All polish and no punch

BOMBSHELL

The downfall of predatory Fox News chairman

Roger Ailes, one of those #MeToo-triggering scalps, is retold in watchable if plasticky fashion, with an uncanny Charlize Theron as his golden girl Megyn Kelly, and Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie playing her fellow accusers. The film supplies a kind of canned outrage where depth is lacking.

15 cert, 109 min

JUST MERCY

Michael B Jordan plays real-life attorney Bryan Stevenson, who set up his own legal practice to appeal against dubious murder convictions for clients on Death Row. Facing the inbuilt prejudice of Alabama’s criminal courts, he’s this generation’s Atticus Finch, in a middleweight prestige drama lifted by a sterling Jamie Foxx as his cause célèbre.

12A cert, 137 min

WAVES

This kaleidoscopic coming-ofage melodrama hits hard in its opening movement, then enthrallingly twists into more introspective forms. Kelvin Harrison Jr and Taylor Russell excel as Floridian siblings whose lives are derailed by a horribly avoidable tragedy, while director Trey Edward Shults balances vibrancy and grit.

15 cert, 136 mins

WEATHERING WITH YOU

The unflaggingly dazzling new animation from Japan’s Makoto Shinkai is another magical teenage romance in the Your Name vein – this time between a Tokyo runaway and a girl with mysterious meteorological powers. It’s a sweet first-love fable, with the metaphor dial cranked up to apocalypse.

12A cert, 112 mins