A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (15)
(Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014, US) Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh. 101 mins
Lashings of style and just enough substance, too, with this Persian-American vampire indie, which strikes a stylised, laidback pose somewhere between Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch, Sin City and Persepolis. Stalking, or skateboarding, the streets in her black chador, this “girl” is both victim and predator - an alienated misfit in a town where addicts, gangsters, Madonna posters and Farsi post-punk are equally at home. Not much happens there, admittedly, but there’s no place like it.
Tomorrowland: A World Beyond (12A)
(Brad Bird, 2015, US) Britt Robertson, George Clooney, Hugh Laurie. 130 mins
A family Disney adventure that whizzes along in a blur of inventive action, good humour and retro-futuristic design, as Clooney and co hone in on the mysterious secret world, which holds the key to the future.
Poltergeist (15)
(Gil Kenan, 2015, US) Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jared Harris. 94 mins
Still a few horror classics left to put through the remake mill. This one at least has star names and technical panache to enliven a haunted-house story that now almost reads like a parody – on paper, anyway.
The New Girlfriend (15)
(François Ozon, 2014, Fra) Romain Duris, Anaïs Demoustier, Raphaël Personnaz. 108 mins
Ozon blurs boundaries of gender, sexuality, friendship and desire intoxicatingly in this Ruth Rendell-derived thriller, after middle-class wife Demoustier discovers her dead best friend’s husband has a secret life.
Return To Sender (18)
(Fouad Mikati, 2014, US) Rosamund Pike, Shiloh Fernandez, Nick Nolte. 94 mins
After Gone Girl, Pike again refuses to play the victim, after she’s assaulted on a blind date. Instead, she starts writing to her attacker in prison – setting up another mysterious revenge thriller.
Spring (15)
(Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, 2014, US) Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker, Francesco Carnelutti. 107 mins
An American tourist’s Italian dream girl turns out to have an outlandish secret in this deceptive romance. Let’s just say special effects are involved.
We Are Many (12A)
(Amir Amirani, 2014, UK) 110 mins
Celebrities, politicians, artists and activists help re-stoke anger over the Iraq war, looking back on the failures and successes of the global protests of 2003.
Moomins On The Riviera (U)
(Xavier Picard, Hanna Hemilä, 2014, Fra/Fin) Russell Tovey, Nathaniel Parker. 77 mins
The lovable Finnish trolls turn modern materialism on its head with their folksy bohemian ways in this gentle old-school animation.
Tokyo Tribe (18)
(Sion Sono, 2014, Jap) Ryôhei Suzuki, Young Dais. 116 mins
Utterly bizarre rap-battle musical somewhere between a futuristic The Warriors and a hip-hop West Side Story. Messy, violent, cult-friendly.
Dino Time (PG)
(Choi Yoon-suk, John Kafka, 2012, US/S Kor) Melanie Griffith, Jane Lynch. 84 mins
Basic animation in which kids get transported back to the dinosaurs’ era.
Out from Friday
The Impressionists Filmed tour of the National Gallery’s Paul Durand-Ruel exhibition. Out from Tue
San Andreas Dwayne Johnson to the rescue when The Big One hits California.
The Connection A French take on the events of The French Connection, with Jean Dujardin.
Danny Collins Life re-evaluation time for Al Pacino’s veteran rock star.
Man Up Simon Pegg and Lake Bell’s double blind date on romcom street.
Timbuktu Acclaimed study of divisive jihadism in the Saharan city.
Results Personal trainers Guy Pearce and Cobie Smulders work out (their issues).
The Dead Lands Maori action thriller delivering tribal beefs and pre-colonial combat.
The Goob Coming-of-age in rural Norfolk.
Search Party Hangover-like cross-border road comedy.
Sword Of Vengeance Saxon warfare on a limited budget.
Coming soon
In two weeks… Melissa McCarthy goes undercover in Paul Feig’s Spy… Jason Schwartzman and Elisabeth Moss in literary comedy Listen Up Philip…
In three weeks… Prehistory repeats itself with Jurassic World… Indonesian genocide doc The Look Of Silence…
In a month… Vincent Chase goes feature-length with Entourage… Ian McKellen plays retired sleuth Mr Holmes…
