Wendy Ide's film of the week
Films of the week reviewed by the Observer's film critic Wendy Ide
Lee review – Kate Winslet is remarkable as model turned war photographer Lee Miller
Winslet strongly conveys Miller’s tough-broad magnetism in this sobering, visually striking drama by cinematographer turned director Ellen Kuras
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review – Tim Burton has fun with pleasingly idiosyncratic sequel
The director’s long-imagined follow-up to his 1988 cult movie Beetlejuice revels in some gleefully silly moments while narrowly avoiding that dated feeling
Sing Sing review – Colman Domingo is magnetic in moving real-life US prison drama
The US actor heads a cast largely made up of former inmates in Greg Kwedar’s low-key tale about the redemptive power of theatre
Between the Temples review – bittersweet screwball comedy with shades of Harold and Maude
Playing a bereaved synagogue cantor and his former primary school music teacher, Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane light up Nathan Silver’s endearing odd couple tale
Alien: Romulus review – thrillingly gruesome new instalment gets a shot of young blood
The ever-impressive Cailee Spaeny heads a cast of fresh-faced alien fodder in Fede Álvarez’s propulsive sci-fi horror, which favours horror over storyline
Babes review – Pamela Adlon’s caustically funny pregnancy comedy
Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau fizz in the Better Things creator’s directorial debut, a rapid-fire riff on pregnancy, motherhood and female friendship
About Dry Grasses review – rich, engrossing Turkish epic with a twist
A village teacher is accused of inappropriate behaviour in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s handsome, beautifully performed, three-and-a-half-hour fable
Janet Planet review – Annie Baker’s tender, perceptive mother-daughter drama
Julianne Nicholson and newcomer Zoe Ziegler are a dream team in the Pulitzer prize-winning US playwright’s richly cinematic film debut
Longlegs review – Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage grip in brooding horror thriller
Monroe plays a dogged, antisocial FBI agent on the trail of Cage’s occult serial killer in the latest buzzy, atmospheric film from Osgood Perkins
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F review – Eddie Murphy’s megawatt charisma lights up creaking sequel
Reprising his role as lovable undercover cop Axel Foley, the actor – and some full-on car-chase carnage – can’t disguise a plot several decades past its sell-by date in debut director Mark Molloy’s slickly packaged action comedy
Kinds of Kindness review – Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with Emma Stone for overlong but admirable triptych
Stone, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe head the cast in the Poor Things director’s odd three-part study of control whose central idea proves elusive
Green Border review – an angry and urgent masterpiece about Europe’s migrant crisis
Agnieszka Holland’s vital drama about refugees stranded between Belarus and Poland could hardly be more topical
Sasquatch Sunset review – brilliant bigfoot oddity is unexpectedly moving
The Zellner brothers follow a family of grunting sasquatches played by Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough in a wonderful one-off
The Dead Don’t Hurt review – Vicky Krieps is a woman of substance in Viggo Mortensen’s offbeat western
The actor-director’s second film behind the camera is a quirky spin on the genre given true grit by its magnetic heroine
The Beast review – Léa Seydoux mesmerises in wildly ambitious sci-fi romance
Bertrand Bonello’s head-spinning Henry James adaptation set in 1910 Paris, 2014 LA and an AI-controlled 2044 casts a dreamlike spell
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review – renegade warrior Anya Taylor-Joy ignites thunderous action prequel
George Miller’s world-building spectacle is an assault on the senses that’s given a human heart by its remarkable star
IF review – imaginary friends reunited in a kid-pleasing live-action fantasy
Actor-director John Krasinski’s animated tale of an anxious tween and her make-believe buddies is not in Pixar’s league, but it boasts a heartfelt sweetness and an engaging young star
Love Lies Bleeding review – Kristen Stewart keeps it real in deliciously lurid outlaw romance
Rose Glass’s follow-up to her acclaimed Saint Maud is a scorchingly sexy, darkly violent tale of a gym manager’s love affair with a bodybuilder
Challengers review – Zendaya holds court in absurdly sexy three-way tennis romance
Luca Guadagnino’s sizzling, sharply scripted drama, co-starring Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, is such fun it’s almost indecent
Sometimes I Think About Dying review – Daisy Ridley excels as shy office worker in offbeat comedy
Rachel Lambert’s perceptive tale of a loner with a vividly imaginative inner life proves an unexpected showcase for the Star Wars actor’s talents
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