Holy Cow review: Box-office smash powered along by youthful exuberance, earthy sex scenes and keen naturalism
Louise Courvoisier’s film about an orphaned teen on a mission to make a prize-winning wheel of cheese has been a huge hit in France
The Return: In Ralph Fiennes’s new film, a minimalist take on The Odyssey, even the loincloths are skimpy
Uberto Pasolini’s adaptation of the gory closing chapters of Homer’s epic poem eschews witches, monsters and goddesses in favour of PTSD
Four new films to see this week
Pleasant Irish comedy Four Mothers, plus Richard Burton’s origin story, a cracking British thriller, and a slacker vibe video game adaptation
A Minecraft Movie director Jared Hess: ‘On a big movie there’s so much to do, so much to pull off. You’re always dry-heaving’
Hess, the film-maker behind the 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite, on his love of Minecraft, working with Jack Black and making a big budget film
A Minecraft Movie review: Jason Momoa and Jack Black have a ball in a proudly silly family adventure
There’s plenty here for fans of Minecraft to recognise and enjoy
Mr Burton review: Absorbing Richard Burton origin story features a tremendous Harry Lawtey as the future Hollywood star
Lawtey doesn’t simply inhabit the role in Marc Evan’s fine biopic: he metamorphosises
John and Yoko’s One to One gig: ‘This was his only full-length concert after leaving The Beatles. It’s of huge significance’
Kevin Macdonald on his new film, based around the benefit event Lennon and Ono performed at in New York in 1972
La Cocina review: A kitchen drama that makes The Bear feel like listening to Enya in a garden centre
Alonso Ruizpalacios’s thrilling, sprawling drama is seldom less than operatic, with an emotional register to match
Misericordia review: We know whodunit in this Hitchcockian murder-comedy. But what’s everyone else up to?
This heavily decorated French film offers a heady and murky marriage of enigmatic motivations, sexual and otherwise
Novocaine star Amber Midthunder: ‘I have been so fortunate to work with actors like Liam Neeson. I nerd out with myself’
Playing a romantic role in a Hollywood movie may not be as exhilarating as killing a Predator in Prey, but it is, she says, a significant step forward
Four new films to see this week
Rachel Zegler the best thing in misfire updating of Snow White. Plus an Oscar-winning Latvian animation, a compelling Chinese domestic drama, and Robert De Niro in a superfluous sub-Goodfellas mob tale
Snow White review: Live-action reimagining of the classic 1937 film is a muddled mess
Most distracting flaws are rooted in problematic re-creation of animated material in ‘live action’ cinema
The Alto Knights review: Robert De Niro’s gimmicky mobster double act is an unnecessary distraction
There’s so much mobsplaining in Barry Levinson’s messy Mafia movie it feels like a Wikipedia entry
Away: After all those cheap and nasty children’s movies, here’s a gem
Film review: Gints Zilbalodis made this gorgeous feature-length animation entirely by himself
Four new films to see this week: Black Bag, Sister Midnight, Opus, The Electric State
Steven Sodergergh’s starry espionage caper is sleek and stylish. Plus an inventive Indian caper, an oddball popstar horror, and a blandly expensive sci-fi bust on Netflix