Six films to watch this week

Retro porn-horror ‘MaXXXine’ stars Mia Goth; Eddie Murphy returns in ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’; Tilda Swinton stars in the inventive but problematic ‘Problemista’; 20 trans and non-binary actors recast Virginia Woolf’s classic with ‘Orlando: My Political Biography’; Yorgos Lanthimos directs Emma Stone again in ‘Kinds of Kindness’; Lupita Nyong’o stars in sci-fi horror prequel ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’

MaXXXine film review — Mia Goth is after stardom in retro slasher horror
Ti West shows a deadly eye for droll detail in follow-up to ‘X’ and ‘Pearl’
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F film review — Eddie Murphy returns in nostalgic knockabout sequel
The Detroit disrupter’s troublemaking shtick hasn’t changed 30 years on — and the material’s age is showing
Problemista film review — Tilda Swinton overdoes it in inventive but infuriating comedy
Julio Torres directs and stars in caper about an aspiring Salvadorean toymaker and a demanding English art critic
Orlando: My Political Biography film review — entertaining manifesto channels Virginia Woolf
Twenty trans and non-binary people recount their experiences through the guise of the time-travelling protagonist
Kinds of Kindness film review — Yorgos Lanthimos’s tricksy triptych is anything but tender
Jesse Plemons, Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe shape-shift wildly in three tangled tales of confusion and cruelty
A Quiet Place: Day One film review — silence is golden as murderous aliens wreak havoc
The third film in the series is a predictable prequel but still offers tension