The title of Penny Woolcock's documentary refers to the distance separating two Birmingham postcodes, the turfs of rival gangs Burger Bar Boys and the Johnson crew who between them have made the city notorious for stabbings and shootings.

Philipp Stölzl made an excellent mountaineering picture in North Face but has fallen head first off the cliff with this feeble and perfunctory action thriller.

This no-budget drama about Irish travellers begins with a two-horse chariot race along a motorway – Ben O'Hur, if you will – in which the victor no sooner crosses the line than he's gunned down.

The first GI Joe picture in 2009 grossed more than $300m, so this sequel was always a formality. Based on the toy (our Action Man), it displays a level of intelligence that will not tax a 12-year-old boy.

Seventies Belfast lacked folk heroes, but this drama argues for one in the unlikely character of Terri Hooley, one-eyed owner of the Good Vibrations record shop on Great Victoria Street, "the most bombed half-mile in Europe".

François Ozon's In the House plays games with narrative, though in a more beguiling literary fashion than cinema usually allows.

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The Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho has made a haunting and enigmatic feature debut in Neighbouring Sounds. For much of its running time it plays like a weird soap opera without a plot. Set in the middle-class suburb of Recife on the northeastern coast of Brazil, it casually depicts routines of humdrum domestic life that nevertheless imply some sinister meaning beneath. What it is will not be revealed until almost the last scene.