Detective Chinatown 1900 review – blockbusting Chinese franchise goes back in time

Prequel focuses on xenophobia in turn-of-the-century San Francisco with surprising wit and silliness

Before Sunrise review – Richard Linklater’s brief encounter defies romantic convention

Undistracted by smartphones in 1995, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy talk away one night in Vienna without resolution but with huge charm

Saturday Night review – unbearably self-indulgent sketch of an iconic comedy show

The story of the first episode of Saturday Night Live is an exhaustingly frantic, dull dramedy that even the show’s biggest superfan would struggle to watch

The Tasting review – French midlife romcom takes its leads guzzling fine wines

Easygoing tale has Hortense meet Jacques while buying a bottle at his shop, but the real star is the picturesque setting of Troyes

Atropia review – military roleplaying satire is a frustrating jumble of ideas

Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner are participants in an odd exercise in a debut feature that never figures out what it should be

I’ve Never Wanted Anyone More review – Goethe’s Werther remade as charming contempo romcom

An 18th-century love triangle relocated to the well-to-do of modern Toronto is big on banter and farce even if real passion is sometimes lacking

Oh, Hi! review – promising romantic comedy takes awkward turn into farce

A couple’s weekend away turns into chaos when they find out they’re not on the same page, a clever concept that soon loses steam

‘Wonderfully sentimental’: why Defending Your Life is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers highlighting their favourite feelgood watches is a tribute to Albert Brooks’s 1991 fantasy

‘I was 25 and done with playing a teenager’: Asa Butterfield on Sex Education, stage fright and his ‘terrifying’ one-man play

The actor was eight when he landed his first movie, and spent his teens working with the likes of Martin Scorsese and Harrison Ford. Now he’s making his theatre debut, in a role that mirrors his own experiences of big time rejection

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You review – Rose Byrne is a knockout in anxious dark comedy

The often under-utilised actor gives a monumental performance as a mother on the edge in an exhausting spiral of a movie

Twinless review – dark, inventive comedy takes an unexpected path

James Sweeney’s tightrope-mastering mix of genres and tones is an incredibly effective feat, veering from funny to creepy to devastatingly sad

‘An unmitigated joy’: why Married to the Mob is my feelgood movie

The next entry in our series of writers recommending their favourite comfort films is a tribute to Jonathan Demme’s zesty gangster comedy

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

Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics

Adam McKay says the Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio-starring satire resonates with a widespread feeling of being deceived by government and media

Back in Action review – Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx slum in Netflix comedy

Combined star power only takes this overfamiliar caper so far, let down by an unfunny script and a lack of originality