Four new films to see this week

Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. Starring Marisa Abela, Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan, Lesley Manville, Juliet Cowan, Jeff Tunke. 15A cert, gen release, 122 min

Effective by-the-numbers biopic of Amy Winehouse that remains tasteful throughout. Abela, in the lead, can’t equal Winehouse before the microphone, but offstage she manages to be simultaneously adorable and exasperating. O’Connell is strong in the tricky role of her sometime husband Blake Fielder-Civil. Sure, you will learn more — and hear more of the original recordings — in Asif Kapadia’s great doc Amy, but Taylor-Johnson does a decent job of making a tight drama from the same tragic yarn.

Thrilling, propulsive speculative drama set in a United States that has given into civil war. Dunst plays one of four journalists making her way to a besieged Washington DC. For all the atrocities on display, dissenters can reasonably argue there is less sociopolitical analysis here than in the average zombie film . But the momentum is so relentless that it proves hard to care. Wan as satire. But an action stormer for the ages. All the performances are top-notch.

Gripping, Oscar-nominated German drama following a teacher as she tries to disentangle mysterious thefts at her school. Escalating tensions, amplified by Marvin Miller’s unnerving violin score, are compounded by sensitivities to race and class. The production and costume design become angular and unwelcoming in tandem with the heroine’s unravelling.

Characteristically elliptical drama from the director of The Spirit of the Beehive and The Quince Tree Sun. Utilising a matryoshka structure, Close Your Eyes opens in postwar France, where a wealthy Spanish emigre dispatches a detective to find his long-lost daughter in Shanghai. The story is revealed to be a surviving fragment of a 1990 production abandoned when the lead actor Julio disappeared. An unhurried mystery is unravelled. The journey takes precedence.

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