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Ultraman: Rising review – endearing kaiju animation battles the monster that is parenting

Appealing superhero film saddles a kaiju fighter with an orphaned infant, who brings challenges to test supernanny’s domestic mettle

Àma Gloria review – amazing performances in sensitive drama about a kid and her nanny

Six year old Louise Mauroy-Panzani is wonderful as Cléo, strongly bonded to her carer Gloria, who has to leave her

Four Little Adults review – polyamory drama shows a Finnish couple working through their issues

Alma Pöysti stands out as a feminist politician in this irritatingly cosy portrait of a very complicated relationship worked out all too easily

Deep Sea review – underwater restaurant yarn cooks up dazzlingly psychedelic images

Kaleidoscopic visual overload is on the menu in this chaotic animation from the director of Chinese blockbuster Monkey King: Hero Is Back

Cold review – theatrically evocative folk-tale treatment of the pain of miscarriage

A man spins a story in a doctor’s waiting room, sparking a fairy tale of loss and desperation

Do Aur Do Pyaar (Two Plus Two Is Love) review – refreshingly nonjudgmental infidelity romcom

Vidya Balan shines in this witty remake that sees a married couple, both cheating on each other, on the verge of breaking up

‘My sons hated it’ … Shakira says Barbie film is ‘emasculating’

The Colombian pop star – and mother of two boys – disliked the global blockbuster, saying its message robs men of chance to ‘protect and provide’

‘Mum knew what was going on’: Brigitte Höss on living at Auschwitz, in the Zone of Interest family

Her father was Rudolf Höss, the camp’s commandant. He was arrested by the Jewish great-uncle of the writer Thomas Harding, to whom Brigitte gave this, her final interview – and confession

Motherboard review – enthralling smartphone self-portrait of family life

Victoria Mapplebeck’s documentary stitches 20 years’ worth of footage into a home video love letter to her son, whose whole life so far is observed

Sharing childhood faves with my kids has its ups and downs – but I know it takes them places Netflix or Disney won’t

Helping children detach from the zeitgeist feels important in our algorithmic age. Branching out is hard when there’s always more of what you already love

Our Body review – a brave, unblinking, hospital’s-eye view of women’s health

Documentarist Claire Simon films women, including herself, receiving care in a women’s health, obstetrics and gynaecology ward at a Parisian hospital

‘Hypnotically terrible’: readers on 15 so-bad-they’re-brilliant Christmas movies

Whether you want to watch the story of a killer shark, a royal romance or a long-eared donkey, these films have got you covered

How Nicholas Winton saved 669 children (and counting) from the Holocaust: ‘He became everybody’s grandfather’

Four generations owe their lives to the man who brought trainloads of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia to Britain in 1939. The original refugees remember the Kindertransport – and the shy stockbroker who got them on it

‘I left the cinema, walked home and announced I was moving’: films that made people emigrate

If The Lord of the Rings had you yearning for New Zealand, or Julia Roberts on a bike made you fall in love with Bali, you’re not alone. But did you grab your passport and start packing? Meet the people who did

Haunted by past horror: the powerful film about a mother and daughter in the Gorbals

She won an award for the play Expensive Shit. Now Adura Onashile has made Girl, her debut film about a mother and daughter facing violence and racism in Glasgow. How autobiographical is it?

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