The week’s new movie releases across all platforms

MISS JUNETEENTH Drama behind a beauty pageant

June 19 – or Juneteenth – marks the day when Texas’s slaves were finally freed, more than two years after President Lincoln’s supposedly countrywide emancipation. In the modern-day black community in which Channing Godfrey Peoples’ absorbing film is set, it’s now marked by a pageant; part beauty contest, part talent show, featuring Liz Mikel (below). But life hasn’t worked out so well for one past winner. So why is Turquoise Jones – beautifully played by Nicole Beharie – so keen for her daughter to win? Curzon, from Friday

REBUILDING PARADISE Timely study of life after a wildfire

With wildfires currently raging in many parts of California, Ron Howard’s meticulously assembled documentary couldn’t be more topical or more powerful. It revisits the worst fire in the state’s history – the so-called ‘Camp Fire’ of 2018, which claimed 85 lives and destroyed the town of Paradise. Rebuilding it, however, turns out to be more complex and traumatic than anyone could have expected. Most platforms, from Friday

MONEY PLANE Calamitous Kelsey drops a clanger

Despite the ordinarily tempting presence of Kelsey Grammer (below), this unfortunately turns out to be one of the worst films you’ll see all year, with Grammer playing a shadowy Mr Big figure known as

The Rumble, and wrestler-turnedactor Adam Copeland playing the leader of the gang he coerces into taking down a top-secret flying casino. A late switch to comedy can’t save it. Most platforms, now Matthew Bond