The Way We Talk review – sensitive drama explores deafness via three friends’ infectious warmth

Each character uses a different method of communication in Adam Wong’s drama, which benefits from the chemistry of its lead performers

Art for Everybody review – the dark side of Thomas Kinkade, ‘painter of light’

The extraordinarily popular painter of kitsch American scenes struggled with addiction and depression, as this documentary with access to his previously unseen works shows

Dragonfly review – haunting, genre-defying drama of lonely city living

Brenda Blethyn and Andrea Riseborough, along with a very alarming dog, are superb as two neighbours thrown together by their neglected circumstances

The Golden Spurtle review – a cosy celebration of porridge and its champions

This Australian documentary about the world porridge championships, held each year in a Scottish village, is as wholesome and nourishing as its oat-stirring subjects

Straw review – Taraji P Henson rises above Tyler Perry’s tortured Netflix thriller

The Oscar nominated actor gives a powerhouse performance as a woman pushed to the edge but the punishing film around her does a disservice

The Life of Chuck review – unmoving Stephen King schmaltz

Tom Hiddleston plays a man who might be the centre of the universe in a film of often effective parts that never really come together

Predator: Killer of Killers review – animated anthology of Arnie’s old antagonists

Forty years on from the original, the Predators are back in Viking times, samurai-era Japan and second world war US – but you can’t help think it would be better as live action

Come Fall in Love: The DDLJ Musical review – loud, kitsch and joyous

Thirty years after its release, the Bollywood blockbuster is back, this time on stage with a multiracial take on the diaspora tale

Ballerina review – Ana de Armas racks up the kills as she pirouettes into John Wick spin-off

De Armas is fun as a feisty assassin trained in ballet and martial arts, combining delicacy and violence in her quest for vengeance, with a cameo from Keanu. She doesn’t wear a tutu to fill goons with lead though

Showgirls review – Paul Verhoeven’s kitsch-classic softcore erotic drama is pure bizarreness

A beautiful drifter tries to make it in the strip clubs of Las Vegas in this absurd film – now a cult favourite thanks to its maniacal acting and directing

The Quatermass Xperiment review – Hammer’s first sci-fi hit is brash, watchable B-movie

A spacecraft crashes back to Earth in an English field in this BBC series spinoff from the soon-to-be-legendary house of horror

Goebbels and the Führer review – private life of propagandist shows grotesque heart of Nazism

Joachim Lang’s bleak film shows a preening Goebbels and a careworn Hitler as they battle to convince the German public, and themselves, they will win the war

Bogieville review – trailer-park vampire thriller is filled with prosthetic fangs

Director Sean Cronin also acts, but the real star is teenager Poppie Jae Hughes – which doesn’t say much for its more senior players

Big Star: The Nick Skelton Story review – story of showjumping’s comeback king spares the horses

Documentary charting the British Olympian’s career including his return from breaking his neck is for equestrian fans only due to tight-lipped interviews

The Encampments review – account of pro-Palestine student protests overtaken by events

Documentary on protests of April 2024, when students set up an outdoor camp at the Ivy League school, is fascinating but much has been superseded by the arrest of student organiser Mahmoud Khalil after the re-election of Trump