Calamity Jane review – mighty pretty music but this western could be wilder A meandering musical based on the Doris Day movie delivers the sure-shot showtunes in style with a whipcracking lead in Carrie Hope Fletcher
Stray Dog/High and Low review – Kurosawa lifts crime drama to astonishing new peaks Drawing on hardboiled US fiction, as American film had fed on his own Seven Samurai, the director brings unforgettable intensity to his anxious noir
Presence review – Soderbergh’s ghost’s-eye movie plays it cool with an unhappy family A judging spectre watches as depression and heavy drinking befall Lucy Liu’s home in an intelligent film full of uncanny, sudden-chill moments
Rave on for the Avon review – Bristol wild swimmers lead a joyful protest campaign Lovely documentary records the battle to protect a stretch of the polluted river and the beautiful bathing site it is defending
Up the River With Acid review – intimate, abstract portrait of a father’s dementia Harald Hutter sets his documentary in his parents shabby-chic home, a metaphor for his ageing academic father’s loosening threads of reality
Into the Deep review – Richard Dreyfuss brings the meaning to smugglers v sharks thriller Full of cliche-riddled dialogue and bizarre flashbacks, this basic effort is only saved by a tacked-on lecture from Jaws star Dreyfuss
Blackwater Lane review – medieval mansion is the star in haunted house stalker thriller A teacher becomes increasingly paranoid as she roams around her fabulous home and gardens in this flimsy adaptation of BA Paris’s novel The Breakdown
Grafted review – Face/Off-style skin-graft horror has layers of punky attitude A Chinese student arrives in New Zealand and continues her father’s experimental research in Sasha Rainbow’s cosmetic chiller
Dead Before They Wake review – brutal grooming-gang thriller marries mawkishness and bloodlust Seemingly inspired by the Rotherham child rape scandal, Nathan Shepka’s film has both a streak of sentimentality and an appetite for violence
Sunray: Fallen Soldier review – staple guns pressed into service in brutal payback thriller When a demobbed British marine goes after his daughter’s killers, his old comrades pile in to beef up the relentless gunfights
Mother Father Sister Brother Frank review – frantic night of murder, mayhem and family bonding This tale of nice ordinary folk doing bad things is a cartoonishly grisly comedy with a hint of Fargo, though without the off-kilter humour
K-Family Affairs review – childhood memories act as chronicle of South Korean democracy Nam Arum’s debut documentary weaves intimate home videos and family stories into an interrogation of the aftermath of Chun Doo-hwan’s dictatorship
Wolf Man review – Julia Garner-starring backwoods horror lacks bite Garner and Christopher Abbott excel in an intriguing thriller that struggles to sustain its shock factor
Here review – a de-aged Tom Hanks and Robin Wright grow old together in mawkish tear-jerker Shot from a fixed camera point, Robert Zemickis’s nonlinear tale of a single plot of land from prehistoric times to the present day feels very long indeed
William Tell review – Claes Bang misses the target in action-packed portrayal of the Swiss folk hero The adventure sequences are the core attraction in this patchy tale of the plucky Helvetian marksman