Atlantics review – poetic Dakar love story
A prosaic script lets down Mati Diop’s visually arresting, ghostly first feature
The woke undead: how zombie movies are taking on racial politics
A new wave of horror films are reviving the zombie’s African roots to offer modern-day reflections on slavery and migration
A little rain must fall: the tragic secret of a musical movie masterpiece
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, a life-enhancing 60s sensation, is about to enrapture a new generation of filmgoers
I Lost My Body review – hand on heart, you’ll love this…
A disembodied hand searches for its former owner in this haunting French gem that signals the arrival of a major new talent in animation
La Belle Époque review – overegged French time-travel comedy
Daniel Auteuil is a man disillusioned with life and marriage who gets a chance to go back in time in this Charlie Kaufman-lite saccharine comedy-drama
Heimat Is a Space in Time review – epic journey into Germany’s dark past
Thomas Heise’s four-hour documentary draws on the journals of his own family to construct a powerful, agonising history
Permission review – female footballer pays penalty in Iran
The husband of a woman due to play a match abroad refuses her permission to travel in a fictionalised version of a true story
Cattle Hill review – udderly bewildering rock’n’roll cows
A heifer with dreams of stardom turns to her retired rock star dad for advice in this strange, candy-coloured family animation
Someone, Somewhere review – slow-burn Parisian therapy romance
The meet-cute is neatly postponed in this entertaining story of two next-door neighbours, both seeing therapists and looking for love
Gabriel review – plucky boxing story pulls its punches
The tale of a desperate young fighter in Lisbon features a soulful performance but is dogged by boxing movie cliches
Campo review – salute to a beekeeping band of brothers
This elegant documentary about a bucolic Portuguese military base offers surprising glimpses of the soldiers’ off-duty pursuits
By the Grace of God review – Ozon’s incendiary Catholic Church child-abuse drama
François Ozon’s painful, sombre story of an ongoing child sexual abuse scandal in France is strongest when it foregrounds the victims’ themselves
Darkness Visible review – mystery and murder on the streets of Kolkata
A son hunts for his mother after her unexplained return to her home town in this intriguingly inventive horror story
Corpus Christi review – from parole to the priesthood
This smart plot-twister about an ex-con who takes up the identity of a new priest sidesteps a soppy trajectory to land on a much bleaker, thoughtful note
Beanpole review – Russians pay a bitter price for survival
Kantemir Balagov brilliantly deploys shock tactics to weigh the horrors of peace against the trauma of war in 1945 Leningrad