Callum Turner, Riley Keough, Dwayne Johnson, Catherine Laga’aia and Souheila Yacoub feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of July 10th, 2026Evil Dead Burn: Luciane Buchanan in Sébastien Vanicek's film. Photograph: StudioCanal Sun Jul 12 2026 - 04:55 • 3 MIN READRosebush Pruning ★★☆☆☆Directed by Karim Aïnouz. Starring Callum Turner, Jamie Bell, Riley Keough, Lukas Gage, Elle Fanning, Tracy Letts, Pamela Anderson, Elena Anaya. 18 cert, limited release, 95 min“The rich are different from you and me,” F Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote. But surely not so different as all this. Aïnouz, Brazilian director of the rightly acclaimed The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão, working with Efthimis Filippou, Greek screenwriter of The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, go beyond the bounds of polite excess with this overheated, proudly decadent satire of loaded Americans in Catalonia. The high-class actors throw themselves gamely into the awful characters, but, though the anger at wealthy excess is justified, the film is too smug in its show-off depravity. DC Full reviewMoana ★☆☆☆☆Directed by Thomas Kail. Voices of Dwayne Johnson, Catherine Laga’aia, Rena Owen, John Tui, Frankie Adams, Jemaine Clement. PG cert, gen release, 115 minDepressingly unimaginative live-action translation of the hit 2016 animation about a Polynesian girl and her friendly demigod. Surely that won’t be enough for even the most fervent member of the Disney Princess Tendency. Rather than adding a new dimension, the photorealistic production (perhaps a better term than “live action”) strips the visuals of all painterly charm. The gifted Laga’aia works hard as the title character, but there is so little innovation to the script that she ends up in the territory of high-end tribute act. A lazy, lazy work that sullies the good name of “content”. DC Full reviewEvil Dead Burn ★★★☆☆Directed by Sébastien Vanicek. Starring Souheila Yacoub, Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan, Tandi Wright, Erroll Shand. 18 cert, gen release, 110 minAlice (Yacoub), the traumatised widow of Will, has converged with her in-laws after he dies in a fiery (and demonic) car crash. It’s a white-knuckle ride for Alice as she attempts to keep quiet about her abusive husband’s reign of terror while listening to lavish tributes from his grieving mother. Those hoping for a return to the “splatstick” of the possessed hand in Evil Dead 2 or the cartoon medieval capering of Army of Darkness will be disappointed. Instead, Evil Dead Burn brings a convincing new-French-extremity energy to the Deadites. Regrettably, that’s not really who they are. Where did the groovy go? TB Full reviewThe Last One for the Road ★★★☆☆Directed by Francesco Sossai. Starring Filippo Scotti, Sergio Romano, Pierpaolo Capovilla. 15A cert, limited release, 100 minSossai’s second feature follows two carefree midlife drifters across Veneto, in northeastern Italy, in a rambling road movie that marries shaggy comedy, wistful character study and coming-of-age tale. There’s something of the male-bonding booze-ups of Sideways and Another Round in the scenario, and something of Alice Rohrwacher’s rogues in the characters of Romano and Capovilla, as the actors cleverly convey decades of shared disappointments beneath the banter. Scotti provides a quieter counterpoint and audience surrogate. Sossai favours digressions over plot, allowing recollections, landscapes and chance encounters to coalesce into a shaggy hair-of-the-dog story. TB Full reviewIN THIS SECTION