Adapted from the popular novel by Niall Williams, Four Letters of Love pairs two coming-of-age tales with plenty of sincerity but not much style.

Andrew DeYoung’s debut starring Paul Rudd and Tim Robinson as two neighbours in a doomed bromance occasionally over-stretches its gags, but Robinson is pure cringe perfection.

Athina Rachel Tsangari’s visceral historical drama about the undoing of a rural British community shines in its gorgeous, disorienting details.

Across the world, directors have used the heatwave as a metaphor for urban disaffection, abandonment and unrest. Outside of cities, blistering heat feels like nature’s violent reckoning with those too ...