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Sacha Baron Cohen takes Ali G to America for a crude, hit-and-miss hidden-camera comeback that is sometimes hilarious but keeps stopping to explain its own joke.
Watch the Focker In-Law featurette A Look Inside. Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro and Ariana Grande; UK cinemas from 25 November.
Rob Riggle’s rogue Santa and a game cast can’t save Kevin Lewis’s Christmas horror-comedy, a muddled neighbours-from-hell romp that leaves its gore far too late.
Martin McDonagh sends John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell’s CIA men to Easter Island in a bittersweet, foul-mouthed buddy comedy. Familiar, but Malkovich is magnificent.
Watch the trailer for The 12 Dates of Christmas, reuniting Lucy Hale and Ian Harding, on Hulu from 6 November and Disney+ internationally.
Watch the official trailer for The Man with the Bag, with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Santa and Alan Ritchson as his thief, on Prime Video from 2 December.
TRICK OR EAT, Movieversalfilm’s new original short film: three alien visitors, Vex, Pip and Bort, land on a quiet English allotment on Halloween night.
Keke Palmer is magnetic in Boots Riley’s riotous, surreal shoplifting satire, a colourful attack on the fashion industry that is bursting with ideas, even when they don’t all fit.
Watch the Sweetpea season 2 trailer: Ella Purnell returns as Rhiannon Lewis in Sky’s darkly comic thriller, on Sky and NOW from 26 November.
Watch the Cunk on Cinema trailer: Diane Morgan’s Philomena Cunk takes on the history of film, with Michael Bay and Benedict Cumberbatch in the hot seat.
Watch the new Jumanji: Open World trailer as Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan face a game loose in our world. UK cinemas 23 December.
Netflix’s SCTV documentary trailer: Jason Hehir tells how the sketch show that launched Candy, Levy, Short and O’Hara made history. On Netflix 30 October.
Saoirse Ronan’s teacher locks up her most disruptive pupil in the Bad Apples trailer. The dark comedy reached UK cinemas in September; US digital 3 November.
Chris Pratt’s Navy SEAL trains his bullied nephew in the new Way of the Warrior Kid trailer. McG’s family film premieres on Apple TV on 25 November.
Sky has released the teaser for The Trip to the Northern Lights, reuniting Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in Scandinavia. It arrives on Sky and NOW in December.
Winter reaches episode four on ITV1 tonight, The World’s End plays on Film4, and Varada Sethu’s Doctor Who debut is on BBC iPlayer.
