Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloads
Guy Lodge's guide to the best of the week's new DVDs, downloads and video streams
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Cameraperson; Trolls; We Are the Flesh; Blood Father; Cover Girl; The Demons – reviewKirsten Johnson’s remarkable debut is an intimate look at life behind the lens, while Trolls charms, briefly, thanks to its Glee-style songs
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The Girl on the Train; A Date for Mad Mary and more – reviewEmily Blunt’s performance far exceeds the bounds of a glossy thriller, while Seána Kerslake is a perfect match for an ex-con drama
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Bridget Jones’s Baby; Deepwater Horizon; War on Everyone and more – reviewComforts, catastrophes and chills in a week dominated by Renée Zellweger’s return as the klutzy singleton and Mark Walhlberg’s heroics in the Mexican Gulf
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Under the Shadow; Blair Witch; The Magnificent Seven and more – reviewBabak Anvari’s Tehran terror is the star attraction in a week marked by so-so sequels and Sundance sundries
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Kubo and the Two Strings; Anthropoid; Gimme Danger and more – reviewIt looks stunning, but Kubo and the Two Strings is hard to love. Still, Jim Jarmusch’s tribute to Iggy Pop rocks
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Hell or High Water; Julieta; Chi-Raq; Black Orpheus; Miss Sharon Jones! – reviewDavid Mackenzie’s heist thriller is comfortingly familiar, while Pedro Almodóvar and Spike Lee are both back on song
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Ethel & Ernest; Little Men; Dog Eat Dog; London Town; The Man Between – reviewAn adaptation of Raymond Briggs’s Ethel & Ernest is a delicate portrayal of enduring love, while two teenagers battle the class divide in the gorgeous Little Men
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Remember the Night; Brotherhood; The Purge: Election Year; War Dogs and more – reviewA neglected Preston Sturges Christmas classic is the highlight of a week of grim movies best left until after Boxing Day
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Swallow and Amazons; David Brent: Life on the Road; Woody Allen: Six Films and more – reviewComforting British titles, first-rate Woody Allen, Ricky Gervais on the road again, and a slow-moving Zac Efron vehicle
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The Shallows; Pete’s Dragon; Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie; Suicide Squad and more – reviewBlake Lively stars as a bloodied surfer in the best shark film since Jaws – and raise a glass (or several) to the Ab Fab film
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Finding Dory; Jason Bourne; My Scientology Movie and more – reviewPixar’s Dory is the catch of the day, while Isabelle Huppert is on a roll with Valley of Love
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Divines; Ghostbusters; The BFG; Star Trek: Beyond and more – reviewHouda Benyamina adds a thrilling feminist twist to the ghetto life genre with the direct-to-Netflix Divines
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Independence Day: Resurgence; Looking: The Complete Series and the Movie; Chevalier; The Wait and more – reviewRoland Emmerich’s second stab at an alien invasion has even more action than the original, while Juliette Binoche proves she’s cinema’s greatest mourner
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Things to Come; Cemetery of Splendour; X-Men: Apocalypse and more – reviewIsabelle Huppert is outstanding in Mia Hansen-Løve’s impeccable study of midlife crisis, while Greek newcomer Sofia Exarchou makes her mark with Park
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I am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House; The Neon Demon and more – reviewHauntings and mind games provide the chills in two superior Halloween releases from Osgood Perkins and Nicolas Winding Refn
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Notes on Blindness; Behemoth; The Boss; Gods of Egypt and more – reviewTwo documentaries play with form and evoke suffering on scales small and large, while Melissa McCarthy outshines her own film
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The Angry Birds Movie; The Clan; The Meddler; The Take and more – reviewThe most unlikely video-game-to-silver-screen transfer is surprisingly successful, but there are more substantial alternatives on offer
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Me Before You; Mediterranea; Shelley; Race and more – reviewThe gamut of emotions from a contrived tearjerker to a gritty migrant drama, with a monstrous sci-fi catastrophe thrown in
