Vampires, Muppets and prequels: The Great Gatsby’s new life out of copyright
The Great Gatsby is out of US copyright and fans of Fitzgerald’s novel have rushed to pay tribute with new books and fanfiction. What does it mean for the novel’s legacy?
Twist review – try-hard reboot spray paints over Dickens’ tale
Rafferty Law’s young hero is a graffiti artist and Michael Caine’s Fagin an ex-art dealer in this under-par update of Oliver Twist
The Masque of the Red Death review – horribly apt Poe adaptation
Roger Corman’s 1964 cult classic about a medieval pestilence closing in on a decadent count played by Vincent Price has uncomfortable resonance
The Exception review – psycho-thriller foiled by lazy sexism
A group of unhinged women turn on each other in a by-the-numbers Danish drama written and directed by men
The White Tiger rides the surge in streamed south Asian stories
The adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s Booker-winning novel is coming to Netflix – one of a growing number of films from the region snapped up by the streaming giants
Recon review – GIs on a mission to nowhere
Second world war soldiers in Italy march warily towards a possible trap in a disappointingly flat adaptation of Richard Bausch’s much-lauded novel
The Dig review – Sutton Hoo excavation romance is none too deep
Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes unearth an Anglo-Saxon burial ship, but leave their emotions interred, in this robustly English drama
Blithe Spirit review – Judi Dench presides over a deathly farce
Dan Stevens, Leslie Mann and Isla Fisher mug spiritedly but there is little life in this unfunny Noël Coward adaptation
André Aciman on writing Call Me by Your Name: ‘I fell in love with Elio and Oliver’
The novelist on his famous romance, initially scribbled as a distraction from the novel he was supposed to be writing
The White Tiger review – Balzac-worthy satire of submission and power
This adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s Booker-winning novel about aspiration in modern India is teeming with energy and sadness
One Night in Miami review – high-concept quartet of 1960s African American icons
Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and NFL star Jim Brown ring in the changes in a Florida motel room in Regina King’s spirited film
Come Away review – an indigestible lump of kid-lit stodge
Combining elements of classic children’s books and starry cameos, this leaden family fantasy is flatter than an empty sweet wrapper
The Midnight Sky review – beardy George Clooney marooned in bland cosmic yarn
Clooney desperately tries to warn a returning spaceship of earthly apocalypse in this languid space caper
A Christmas Carol review – clever multimedia reworking of Dickens
With dance, silent cinema and collage, Jacqui and David Morris’s version of the classic story is never less than enthralling
Black Beauty review – gender-swapped classic makes Beauty a ‘mare
A few nods to climate change and disability cannot reinvigorate this bland, corporate retelling of a beloved tale