Six films to watch this week

‘Alien: Romulus’ replays all the scares of 1979’s original; ‘Hollywoodgate’ chronicles the chaotic US exit from Afghanistan and Taliban takeover in 2021; ‘Only the River Flows’ stages a murder in a China on the cusp of change; life is a lottery in dystopian comedy ‘Jackpot!’; Matt Damon and Casey Affleck star in deadpan heist movie ‘The Instigators’; social realism meets absurdism in British drama ‘Tuesday’ — reviews by Danny Leigh

Alien: Romulus film review — in space, no one can hear you yawn
Jump scares, nightmares and an overdose of déjà vu undermine this latest entry in Ridley Scott’s series
Hollywoodgate review — at home with the Taliban after the US left Afghanistan
Ibrahim Nash’at’s documentary examines the panicked American exit in 2021 and the Taliban’s takeover
Only the River Flows film review — knockout Chinese crime thriller bathed in shadows
Wei Shujun’s eerie movie stages a murder in a country on the cusp of change
Jackpot! film review — life’s a lottery in dystopian comedy
Paul Feig’s dayglo satire about a world in which people hunt each other for cash offers axe battles and bruised testicles aplenty
Matt Damon and Casey Affleck steal the spotlight in crime comedy The Instigators — review
Director Doug Liman lets his stars’ rapport come through as they play a pair of blue-collar robbers
Tuesday film review — Julia Louis-Dreyfus and a parrot star in wrenching tear-jerker
A curious new film set in London explores family, illness and death