley, Dev Patel and Richard Ayoade never get beyond the two-dimensional

Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms review – immortals and armies wreak havoc

Director Wuershan’s ambitious adaptation of Xu Zhonglin’s 16th-century novel has too much highly variable CGI but its idiosyncrasies set it apart

A Haunting in Venice review – Branagh’s Agatha Christie whodunnit given horror makeover

No amount of spooky jump-scares can save Kenneth Branagh’s latest Christie adaptation, which wastes its atmospheric setting and stellar cast

Origin review – a heartfelt look at a journalist challenging the concept of race

There are solid performances in this dramatisation of Isabel Wilkerson’s attempt to explain racism as an aspect of the caste system, but it may have been better as a documentary

Priscilla review – Sofia Coppola paints an absorbing, intimate portrait of Elvis’s wife

Based on Priscilla Presley’s memoir, the film shows how a naive schoolgirl became trapped behind the gates of Graceland in a bizarrely co-dependent relationship