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Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream review – strangely moving movie-memoir

A depressed man catalogues his five-a-day film habit in this grandiose but unflinching collation of narrated clips

The Spy review – a showbiz star goes undercover in the Third Reich

A little-known slice of history is given a rousing retelling in this thriller about a Scandinavian film star’s infiltration mission

Werner Herzog: ‘I’m fascinated by trash TV. The poet must not avert his eyes’

At 77 and holed up in lockdown, the veteran director and latterday actor shows no signs of slowing down or accepting any limitations

The Ground Beneath My Feet review – creepy phone calls dial up the fear

An executive’s important business trip is threatened by unnerving family news in an eerie, elegant psychological drama

The Dead and the Others review – shimmering story of tribal culture

In this mysterious docudrama about a village in north-eastern Brazil, a young man hears the voice of his dead father at a moonlit jungle waterfall

The Day After I’m Gone review – stylish study of a grieving father and daughter

A bereaved vet takes his daughter on a healing road trip after she tries to kill herself, in Nimrod Eldar’s intelligent drama

Gulabo Sitabo review – mildewed mansion drama bustles and crumbles

Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana star in Shoojit Sircar’s puzzling tale of class and property management

Citizens of the World review – Bulgaria here we come! Or not …

Three Italian men plot a move to the east to eke out meagre pensions in Gianni Di Gregorio’s sad, sweet and slightly flimsy drama

‘The older I get, the less I fear’: meet the Italian Larry David

A decade after his two much-loved comedies about the vicissitudes of ageing, director Gianni Di Gregorio explains why, against his own expectations, he had to make another

David Baddiel: ‘Kids have a better sense of humour than they used to’

The author and comedian on his lockdown viewing, including a Tiger King binge, and why today’s greatest screen creations are animated

Only the Animals review – audacious web of love and strangeness

Dominik Moll’s thriller charts an unhappily married woman’s terrifying fate and her mysterious connections to five other people

Around the World When You Were My Age review – going nowhere fast

A father’s travel photos form the basis of an anodyne trip down memory lane in Aya Koretzky’s meandering essay-film

Krabi, 2562 review – mystery and mysticism in the Thai tropics

Cinemas, cavemen and a missing woman all form parts of the plot in this surreal sojourn between the real and spiritual worlds

Olla review – mail-order bride ruffles feathers in French suburbia

Romanna Lobach is the magnetic protagonist of this half-hour short about a mum-and-son household rocked by a new arrival

Babette’s Feast: Julian Baggini savours the ultimate lockdown movie

With its moments of low-key culinary joy, the Danish gem offers a vital recipe for unity in times of austere hardship

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