From Armando Iannucci’s Soviet satire to Metallica live, here’s our pick of the best films, gigs, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance in the next seven days

From the return of St Vincent to Dr Seuss on stage, here is our pick of the best films, gigs, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance in the next seven days

Modern London is the backdrop for a British debut about a complex young woman, while Kafka and folklore combine in a tale about a zoo worker

A peculiar tale about the characters at a slaughterhouse stands out from the crowd, while Palestinian womanhood gets an eye-opening update

Domestic paranoia is on the cards in Darren Aronofsky’s latest movie, while Sarmad Masud’s Pakistani siege thriller could almost be a western

A gothic murder case becomes a revisionist survey of Victorian London, while Stephen King’s novel about a terrorising clown is given a polished adaptation

Repression and romance fuel Francis Lee’s outstanding Yorkshire-set drama, while Steven Soderbergh’s heist comedy is infectious fun

Kathryn Bigelow restages the city’s 1967 race riots with authenticity and urgency, while Shubhashish Bhutiani touches on death, modernity and Hindu philosophy

Stanley Tucci directs a witty sketch about the great Swiss artist Giacometti, while Lambert Wilson stars in the definitive biopic of Jacques Cousteau

Casey Affleck stars as a bedsheet-wearing spectre in an exploration of human transience, while Melville’s classic crime thriller gets a 4K restoration

Cross-cultural awkwardness is the focus of this year’s best romcom yet, while exotic animals and plenty of imagination lift Luc Besson’s sci-fi epic

Tenderness, humour and cultural awkwardness abound in Kumail Nanjiani’s romcom, while chaos ensues in an animation about shaking up school

Christopher Nolan delivers a visceral war epic, while brave citizens in Isis’s ‘capital’ risk their lives to shed light on the treatment of the city and its people

Alpha-chimp Caesar earns his epic finale, while Colin Farrell stars in a feminist-slanted US civil war drama

Tom Holland’s charm and youthfulness help him pull off the superhero role, while Terrence Malick crafts a tale from sensual imagery and inner thoughts

Edgar Wright’s entertaining car-chase movie roars into town, while Harry Michell stars in a comedy about two aspiring actors. Plus: a social history of Istanbul’s cats

A Korean girl and her giant pig take on an evil corporation, while viewers are kept guessing in an experimental Thai film about a real-life massacre

Nick Broomfield treads a careful line between tribute and exposé in his Whitney Houston docudrama, while Juliette Binoche stars in an eccentric French farce

Rachel Weisz stars in the latest Daphne du Maurier adaptation, while Richard Gere continues his revival as an old-school New Yorker chancer

The innocence of childhood is captured perfectly in an animation about a care home, while a life-affirming drama highlights the intricacies of family life