This Week’s Schedule

A woman turns up at the gated island estate of the wealthy father she has never met, and is grudgingly absorbed into a household of women circling one another with the knives out. Sébastien Marnier’s thriller is lurid, very funny and genuinely nasty, with Laure Calamy and Doria Tillier both superb. Every single person here is lying about something. English subtitles.

Three loosely connected stories about grown children visiting their parents, in New Jersey, Dublin and Paris, in which almost nothing happens and everything is felt. Jim Jarmusch assembles Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Tom Waits and Charlotte Rampling, then lets the awkward silences do the work. It won the Golden Lion at Venice. English subtitles.

Two sisters move to the countryside while their mother is in hospital, and discover that the forest next door is home to an enormous, sleepy and entirely benevolent spirit. Miyazaki’s gentlest film has almost no plot and no villain at all, just wonder, rain, and the finest bus in cinema. Perfect for the smallest viewers. English subtitles.

A spectacularly dysfunctional family piles into a failing VW bus to drive a seven-year-old to a child beauty pageant in California, and very nearly everything that can go wrong does. Alan Arkin won an Oscar as the grandfather, and the final talent-show sequence is one of the great endings. Funny, generous and quietly furious about winners and losers. English subtitles.

An archaeologist who prefers a bullwhip to a trowel races the Nazis across three continents for the Ark of the Covenant. Spielberg and Lucas set out to pay tribute to Saturday morning serials and accidentally made the most purely entertaining adventure film ever assembled. The boulder, the snakes, the truck chase. English subtitles.

A brilliant little girl with appalling parents and a tyrant of a headmistress discovers she can move things with her mind, and starts quietly evening the score. Danny DeVito directs Roald Dahl with exactly the right streak of cruelty, and Mara Wilson is wonderful. Children adore it, and adults recognise everybody in it. English subtitles.

A Samoan music teacher who lost her daughter in the Christchurch earthquake takes a job at an elite private school, and ends up building a choir out of students nobody expected anything from. Anapela Polataivao is magnificent in Miki Magasiva’s debut, which became the biggest New Zealand film in years and won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2025 Palm Springs International Film Festival. Bring tissues, and expect to leave singing. English subtitles.

A woman turns up at the gated island estate of the wealthy father she has never met, and is grudgingly absorbed into a household of women circling one another with the knives out. Sébastien Marnier’s thriller is lurid, very funny and genuinely nasty, with Laure Calamy and Doria Tillier both superb. Every single person here is lying about something. English subtitles.

Three loosely connected stories about grown children visiting their parents, in New Jersey, Dublin and Paris, in which almost nothing happens and everything is felt. Jim Jarmusch assembles Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Tom Waits and Charlotte Rampling, then lets the awkward silences do the work. It won the Golden Lion at Venice. English subtitles.

Five students who have nothing in common spend a Saturday in detention together and end up telling each other the truth. John Hughes shot almost the whole film in a single school library and got an entire generation to recognise itself. Still the sharpest thing anyone has made about how teenagers get sorted. English subtitles.

An archaeologist who prefers a bullwhip to a trowel races the Nazis across three continents for the Ark of the Covenant. Spielberg and Lucas set out to pay tribute to Saturday morning serials and accidentally made the most purely entertaining adventure film ever assembled. The boulder, the snakes, the truck chase. English subtitles.

A brilliant little girl with appalling parents and a tyrant of a headmistress discovers she can move things with her mind, and starts quietly evening the score. Danny DeVito directs Roald Dahl with exactly the right streak of cruelty, and Mara Wilson is wonderful. Children adore it, and adults recognise everybody in it. English subtitles.

Three months after surviving a terrorist attack in a Paris brasserie, Mia still cannot remember what happened in that room, so she goes back looking for the pieces. Virginie Efira is extraordinary as a woman reassembling herself out of other people’s memories. Alice Winocour handles all of it with real delicacy. English subtitles.

A spectacularly dysfunctional family piles into a failing VW bus to drive a seven-year-old to a child beauty pageant in California, and very nearly everything that can go wrong does. Alan Arkin won an Oscar as the grandfather, and the final talent-show sequence is one of the great endings. Funny, generous and quietly furious about winners and losers. English subtitles.

Marty McFly borrows a DeLorean, lands in 1955, accidentally stops his parents falling in love, and has to repair it before he erases himself from existence. Robert Zemeckis built a plot so tight that not one thing in it is wasted. Forty years on, it is still the film every time-travel story gets measured against. English subtitles.

Harry and Sally spend twelve years arguing about whether men and women can ever really be friends, while slowly answering the question themselves. Nora Ephron wrote one of the most quoted screenplays ever made, Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan are perfect, and yes, that deli scene has earned its reputation. The gold standard for romantic comedy. English subtitles.