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When Marnie Was There; Alice Through the Looking Glass; Mother’s Day; Money Monster and more – reviewStudio Ghibli’s farewell film works like a dream, while Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass is more nightmare
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Love & Friendship; The Nice Guys; Fire at Sea; The White Helmets and more – reviewWhit Stillman’s literate sensibility renders him ideal for an Austen adaptation, while Shane Black mocks masculine archetypes
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Everybody Wants Some!!; Green Room; Author: The JT LeRoy Story; Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and more – reviewRichard Linklater’s snapshot of 80s college life is more than a simple exercise in nostalgia, while punks and neo-Nazis meet a grisly end
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Embrace of the Serpent; Bad Neighbours 2; Our Kind of Traitor; I Saw the Light; The Measure of a Man and more – reviewCiro Guerra’s trippy exploration of the Amazon is deeply impressive, as is Zac Ephon’s comic shallowness, but Le Carré is poorly served by a gloomy adaptation
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Florence Foster Jenkins; Captain America: Civil War; The People v OJ Simpson; Les cowboys – reviewMeryl Streep hits all the right wrong notes as the tone-deaf soprano
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Demolition; Ratchet & Clank; Golden Years; Sid and Nancy; Hangmen Also Die!; People of the Mountains – reviewWidowed banker Jake Gyllenhaal takes a hammer to his past in a week dominated by reissues, among them Alex Cox’s feral Sid Vicious film
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Knight of Cups; The Pearl Button; Arabian Nights; The Jungle Book; Jane Got a Gun; Miles Ahead; The Get Down – reviewChristian Bale plays a lost soul in Terrence Malick’s movie, while a documentary about the human rights abuses in Pinochet’s Chile is moving and assured
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Eye in the Sky; Louder Than Bombs; Men & Chicken; The Huntsman: Winter’s War and others – reviewHelen Mirren is formidable in a smart tale of modern warfare, but Charlize Theron and Emily Blunt are the only good thing about a flaccid fantasy sequel
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Sing Street; Midnight Special; Dheepan; Tale of Tales and others – reviewThe 80s reign again in a lovable high-school musical and a skin-prickling sci-fi chase, while Jacques Audiard’s Palme D’Or winner tells of Tamil refugees in Paris
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Stonewall; Holding the Man; Mapplethorpe; Batman v Superman; Hardcore Henry; A Kind of Loving; Film4 downloads – reviewQueer cinema exposes a soft centre, caped crusaders meet in a cinematic Spaghetti Junction and Film4 releases a fine haul
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Zootropolis; Disorder; 10 Cloverfield Lane; The End of the Tour; Stranger Things – reviewDisney’s crazy animal city entertains on many levels, while Winona Ryder is the star attraction in Stranger Things
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High-Rise; London Has Fallen; The Witch; Truth; Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story); Fox and His Friends; Chinese Roulette; Brahman Naman – reviewIn the current climate, JG Ballard’s tall story seems horribly relevant, while a 17th-century horror is scarier still
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Hail, Caesar!; Anomalisa; Mustang; Mon Roi; Queen of Earth; Allegiant; The Ones Below; The Invitation – reviewThe Coen brothers’ pastiche of golden-era Hollywood is weightier than its premise suggests, while Charlie Kaufman tackles puppet love
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Son of Saul; Labyrinth of Lies; Secret in Their Eyes; Strangerland; The Girlfriend Experience – reviewLázló Nemes’s Oscar-winning Holocaust drama puts the competition to shame
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A Bigger Splash; Salam Neighbor; Pride and Prejudice and Zombies; How to Be Single; The Violin Teacher; Triple 9; Ivan’s Childhood; Gilda – reviewA decadent summer gathering turns sour in the sparkling A Bigger Splash, while a vital documentary gives refugees a voice
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Trumbo; By the Sea; Evolution; The Forest; Truman; That Cold Day in the Park; The Exquisite Corpus – reviewWhile Bryan Cranston treads a familiar path to Oscar nomination in Trumbo, Evolution’s deliciously dark imagery offers more stimulating fare
American Honey; Free State of Jones; Inferno; Through the Wall; Le parc – reviews