Okko’s Inn review – come for the story, stay for the quirky characters

A traumatised child gets into the innkeeping business – with the help of some benevolent phantoms – in a perky tale from a former Studio Ghibli animator

Ten years ago, I thought Britain was becoming more tolerant. I was wrong

Sarfraz Manzoor recalled the racism of his childhood in Luton in his memoir Greetings from Bury Park. As a film adaptation is released, he asks how much has really changed

We the Animals review – tough times in the sunshine

This coming-of-age story about three brothers growing up in backwoods America features some hard knocks but risks prettifying poverty

Men in Black: International review – a galactically gormless fall to earth

This latest outing for the government agents tasked with policing pesky space invaders is a charmless and pointless affair

Memoir of War review – Parisian wartime drama fails to ignite

The tale of a woman whose husband is caught by the Nazis muffles the fury and anger of Marguerite Duras’ book

Wounds review – crassly unsubtle mobile-phone horror

Armie Hammer is a New Orleans bartender sucked through a cosmic portal in a J-horror-influenced misfire by Under the Shadow’s Babak Anvari

The minefield of fame: how accurate do biopics need to be?

Screen adaptations of the lives of the famous must tread a fine line, as a new film about Tolkien shows

Bel Canto review – Julianne Moore trills as opera star in hostage drama

Moore hits the high notes opposite Ken Watanabe in this soapy adaptation of Ann Patchett’s bestselling novel

Hellboy review – a soulless descent into the seventh circle of tedium

The dehorned battler is reconfigured into a franchise figurehead – and loses all his devilish excitement

How we made A Clockwork Orange – by Malcolm McDowell

‘The eyelid clamps kept slipping off and scratching my corneas. I was in so much pain I was banging my head against a wall’

Larry Cohen, cult exploitation director, dies aged 77

The man behind the It’s Alive and Maniac Cop franchises also wrote scripts for TV and the Colin Farrell thriller Phone Booth

Pet Sematary review – lairy, hairy new version of Stephen King’s undead animal shocker

Previously filmed in 1989, this creepy tale of a family who discover that buried pets in their backyard won’t stay dead is an impressively nasty scare story

Regina King wins Oscar for best supporting actress for If Beale Street Could Talk

Actor receives accolade for her role as a mother in Barry Jenkin’s adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk

The Aftermath review – forbidden love lost in the postwar fog

Keira Knightley plays a lonely military wife who falls for a German widower in a tragi-romantic drama set uneasily amid Hamburg’s smouldering ruins

Piercing review – perverse desires perverted

Nicolas Pesce is inspired by Italian sexploitation horror-thrillers of the 70s in this outre film about a man whose murderous desires are thwarted