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Cosmos review – absurdism without the laughs

The last film by Andrzej Żuławski is a characteristically eccentric outing that descends into impenetrable gibberish

The Wave review – disaster, Norwegian-style

A tsunami devastates a picturesque fjord but it’s the human drama that counts

Valley of Love review – grief encounter

Huppert and Dépardieu get metaphysical as separated parents mourning their son

Sweet Bean review – sweet but not cloying

Japanese director Naomi Kawase serves up a subtle study of the relationship between an elderly woman and a young street food vendor

Up for Love review – French romcom falls short

Oscar winner Jean Dujardin plays a vertically challenged lover in a comedy that constantly misfires

Up for Love review – short on laughs, but not without charm

Jean Dujardin does his best as a handsome 4ft 5in architect who falls for a beautiful lawyer, but this middling comedy is more silly than funny

Sweet Bean review – Japanese foodie movie with an insipid flavour

Naomi Kawase’s film about the redemptive, life-affirming powers of a pancake recipe falls flat

The Commune review – the more the merrier?

A couple’s experiment with group living backfires in Thomas Vinterberg’s drama

Chevalier review – onboard bragging rights

A fishing trip soon turns in to a struggle for supremacy among six male friends in this Greek comedy

Chevalier review – middle-aged buddy movie gets lost at sea

Five men on a fishing trip indulge in a competition to rate each other’s lives in Athina Rachel Tsangari’s directionless black comedy

Danish director Thomas Vinterberg: ‘To some extent, I understand Brexit’

The film-maker on how growing up in a commune informed his new movie and his mixed feelings about the EU

Summertime review – potent romance

The story of a love affair between two women in 1970s France is full of powerful moments and dramatic choices

Baskin review – muddled horror

Turkish director Can Evrenol is adept at atmospherics, but his script gets lost in the dark

Men & Chicken review – a dark dramedy of family dysfunction

This Danish film steers the right side of wackiness in its tale of two strange brothers meeting their estranged extended family

High-Rise; London Has Fallen; The Witch; Truth; Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story); Fox and His Friends; Chinese Roulette; Brahman Naman – review

In the current climate, JG Ballard’s tall story seems horribly relevant, while a 17th-century horror is scarier still

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