Birth of the Dragon review – unconvincing Bruce Lee origin myth
The romanticised touches don’t help this account of a private bout involving the martial arts star, pre-fame, in San Francisco
Detective Chinatown 2 review – wacky slapstick and goofy hijinks
Detectives from around the world descend on New York’s Chinatown in a broad action-comedy sequel from Chen Sicheng
You Have No Idea How Much I Love You review – secrets and lies
This documentary about an emotional therapy session with Polish psychotherapist Bogdan de Barbaro is compellingly real … up to a point
Fifty Shades Freed ties up top spot at UK box office
The third instalment takes the franchise over $1bn worldwide, while The Greatest Showman appears set to overtake La La Land as biggest-grossing original musical
Loveless review – a lost boy in a toxic world
A child’s disappearance is the catalyst for a savage indictment of family breakdown in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s mesmerising, Oscar-nominated film
Bergman: why are the great director’s women all tragi-sexual goddesses?
Ingmar Bergman’s spellbinding films made his female stars immortal. But they weren’t all grateful. Could this famously manipulative genius have survived in the #MeToo era?
Makala review – a father’s perilous quest beautifully captured
Kabwita Kasongo plays a version of himself in a sympathetic account of his hardscrabble existence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Nothing Factory review – workers fight asset strippers in enigmatic epic
Pedro Pinho’s sprawling, deadpan drama about a Portuguese lift factory threatened with shutdown is finally evasive with acted with force
Padmaavat review – Indian drama that sparked riots is a fabulous tale of love and plunder
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s extravagant medieval epic, which has been the subject of controversy in its home country, makes for a gloriously stirring spectacle
A Woman’s Life review – gauzy frocks and polite feminism
Stéphane Brizé’s period drama trots along like a reliable chestnut mare, tugging steadily behind it the tale of a sensitive heiress who marries a rotter
Mukkabaaz (The Brawler) review – Bollywood boxing epic takes on caste injustice
Vineet Kumar Singh stars as a low-caste boxer fighting for respect in Anurag Kashyap’s heavy-hitting social critique
Glory review – black humour and fatalism with a stiff shot of misanthropy
No good deed goes unpunished in this lugubrious realist fable about a Bulgarian railway linesman who hands in some cash he finds scattered on the tracks
Rey review – dreamlike drama about a man who would be king
Seven years in the making, video artist Niles Atallah’s hallucinatory film follows a French explorer who was crowned by the Mapuche in Chile
Prowling panthers, paranormal spies and vengeful ice-skaters: must-see movies of 2018
The Black Panther roars, Matt Damon shrinks, Aardman go stone age and Jennifer Lawrence takes spying into a new dimension – we preview the best cinema of the new year
The 50 top films of 2017 in the UK: No 4 Elle
The magnificent Isabelle Huppert brings gravitas and credibility to Paul Verhoeven’s controversial and darkly comic revenge thriller, which resonates all the more after recent Hollywood revelations