Mark Kermode's film of the week
Films of the week reviewed by the Observer's film critic Mark Kermode
Brother review – brilliantly acted Canadian coming-of-age drama
A single mother struggles to protect her two very different sons, growing up in Toronto, in Clement Virgo’s deeply moving film
Past Lives review – a spine-tingling romance of lost chances
Korean-Canadian writer-director Celine Song’s tremendous feature debut tells the poignant tale of childhood sweethearts separated by fate and thousands of miles
Passages review – body language speaks volumes in seductive three-way love story
Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski are brilliantly believable in Ira Sachs’s exploration of a gay marriage that’s challenged when one partner has a passionate affair with a young woman
Blue Beetle review – superhero fun with immigrant survival subtext
How will a law graduate use beetle-based powers to help his beleaguered Latino family? Believable dynamics and boisterous comedy add charm to a familiar genre
Gran Turismo review – gamer turned pro racing driver movie pushes most of the right buttons
District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s true-life tale is unable to swerve the cliches yet delivers pedal-to-the-metal entertainment
Talk to Me review – an Evil Dead for the Snapchat generation
Australian YouTuber twins Danny and Michael Philippou’s feature debut is an entertaining chiller that mixes shrieking horror and psychological nuance
Barbie review – a riotous, candy-coloured feminist fable
Barbie takes a ride from her dream house to reality as Little Women writer-director Greta Gerwig takes another cultural icon and lovingly subverts it
Medusa review – body fascists on the loose in heady satire on Brazil’s police state
Anita Rocha da Silveira’s genre-bending tale of masked religious vigilantes is a genre film with something to say
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One review – Tom Cruise is still taking our breath away
With star turns from Vanessa Kirby and Hayley Atwell, plus a zeitgeisty AI plot, this seventh MI outing is one of the most exhilarating yet
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny review – Harrison Ford does the heavy lifting in lightweight sequel
The octogenarian star gives it his all in James Mangold’s fun but formulaic action adventure co-starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge and a scenery-sucking Mads Mikkelsen
Asteroid City review – smug Wes Anderson comedy falls to earth
The writer-director’s knowing meta-tale set in a space-obsessed 1950s desert town has a starry cast and meticulous attention to detail, but its studied quirkiness is often more irritating than amusing
Pretty Red Dress review – toe-tapping London tale of desire and identity
Natey Jones and Alexandra Burke play a couple tussling with dreams and secret shame in Dionne Edwards’s defiant yet uplifting drama with music at its core
Chevalier review – entertainingly soapy portrait of a Black 18th-century maestro
Kelvin Harrison Jr commands the screen in Stephen Williams’s brashly anachronistic drama about the French composer, violin virtuoso and champion fencer Joseph Bologne
Reality review – palm-sweatingly tense whistleblower drama
Tina Satter’s verbatim film about the FBI’s interrogation of US intelligence leaker Reality Winner is a stranger-than-fiction reflection of our precarious times
Hypnotic review – preposterous tosh from start to finish starring Ben Affleck
Affleck is in full frowny mode as a haunted cop on the tail of a criminal mastermind in a thriller that seems to revel in its absurdity
Beau Is Afraid review – Ari Aster’s patience-testing shaggy dog story
Joaquin Phoenix plays a hapless middle-aged man on a tortuous journey to see his mum in the Midsommar director’s three-hour black comedy of Oedipal angst
Still: A Michael J Fox Movie review – an intimate, uplifting star portrait
Self-effacing and wryly defiant, the Hollywood actor, diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at 29, reflects on a life of two halves in this revealing documentary
Return to Seoul review – Park Ji-min lights up mesmerising tale of identity and alienation
An adopted woman travels from France to South Korea in search of her roots in Davy Chou’s star-making second film
Little Richard: I Am Everything review – thrilling documentary about the rock’n’roll pioneer
Lisa Cortés’s richly enjoyable film examines the alter egos and queer theories surrounding a conflicted star who was way ahead of his time
One Fine Morning review – Mia Hansen-Løve’s moving tale of love and loss
In the role of a lifetime, Léa Seydoux plays a widowed single mum caught between new romance and the failing mind of her father in the French director’s deeply personal Cannes prize winner
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