July movies: What’s worth watchingBy If you’re heading to the cinema or just your couch, our reviewers have you covered with the new releases you need to know about each week.And don’t forget to sign up to our Screening Room newsletter for must-see movies, interviews and the latest news from the world of film. Popcorn not included!Latest Postsyesterday 4.28pmJackass: Best and Last ★★By Sandra HallMA (92 minutes) I think I’m safe in saying that the gross-out movie is uniquely American. And nobody does it better than Johnny Knoxville and the team of pranksters responsible for the Jackass movies and the TV series that goes with them – although responsible is hardly an apt word in this context.Their flair for the disgusting is unmatched – as is their senseless urge to risk life and limb. At the insistence of their studio, MTV, their productions carry a warning telling you not to try this at home and their logo is a skull with a crutch.Danger Ehren, Dave England, Johnny Knoxville, and Wee Man in Jackass: Best and Last.Sean CliverTheir new film is billed as their last, but we can only hope. Their fascination with penises, rectums and the wonders of the human waste system goes undiminished, and to mark their miraculous progress into their 50s, they’ve worked a take-off of their prostate examinations into the show.yesterday 4.19pmSilent Friend ★★★½By Sandra HallM (147 minutes)Are plants sentient? How do babies see the world? For a quiet film, Silent Friend has big ambitions. Hungarian writer-director Ildiko Enyedi is out to set us thinking about life’s enigmas and how some great minds are trying to unravel them.Much of the story unfolds in a botanical garden on the campus of Marburg University in Germany during three different time periods spread over more than a century.Tony Leung Chiu-wai plays a scientist intrigued by an ancient ginkgo tree in Silent Friend. Lenke Szilagyiyesterday 4.07pm100 Nights of Hero ★★By Jake WilsonM (92 minutes) Based on a graphic novel by British illustrator Isabel Greenberg, 100 Nights of Hero is a queer feminist fairytale purporting to be a celebration of the power of storytelling. But it barely comes to life as a story, as opposed to a costume party that writer-director Julia Jackson has thrown for her friends.Everything is in quotation marks, transparently secondhand, even the main location, the British stately home Knebworth House, with its turreted Victorian Gothic facade conjuring up a 19th-century idea of the Middle Ages (that same whimsy appealed to Tim Burton, who used Knebworth as Wayne Manor in his 1989 Batman).Emma Corrin, Felicity Jones and Maika Monroe in 100 Nights of Hero. While the architecture is European, the plot is a riff on the Arabian Nights – and all of this appears to be happening on an alien planet, with several crescent moons hanging in a pinkish sky. As the highborn yet downtrodden heroine, Maika Monroe wears modern-looking corsets over white dresses with absurdly puffy sleeves, and makes no effort to mask her American accent.yesterday 4.06pmThe Good Boy ★★½By Jake WilsonMA (110 minutes)The oddest aspect of The Good Boy is the involvement of Stephen Graham, co-creator of last year’s zeitgeist-y BBC drama Adolescence, which updated the traditional theme of juvenile delinquency for the era of social media, with Graham as a Yorkshire dad who discovers his son has been radicalised online.Also set in Yorkshire, The Good Boy tackles a comparable theme from a drastically different point of view. The teenage anti-hero Tommy (Anson Boon) is plainly a menace to society, and is in the habit of livestreaming his crimes for an appreciative online audience (as Alex, the charismatic young thug from A Clockwork Orange, surely would if he were around today).Andrea Riseborough, Kit Rakusen and Stephen Graham in The Good Boy.Lukasz BakBut the Polish director, Jan Komasa, and screenwriter Bartek Bartosik avoid pinning the blame for Tommy’s bad behaviour on the internet – and are also willing to hint that in some cases the cure might be worse than the disease.Pinned post from yesterday 4.06pmJuly movies: What’s worth watchingBy If you’re heading to the cinema or just your couch, our reviewers have you covered with the new releases you need to know about each week.And don’t forget to sign up to our Screening Room newsletter for must-see movies, interviews and the latest news from the world of film. Popcorn not included!1 of 1