Donna Ong’s documentary examines cinema and Hong Kong history from the 1950s onwards through the eyes of a titan of the cultural scene. Fascinating and packed with archive material, it is narrated by Law.

Starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal and directed by Andrew Haigh, All of us Strangers on Disney+ is a heart-shattering melodrama that dares to explore love and loneliness at its most raw.

Director Sam Wong has tried to pack too much into Suspect, and the result is an incoherent mess. Playing a detective with unusual powers, Nick Cheung endures some frankly stupid set pieces.

Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt team up in this retread of the hit 1980s US TV series. Gosling plays an injured stuntman who is searching for the missing star of a sci-fi series directed by his ex (Blunt).

Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, on Netflix, rounds off Zack Snyder’s instantly forgettable sci-fi series, with even less depth, humour and emotional complexity than the first movie.

Ryohei Suzuki stars as playboy detective Ryo Saeba in new Netflix movie City Hunter, the latest adaptation of the manga of the same name by artist Tsukasa Hojo.

Christopher Nolan references and a love triangle don’t save Chinese drama Galaxy Writer, which follows two fledgling filmmakers navigating China’s commercialised movie industry.

Abigail stars Alisha Weir as the titular 12-year-old daughter of a crime lord, who is kidnapped for a US$50 million ransom. Abigail is, however, a vampire, and takes her revenge on the extorters.

Zendaya plays a young tennis prodigy, while Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor play doubles partners who are both infatuated with her, in this romantic drama from Bones and All director Luca Guadagnino.

Kim Sung-su’s political blockbuster faithfully recounts the 1979 coup d’état that plunged South Korea into its darkest period to date, in a film full of grandstanding machismo and intimidation.

Writer and director Sasha Chuk stars in her debut film Fly Me to the Moon, which follows a young immigrant from mainland China as she struggles to live life in Hong Kong.

Oldboy’s Choi Min-sik stars as a paranormal investigator who, with shaman Hwa-rim (played by Kim Go-eun) and others, performs a ritual cleansing on the grave of a property tycoon’s ancestor.

Anderson plays BBC journalist Emily Maitlis in a dramatisation of her 2019 interview with Prince Andrew about sexual misconduct allegations, and the lead-up to it. Rufus Sewell plays the hapless royal.

The big mystery about this suspense drama is how a film with such a promising scenario – a star-crossed romance, identity swap and cold-blooded murder – can turn out so dull, nonsensical and awful.

Michihito Fujii’s 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days simple tale of a young Taiwanese man exploring his first love’s homeland, Japan, proves surprisingly effective – despite its needlessly clumsy title.

A heist movie that looks like it was dreamed up by a five-year-old, We 12, starring all the members of Cantopop boy band Mirror, is witless, lifeless and above all dull. For true fans only.

Where Japanese Godzilla films such as the recent Oscar winner Godzilla Minus One have gravitas, the makers of the latest American contribution steer willingly into a seemingly bottomless creative void.

Bill Nighy leads this football drama about a ragtag team taking part in the Homeless World Cup that is uplifting, but shies away from tackling the issues its characters face.

Independent filmmaker Hirobumi Watanabe stars as a version of himself in Your Lovely Smile, a Lim Kah-wai-directed film that celebrates venues with unique personalities and long, storied histories.

Po the panda, voiced by Jack Black, returns after an 8-year gap, and in this entertaining sequel, he’s on a quest to bring down the evil Chameleon (Viola Davis) with the help of an acrobatic fox (Awkwafina).

America is at war with itself in Ex Machina director Alex Garland’s evocative thriller Civil War, which takes a look at a fractured country through the eyes of members of the press.

Overweight thirty-something Leying, played by Jia Ling, takes up boxing to turn her life around in Yolo, which Jia wrote and directs. However, the emotional punch of the Japanese original is largely missing.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, starring Paul Rudd, Mckenna Grace and Bill Murray, sees old and new ghostbusting teams work together again – but the story becomes increasingly chaotic the more it goes on.

Gyllenhaal plays a hard man protector for a Florida Keys community, where he is up against a shady gangster who enlists a psychotic heavy, played by former UFC fighter Conor McGregor, to stop him.

The meaning of home and family when one is kept apart from them by a pandemic is a big theme of Tsang Tsui-shan’s film about once-a-decade festivities in rural Hong Kong for which emigrants cannot return.

We Are Family, Hong Kong comic Eric Tsang’s film about rent-a-families, starts off as a farcical showbiz satire before taking viewers on an emotional roller coaster, and ends as a poignant tear-jerker.

Netflix movie Damsel, directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, is an action-packed fantasy in which Millie Bobby Brown – of Stranger Things and Enola Holmes – takes on a fire-breathing dragon.

The movie prequel to the popular Japanese anime series, The Birth of Kitaro: Mystery of GeGeGe is extremely violent and dark, but is a profound and rewarding watch for more mature viewers.

A charismatic Chung Suet-ying stars in coming-of-age comedy The Lyricist Wannabe as a woman who tries – and continually fails – to become a Cantopop songwriter.