This week's new films

Cell 211. Photograph: Jose Haro

Sometimes all you need is a great set-up: a prison guard, first day on the job, gets trapped in a cell just as a riot breaks out, and must therefore pose as an inmate to survive. It's better not to know where this tough Spanish thriller goes from there, but rest assured you're in very good hands. There's tightrope tension and breakneck pace, but wider questions of honour and justice unfold, too – everything you could ask for, in fact.

Having sat through the deathly dullness of Part 1, here's our reward: a rousing finale that strikes all the right notes, ties up 10 years' worth of loose ends, plunges you into 3D battle, and perhaps even wrings the odd tear – all without inducing effects fatigue. Great sequel, when's Part 3?

Basking in the lush Turkish countryside, but by no means oversweetening the mix, this tender drama follows a painfully shy boy forced out of his shell when his honey-gatherer father disappears in the forest. It's a little slow, but often wondrous to look at.

Fisher plays a man who walks out on his family, but his introspective solo odyssey is hijacked by an overbearing Irish misfit (Gillen), and becomes an eccentric odd-couple drama instead – which is refreshing.

Truer to its faux grindhouse trailer roots than Machete, this trashy 1980s-style street justice thriller maintains an admirably straight face. Hauer's face, on the other hand, has seen better days, but he's commendably game for an entrail-strewn shoot-up.

The life of the troubled chess champion rendered through oral history and lively graphics, with the focus on his big cold war showdown with Boris Spassky in 1972. That leaves little time to go into Fischer's later psychological problems, but his complex personality emerges all the same.

Putting faces to anonymous direct-action groups, this documentary follows British environmental activists such as Plane Stupid on their imaginatively risky direct action campaigns, and hears their justifications. Being on the inside, it's far from a neutral account, but the access is illuminating.

Three buddies bond and bicker on an expensive road-trip holiday in this Hindi dramedy.

Break My Fall.

Break My Fall

East London hipsters trawl the night.

Beginners

Ewan McGregor in a downbeat LA drama.

Horrible Bosses

Jason Bateman and friends plot workplace vengeance.

Cars 2

Spy thriller for junior petrolheads.

The Big Picture

Romain Duris leads a Tell No One-like French thriller.

One Life

Daniel Craig narrates a BBC wildlife doc.

The Violent Kind

Biker teens face demonic evil in this lo-fi horror.

Gilda

Rita Hayworth burns up the screen in the immortal 1940s noir.

The Lavender Hill Mob

Reissue for the lovable Ealing crime caper.

Singham

Ajay Devgan leads an Indian action thriller.

In two weeks … Here comes Captain America: The First Avenger … Studio Ghibli's take on The Borrowers, Arrietty …

In three weeks … JJ Abrams's Spielbergian monster movie Super 8 … Charlotte Gainsbourg leads family drama The Tree …

In a month … Double monkey trouble with chimp doc Project Nim and prequel The Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes …

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