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Repertory Rundown: What to Watch in London This Week, From Cairo Station to John Cassavetes

From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital

Homecoming review – great young acting talent anchors an otherwise weightless plot

Writer-director Catherine Corsini helms an uneven drama about a woman who returns to Corsica with her two teenage daughters

Asteroid City review – style over substance, and drier than a desert

Wes Anderson's latest retro foray is visually inspired, but too many characters and a formal stiffness always keeps us at arm's length

Suzume review – breathless, operatic animation will shake you to the core

Japanese animator Makoto Shinkai's latest is an urgent, allegorical adventure about his nation's grappling with natural disaster

Silver Haze review – dynamic but frustrating study of childhood trauma

Sacha Polak's semi-improvised and well-acted new film explores the destructive power of anger, but bites off more than it can chew

The Bishop’s Wife review – superbly understated Christmas comedy

Cary Grant is perfectly cast as an angel sent to aid a bishop in this elegant, sweetly observed 1947 classic, now on re-release

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio review – pure poetry in stop-motion

The director's first animated feature, a bold musical reimagining, is a spellbinding cinematic song of life, death and innocence

Nil by Mouth review – Gary Oldman’s gritty drama is like Ken Loach on coke

The great actor's sole directorial credit, re-released for its 25th anniversary, offers a bleak, uncompromising vision of 90s Britain

Argentina, 1985 review – slick but slightly superficial courtroom drama

Santiago Mitre's film about the military junta trials following Argentina's Dirty War is gripping and well-made, but lacks detail

Medusa Deluxe review – slick but nonsensical “one-take” whodunnit

Thomas Hardiman's murder mystery, set during a hairdressing competition, is technically impressive though lacks plausibility