Lola

Don't overlook Jacques Demy's Lola as a glory of the French New Wave, says Philip French

The Horde

A cops v criminals v zombies bloodfest. Sample dialogue: 'Urrgh!' and 'Arrgh!'. By Xan Brooks

Gaspar Noé: ‘What’s the problem?’

Gaspar Noé knows pornography. And shooting a sex scene from inside the vagina isn't pornographic. Steve Rose hears about the real boundary being pushed in the incendiary director's new film

Alamar

A brief, beautiful documentary follows the life of a Mexican fisherman and his son, writes Philip French

Metropolis

Fritz Lang's 1927 masterpiece Metropolis is greater still in this newly restored version, writes Philip French

Metropolis

Fritz Lang's sci-fi classic is restored with extra footage – and emerges as an eternally prescient and relevant film about the fetishisation of modern technology, writes Peter Bradshaw

Alamar

This gentle Mexican film about father-son bonding is rapturous in its appreciation of an idyllic fishing community, but curiously naive about human relationships, writes Peter Bradshaw

A dance of death at the Venice film festival

Natalie Portman is superb as a troubled ballet dancer, Robert Rodriguez gets trashy, and a Jerusalem-set drama provides this year's turkey at the Venice film festival. By Peter Bradshaw

22 Bullets

Philip French enjoys a tough French thriller about a principled gangster who survives an assassination attempt

Certified Copy

Abbas Kiarostami's new movie is a stylish and mysterious study of relationships, with powerful central performances, writes Phillip French

Perestroika

Sarah Turner's challenging art film is a stream of consciousness memory-jogger, says Peter Bradshaw

Certified Copy

Juliette Binoche stars in the first film Abbas Kiarostami has made outside Iran. Peter Bradshaw finds it very odd indeed