Critical Week: What's cooking

It's been another busy week at the movies, even as the cinemas take another breath between blockbusters. There's still plenty to see. I thoroughly enjoyed Tony, which stars the excellent Dominic Sessa as a young Anthony Bourdain, and features strong roles for Antonio Banderas, Emilia Jones and Leo Woodall. By contrast, Broken Lizard's Super Troopers 3 carries on the random silliness as a knucklehead group of Vermont cops play pranks on each other in the run-up to a Bollywood style wedding. A perfect distraction from real life.

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There were also a few star-driven movies. Glenn Close is radiant as a Finnish grandma in The Summer Book, an enjoyable but rather glowy memoir-style drama. Vicky Krieps is terrific in the French drama Love Me Tender, a far too long but powerfully involving story that centres around queerness and child custody. And the superb George MacKay gives an astonishingly full-bodied turn in the collage-style Scottish drama Mission (premieres next weekend at Edinburgh International Film Festival).

There was also the low-budget indie romcom Do Us Part, featuring a messy love triangle that emerges amusingly at a wedding. And from India, Our Share of Sand is a gorgeously observed drama about a young girl discovering truths about her family and culture (premieres at Venice Film Festival next month). I also attended a live performance of Matthew Bourne's thrillingly sexy The Car Man, a dance loosely based on Bizet's Carmen.

Coming up this next week, I'll be watching Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor in The End of Oak Street, Juliette Binoche in Queen at Sea, Claire Foy in The Magic Faraway Tree, the horror romance Leviticus and the award-winning Indian drama Songs of Forgotten Trees. I'll also be heading up to the Edinburgh Fringe for a few days.