Grimsby, Secret in Their Eyes, The Forest and more: This week's new movie releases reviewed

You can see our review of the week's biggest release, Grimsby, here. (Short version: it's filthy and cheerfully lowbrow but hilarious.)

But what else is out this week? Friday's new releases include a Keanu Reeves thriller, a Richard Gere drama, a coming-of-age indie, a supernatural horror and a Hollywood remake of a Best Foreign Film Oscar winner.

King Jack (15)

A confident debut for US writer-director Felix Thompson, this engaging and beautifully shot coming-of-age indie has already proven a hit on the festival circuit. Set over the course of a summer weekend in working class Hudson Valley, New York, the film stars newcomer Charlie Plummer as 15 year-old Jack, who falls foul of a vicious local bully while charged with looking after his pudgy younger cousin.

Thompson's sensitive script perfectly captures the various rites-of-passage pains of adolescence (you'll be thankful no-one had mobiles when you were that age) and Plummer proves a proper star in the making.

Exposed (15)

Anyone jonesing for more Keanu Reeves thriller action after the delightful surprise that was John Wick would be best advised to steer well clear of this monumentally dull mystery drama. Keanu sleep-walks (How can you tell? Etc) through his part as a New York cop investigating the murder of his crooked partner, while a seemingly unrelated parallel storyline involves Ana de Armas (Reeves's co-star in Knock Knock) as a beautiful young woman experiencing strange visions.

Re-titled and re-edited by producers to the point where director Gee Malik Linton had his name removed, this isn't even enjoyable in a so-bad-it's-good way.

The Benefactor (15)

Formerly known as Franny, this poorly paced drama from writer-director Andrew Renzi will sorely test your tolerance for an over-the-top Richard Gere performance. He plays twinkly-eyed Philadelphia philanthropist and secret morphine addict Francis 'Franny' Watts, who showers newly-married Olivia (Dakota Fanning) in lavish financial gifts, driven by guilt over his role in the accident that killed her parents.

As written, Franny is an exceptionally irritating character and the film struggles to engage as a result, though it does have a great don't-try-this-at-home scene in which Gere slices off his thumb in a misguided attempt to score drugs at the hospital.

The Forest (15)

Game of Thrones' Natalie Dormer pulls double duty in this stylishly shot supernatural horror from debut director Jason Zada, in which she plays a woman searching for her missing twin sister in Japan's Aokigahara "Suicide Forest".

Dormer is on fine form as Sara / Jess and the film has a nice line in creeping paranoia as well as some jaw-droppingly beautiful location work (beat the rush and book that camping holiday now), but the pacing is off and the disappointingly familiar plot fails to truly terrify, with a not-as-nasty-as-it-wants-to-be finale that feels fatally compromised by the film's certificate.

Secret in Their Eyes (15)

Unfortunately screened too late for review deadline purposes, this US remake of Argentine director Juan José Campanella's 2009 Oscar-winning thriller stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman as a tight-knit team of FBI investigators torn apart by a brutal, unsolved murder.

Released Stateside last November, the film performed relatively poorly at the box office (capping out at $20m) and has so far picked up only middling reviews, most of which seem to agree that the film adds nothing to the original other than its admittedly classy cast, with both Roberts and Ejiofor singled out for praise.