Invitation to a Murder review – florist-detective leads crime yarn that out-cosies Agatha Christie
Mischa Barton is the unexpectedly canny flower-bothering sleuth here in a not very mysterious costume thriller
Detained review – Abbie Cornish is best thing in twisty noir that flirts with ridiculousness
Cornish intrigues in an implausible thriller about a woman who wakes up in a police station with no memory of how she got there
A Man and a Camera review – doorstep prank movie is pass-agg psychological study
Film-maker Guido Hendrikx goes house-to-house in a Dutch suburb, ringing doorbells and then mutely filming – we see what people will say and do to fill the silence
The Six Triple Eight review – true story of heroic black women’s battalion fails to deliver
Kerry Washington is the saving grace in Tyler Perry’s plodding drama about the US army corps tasked with clearing piles of undelivered second world war mail
Mufasa: The Lion King review – technically dazzling Disney origin story lacks soul
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins’s all-action tale boasts uncanny CGI effects and songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, but the screenplay is schmaltzy and derivative
Film: Wendy Ide’s 10 best of 2024
From Jonathan Glazer’s unforgettable view of Auschwitz to Sean Baker’s profane Cinderella story, daring directors proved there’s substance in style
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl review – the Aardman duo’s return is an absolute delight
Almost 20 years since their last outing, the cheese-loving inventor and his ever-dependable dog resume battle with a feathered fiend in this precision-tooled caper
Dead Hard review – yippee ki-why bother?
Hands Grubby takes over Nakablowme Tower in a slapdash camp parody of Die Hard
Your Fault review – bizarre and wooden step-sibling romance
Sequel to unaccountably popular Amazon Prime hit finds the same oldsters still out to stop the forbidden young lovers necking in glamorous locations
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review – Jim Carrey supplies laughs and energy for hedgehog threequel
Carrey’s Dr Robotnik is the best thing in elaborate third-instalment shenanigans that are pretty good fan-service fun
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl review – an unmissable, ingenious Christmas treat
Our favourite animated heroes return, facing arch nemesis Feathers McGraw alongside a malfunctioning AI gnome – it’s an exciting, ingenious and utterly timeless joy
Mufasa: The Lion King review – storytelling takes pride of place in punchy origin tale
This heartfelt prequel to the 1994 classic recounts the dramatic backstory of King Mufasa but is scarred by a forgettable musical score
Dolphin Boy review – human baby lives under the sea in watery kids animation
A boy raised underwater by dolphins goes in search of his human mother on dry land in Mohammad Kheirandish’s incoherent fable
Standing Up review – autism gets sappy treatment in didactic family road movie
Familiar worries about how to raise a neurodiverse child are played out with empathy but little subtlety
Nosferatu: The Real Story review – insightful probe into a vampire classic
Robin Bextor’s documentary about FW Murnau’s 1922 silent masterpiece makes some sharp points but leaves noticeable holes