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Hello Stranger review – interactive thriller puts remote worker in trial-by-internet

A lonely man is forced into a series of deadly games by a masked online sadist in this choose your own adventure – but bouts of paper-scissor-stones fail to engage

Mountainhead review – tech bros face off in Jesse Armstrong’s post-Succession uber-wealth satire

Weapons-grade zingers come thick and fast in this chamber piece about four plutocrats on a weekend in a lodge that goes awry when the planet descends into chaos

The Mastermind review – Josh O’Connor is world’s worst art thief in Kelly Reichardt’s unlikely heist movie

Reichardt’s quietist, observational style is unexpectedly successful at creating a super-naturalistic depiction of an art gallery robbery

The Young Mother’s Home review – outstanding return to form for the Dardenne brothers

Teen mums are taught how to take care of their babies or prepare them for adoption amid drug addiction, mental illness and family conflict in this poignant, compassionate work of unforced social realism

Fear Street: Prom Queen review – disappointing Netflix teen slasher

After a surprisingly effective trilogy of horrors based on the RL Stine novels, a return to the throwback franchise is a frustratingly inert letdown

Resurrection review – fascinating phantasmagoria is wild riddle about new China and an old universe

In Bi Gan’s ambitious alternate reality, where humans can live indefinitely, a reincarnating dissident dreamer travels through history in different guises

Fountain of Youth review – Guy Ritchie’s Indiana Jones knock-off is a soulless misadventure

Ritchie’s derivative yarn whisks John Krasinski off to picturesque spots on an uninspired search for treasure and excitement – neither of which arrive

Woman and Child review – drama of rage and pain in the Iranian marriage market

Saeed Roustaee’s new film takes aim at a slippery, entitled male who thinks he can lord it over a widow he plans to marry

Yes review – a fierce satire of Israel’s ruling classes, radioactive with political pain

Nadav Lapid’s brilliant, showy set-pieces present a caricature of decadence and heartlessness in a society haunted by 7 October

Romería review – Carla Simón’s gripping pilgrimage tackles Aids, parents and the legacy of secrets

A young woman arrives in a Spanish coastal city to meet the family of her dead father, who are hiding information about his life and death, in Simón’s distinctive drama

Sentimental Value review – Stellan Skarsgård is an egomaniac director in act of ancestor worship

Joachim Trier’s entertaining drama sees Norwegian auteur-on-the-slide Skarsgård putting his showbiz family through the wringer in the service of his fading career

The History of Sound review – Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor romance is full-bodied but tin-eared

A love story of two folk song aficionados in the early days of recorded music is told with tiresomely mournful awe at its own sadness

The Six Billion Dollar Man review – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s rise, fall and limbo

Focusing on the rogue’s gallery of hypocrites and crooks surrounding him, Assange himself is in the background of a pretty definitive examination

A Private Life review – Jodie Foster is a sleuthing shrink in French-language Hitchcockian mystery

Foster plays a psychoanalyst who suspects her client may not have killed herself, and sets out to investigate with ex-husband Daniel Auteuil

Burden of Dreams review – on-location account of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo is a gruelling delight

A rerelease of the documentary about the German film-maker’s operatic adventure in the Peruvian jungle is a compelling portrait of an artist obsessed

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