Catching Dust review – urbanites and hillbillies clash in confident desert noir
Stuart Gatt’s adventurous debut pitches meathead Clyde and his downtrodden wife Geena against city-dwelling newcomers Andy and Amaya
Alone No More review – touching shaggy dog tale about a stray mutt who rescues a lonely man
Newly retired Kai is a miserable grump who lives alone, until he adopts Piggy, in this honest Hong Kong take on family dynamics and suicide
Panda Bear in Africa review – bear meets dragon in cross between Lion King and Kung Fu Panda
A panda travels to Africa to save his kidnapped dragon bestie in this bland, animated attempt to imitate some distinguished predecessors
The Girl in the Pool review – spectacularly schlocky hide-a-body murder mystery
Freddie Prinze Jr plays a middle-aged man-boy trying to cover up a death in this thriller that may be saved by the fact that it knows it’s ridiculously silly
My Stolen Planet review – home-movie bulletins unearths Iran’s forbidden past
Exiled artist Farahnaz Sharifi uses old Super 8 family movies to contrast life before and after the 1979 revolution
Ladies Only review – striking account of sisterhood’s intricacies on the Mumbai metro
Shot in stunning black and white, a tapestry of faces and voices beautifully lays bare the hidden subtleties of Indian women’s emotional lives
The Girl with the Needle review – horribly compelling true crime period drama
A factory worker in 1920s Copenhagen struggles to survive at all costs in Magnus von Horn’s saga featuring a remarkable central performance from Vic Carmen Sonne
Architecton review – poetic study of humankind’s bricks-and-mortar impact on the Earth
Victor Kossakovsky’s follow-up to Gunda is a gorgeously shot reverie about our use of materials such as stone and concrete
It’s Raining Men review – not even Laure Calamy can carry off this French sex comedy
The Call My Agent! star plays a dentist trying to inject some excitement into her dismal love life in Caroline Vignal’s frisky romp
Babygirl review – a bold Nicole Kidman is the draw in this lightweight erotic thriller
Kidman does her best with flimsy material as a married boss having a fling with her intern in Halina Reijn’s boardroom provocation
A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin spar in sublimely bittersweet Holocaust tour movie
The stars play Jewish American cousins touring Poland in honour of their grandmother in Eisenberg’s sharp, highly personal comedy boasting an Oscar-tipped performance from Culkin
Maria review – Angelina Jolie excels as tragic Callas
Jolie goes full-blown diva in Pablo Larraín’s reverential portrait of the great soprano – a thoroughly operatic affair steeped in hauteur and grief
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera review – Gerard Butler’s fun, flirty action bromance sequel
There’s an intriguing chemistry between the actor and the charming O’Shea Jackson Jr in another brash yet hugely entertaining Heat-aping thriller
Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger review – Rory Kinnear files a solid return as the bloke from Burnley
The businessman with a heart takes on crooked payday lenders in this predictable sequel that gets by on its heartfelt performances
Maria review – Angelina Jolie’s Callas commands the screen as a great diva in decline
Pablo Larraín’s strange and mordant drama portrays Callas’s haughty struggle as her voice begins to fail but her stardom remains undimmed