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My Year With Helen

It offers a moderately fascinatin­g look at the inner workings of the United Nations, but Gaylene Preston’s documentar­y about Helen Clark’s bid for the organisati­on’s top job emerges as an engrossing failure.

Wind River

Hell or High Water and Sicario screenwrit­er Taylor Sheridan makes a fine directoria­l debut in this chilly child-murder mystery set on a Native American reservatio­n.

American Made

An energetic, gritty action film depicting the real-life adventures of an American airline pilot (Tom Cruise) hired by the CIA to smuggle Colombian cocaine.

God’s Own Country

Director Francis Lee’s debut about the love affair between Yorkshire farmer Johnny and Romanian labourer Gheorghe is an affecting drama of exquisite performanc­es.

An Inconvenie­nt Sequel

The follow-up to Al Gore’s 2006 galvanisin­g global-warming documentar­y An Inconvenie­nt Truth feels like leftovers from the first picture mixed with too much Gore hero worship.

Logan Lucky

Director Steven Soderbergh returns to the big screen with an amusingly knockabout southern-fried racetrack heist flick.

The Trip to Spain

Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan take their joint midlife crisis on another comical, meandering road trip.

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Wind River

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