GHOSTBUSTERS
M, 116 minutes
Paul Feig's gender-flip reboot with Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones, Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon is smart, funny and surreptitiously subversive. It does more than enough to leave the fanboys who condemned it covered in the franchise's trademark slime. CM 
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP
PG, 94 minutes
Whit Stillman's film is based on Lady Susan, a little-known Jane Austen novella about a beautiful Georgian gold-digger blind to her flaws. Kate Beckinsale stars with a great cast including Chloe Sevigny and Stephen Fry. SH
SING STREET
M, 105 minutes
Once director John Carney's affection for the emotional pull of making music gets a buoyant charge of adolescent nostalgia in a charming tale of first band and first love. The early-'80s soundtrack is spot-on. CM
OUR KIND OF TRAITOR
MA, 107 minutes
In this dexterously tense thriller set amid the European intersection of national security and organised crime, Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris play an on-the-rocks couple befriended by a Russian gangster (Stellan Skarsgard) who wants to defect. CM
SWISS ARMY MAN
M, 95 minutes
Swiss Army Man has been dubbed "the farting corpse movie", the corpse being Harry Potter's alter ego, Daniel Radcliffe. It comes to the aid of Hank (Paul Dano) when it washes up on an island where he is stranded and the unlikely pair try to reach civilisation. SH
MAGGIE'S PLAN
M, 98 minute
Writer-director Rebecca Miller goes modern screwball with a New York woman (Greta Gerwig) who thinks she knows what she wants in life, and keeps getting it. Her plans entwine the lives of married academics (Julianne Moore and Ethan Hawke). CM
THE LEGEND OF TARZAN
M, 110 minutes
Directed by Harry Potter regular David Yates, the new Tarzan movie was shot not in Africa but at Warners' British studios and its version of the Congo is very much a boutique version. Alexander Skarsgard's Tarzan is all muscle and sinew. SH
GOLDSTONE
M, 110 minutes
Aaron Pedersen returns as Detective Jay Swan, sent to an outback gold-mining town to search for a missing girl, in this follow-up to Ivan Sen's last film, Mystery Road. Sen pumps gravitas into the story with his passion for the palette of the landscape. SH
THE BFG
PG, 117 minutes
Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved book about the bond between a big friendly giant and an orphaned girl is impeccably made and surprisingly contemplative. CM