Six films to watch this week ‘American Pickle’, ‘Young Ahmed’, ‘Papicha’, ‘Perfect 10’, ‘Proxima’ and ‘Make Up’ — reviewed by Danny Leigh and Raphael Abraham © Hopper Stone/SMPSP An American Pickle — two Seth Rogens in an immigrant’s life of brineThis screen adaptation of a 2013 comic novella is charming and often pinpoint funny A teenager is in thrall to radical Islam in Young AhmedThe Dardenne brothers’ film is typically stark and vivid Papicha — hedonism, hijabs and broken dreamsA group of defiant young women collide with conservative forces in this Algiers-set drama Perfect 10 — a teenage gymnast finds the odds stacked against herEva Riley’s debut feature never reaches for easy virtue or sweetness Proxima — a space movie for our timesAlice Winocour’s film stars Eva Green as an astronaut preparing for a mission to Mars Make Up — goosebumps and tingles in this Cornwall-set filmA young woman heads to an end-of-season caravan park in Claire Oakley’s bold movie
