Mads Mikkelsen confirmed as Johnny Depp’s replacement in Fantastic Beasts 3

Danish Bond star Mikkelsen to take over the role of dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald in the third Harry Potter prequel

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom review – Chadwick Boseman glorious in his final film role

The movie version of August Wilson’s story of the blues, starring Boseman and a tremendous Viola Davis, is a ferocious opera of passion and pain

Hillbilly Elegy review – Glenn Close’s grouchy gran saves the day

A troubled teenager ends up at Yale Law School thanks to his eccentric grandmother in this adaptation of JD Vance’s bestselling memoir

Hugh Laurie to star as Maurice, Terry Pratchett’s streetwise tomcat

Actor will head all-star cast for animated version of the beloved author’s novel for children The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Words on Bathroom Walls review – prettified portrait of mental illness

This YA drama about a teenager with schizophrenia is well-intentioned and well-acted but relies too heavily on the cliches of high-school life

Lost the magic? Warner Bros struggles with Depp fallout and Witches criticism

The studio is dealing with censure from disability campaigners in its Anne Hathaway vehicle and must decide whether to recast Johnny Depp’s Fantastic Beasts role

Solitude, sunshine and sanctuary in The Secret Garden

From its interrogation of the ways illness changes and defines us to the tranquility found in nature, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s book is a story for our times

A Christmas Gift from Bob review – family-friendly festive sequel

This themed continuation of A Street Cat Named Bob is undeniably good-hearted but there’s more menace in Paddington 2

The Witches review – Roald Dahl reboot fails to cast the original’s magic spell

Robert Zemeckis’s retelling of the wicked children’s story feels more grumpy than scary, while its comedy veers between frantic and strained

Rebecca to Rachel: 10 of the best Daphne du Maurier films

Ben Wheatley’s new version of the gothic thriller Rebecca joins an impressive list of big-screen Du Maurier adaptations

Carmilla review – clever but bloodless spin on classic female-vampire yarn

Writer-director Emily Harris’s version of Le Fanu’s lesbian vampire tale adds a feminist focus on repression but the sparks don’t fly

Mafia Inc review – old-school gangster pic based on real Canadian milieu

Montreal’s underworld is the focus for this meaty flick about a crime boss aiming to set up a money-spinning project in the old country

The Boys in the Band review – fierce fun and games in the pre-Aids era

This new film version of the off-Broadway hit about gay lives in New York is strange, compelling and unexpectedly potent

Rialto review – raw emotional power fuels a punishing character study

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor excels in this bleak Dublin-set drama about a closeted gay man whose life is unravelling

The Bay of Silence review – dull and clunky man’s-eye-view thriller

Even the cast appear to be nodding off from boredom in this dated drama about postnatal psychosis and dark secrets