Steve review – Cillian Murphy is outstanding in ferocious reform school drama

Adapted by Max Porter from his novella Shy and co-starring Little Simz, Emily Watson and Tracey Ullman this brutal but ultimately hopeful story is fiercely affecting

Jumanji review – startling 90s game fantasy adventure with Robin Williams in winning form

Williams is exuberant but controlled as elephants trample the town and a waterfall crashes down the stairs in bizarre fantasy that still holds up

On Swift Horses review – Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar-Jones simmer in glossy drama of sex and identity

Things are not as hetero as they appear in this handsome melodrama framing the postwar period as one of searching for meaning beyond the picket fence

The Wizard of the Kremlin review – Jude Law is Putin in adaptation of Kremlin spin doctor bestseller

The rise of Vladimir Putin, chillingly played by Law, is portrayed through the eyes of a wily insider, but Paul Dano’s protagonist cuts a one-note figure

Frankenstein review – Guillermo del Toro reanimates a classic as a monstrously beautiful melodrama

Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi star as the freethinking anatomist and his creature as Mary Shelley’s story is reimagined with bombast in the director’s unmistakable visual style

Late Fame review – Willem Dafoe is a natural poet in a slice-of-life New York fable

A postman’s forgotten poetry collection finds new admirers in a tale of how the mystique of the past filters to the present

At Work review – photographer ditches career for gig economy and writing in poverty drama

Though the film is eventful enough, there is a bland placidity with which Bastien Bouillon plays a man following his dreams in this quaintly naive drama

‘Pink Floyd were my landscape. I was a hippy’: Pierce Brosnan revisits his old London haunts

The former 007 and current star of The Thursday Murder Club goes for a stroll in London’s Camden Town and Primrose Hill. Can he get past the security guard at the Roundhouse, where he once walked a tipsy Tennessee Williams to his car?

Caught Stealing review – Darren Aronofsky’s violent, chaotic and highly enjoyable crime flick

After Mother! and The Whale, Aronofsky’s new movie centres on a washed-up alcoholic former baseball star’s encounters with a villainous underworld

The Roses review – dieback blights Colman and Cumberbatch remake

Both British actors are let down by the overly glossy, romcom-y sheen of this update of Warren Adler’s 1980s novel about a spectacularly toxic marriage

Criminally good: the return of the high-class crime flick

A wave of smart, original mysteries, thrillers and heist dramas arrives this autumn from auteurs including Paul Thomas Anderson, Spike Lee, Kelly Reichardt and Darren Aronofsky

The Thursday Murder Club review – Richard Osman bestseller provides solid, star-stuffed entertainment

There’s much to enjoy in this adaptation of Osman’s ingenious book, with Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie and Pierce Brosnan as the senior-citizen X-Men

Bambi: A Tale of Life in the Woods review – chilled-out, heartwarming baby deer drama

Actual wildlife footage with voiceover, rather than over-the-top CGI ‘live action’, gives charm to this family-friendly adaptation of the classic novel

Unmoored review – Scandi thriller delves into hidden truths of a toxic marriage

Atmospheric but unresolved drama pits a seedy academic against his ill-used wife, uneasily staying by him as he faces a rape charge

Super Charlie review – superhero baby yarn channels resentment of older kids at new arrivals

An adaptation of Swedish author Camilla Läckberg’s series explores an important theme but doesn’t compare to Pixar in fun or heart