The Hand of God review – Paolo Sorrentino exposes his childhood trauma
Going back to Naples and the disaster that changed his life, The Great Beauty director evokes his adolescence with bawdy vigour
Parallel Mothers review – Almodóvar delivers Venice film festival a little bundle of joy
Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz open the festival with a boisterous, warm-bodied swapped-at-birth melodrama about two single women who meet in a maternity ward
Shorta review – Danish urban thriller gets the heart pumping
Two cops are stranded in hostile territory when an act of police brutality triggers a riot in this slick action film
Visit, or Memories and Confessions review – Manoel de Oliveira’s remarkable testament
The Portuguese director’s stately cine-memoir about his singular life was shot nearly four decades ago but withheld at his request until his death, aged 106
Souad review – teen life in the modern Middle East
Two Egyptian sisters experience the highs and lows of a permissive lifestyle in Ayten Amin’s sensitive drama
Streaming: The Father and other films about dementia
Florian Zeller’s heart-rending film The Father is the latest in a spate of recent works tackling the condition and its effects on the family
West Side Story, a Sopranos prequel and Bond: the best films to see in autumn 2021
Spielberg revamps Bernstein, young Tony is lured by the mob, Phyllida Lloyd tackles spousal abuse, Top Gun returns – and Daniel Craig calls time on 007 with bangs galore
Underground review – mine explosion disaster film digs deeper than most
French-Canadian director Sophie Dupuis puts human drama ahead of the action in this naturalistic, character-driven film
Wildland review – Sidse Babett Knudsen excels in lean, mean Danish drama
This tense thriller showcases Knudsen as a fearsome matriarch who adopts her orphaned niece – but not without a price
The Cloud in Her Room review – exquisite slow-burn study of a quarter-life crisis
Chinese film-maker Zheng Lu Xinyuan makes her debut with a dreamlike distillation of a young woman’s alienation from family and friends
Beasts Clawing at Straws review – jet-black comedy in arch Korean thriller
A long-suffering sauna worker finds a bag stuffed full of cash in a crime caper with perfectly pitched performances
True Stories: Spaces review – impressive short docs from folk horror to a Lebanese marvel
This short film collection from the True Story platform ranges across continents to look at how we interact with our environments
The Fever review – dreamy film about a mysterious illness in Brazil
Maya Da-Rin’s subtle, poetic debut engages with the hidden lives of the Desana people of Brazil
All Hands on Deck review – fresh and funny French holiday romance
A romantic surprise has unexpected consequences in a gentle comedy channelling Éric Rohmer crossed with Carry on Camping
The Psychic review – Lucio Fulci’s ravishing giallo thriller with nasty taste for violence
Jennifer O’Neill stars as a fabulously dressed clairvoyant in Fulci’s revived 1977 thriller that looks amazing, even if the sexual politics are dodgy