Six films to watch this week

LaKeith Stanfield is a false messiah in ‘The Book of Clarence’; Johnny Depp plays the king to Maïwenn’s mistress in ‘Jeanne du Barry’; Daisy Ridley shows a dark side in ‘Sometimes I Think About Dying’; ‘Fantastic Machine’ chronicles screen history from Lumière brothers to TikTok; ‘Civil War’ stars Kirsten Dunst in a near-future American conflagration; Sam Taylor-Johnson directs Amy Winehouse biopic ‘Back to Black’ — reviews by Danny Leigh and Jonathan Romney

The Book of Clarence film review — raucous stoner comedy comes to biblical Jerusalem
LaKeith Stanfield stars in a false messiah farce that is not quite a second coming of ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian’
Jeanne du Barry film review — Maïwenn stars and Johnny Depp murmurs in vague Versailles drama
Story of the courtesan and lover of Louis XV is heavily wigged and perfumed but the heroine remains an enigma
Sometimes I Think About Dying film review — Daisy Ridley shows her quiet side in eerie comedy-drama
The ‘Star Wars’ star gives a finely calibrated performance as a solitary Oregon office worker with a morbid dream life
Fantastic Machine film review — screen history from the Lumières to YouTube erotica and Isis bloopers
Swedish-Danish documentary deploys an eclectic barrage of clips for an earnest study
Civil War film review — Apocalypse Now goes TikTok in a grandly tasteless disaster movie
Kirsten Dunst is terrifically real as a photojournalist while director Alex Garland glibly plays peekaboo with reality
Back to Black film review — no no no to this syrupy Amy Winehouse biopic
Sam Taylor-Johnson paints the singer as a chronic romantic but mostly misses her moxie, wit — and demons