Six films to watch this week

Bradley Cooper stars as Leonard Bernstein in ‘Maestro’; Disney fairy tale ‘Wish’ marks the studio’s centenary; Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke face Airbnb apocalypse in ‘Leave the World Behind’; Tilda Swinton takes two roles in ghostly chiller ‘The Eternal Daughter’; Joaquin Phoenix stars in Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’; Todd Haynes’s ‘May December’ pits Natalie Portman against Julianne Moore — reviews by Danny Leigh and Jonathan Romney

Maestro film review — Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein is electric and intelligent
The director masters rhythm and mood while ebulliently starring as the conductor alongside Carey Mulligan
Wish film review — a cautious Disney fairy tale caught between old and new
Lavish animation is designed to celebrate studio’s past century without ruffling contemporary feathers
Leave the World Behind film review — Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke face Airbnb apocalypse
A luxury getaway on Long Island is blighted by bad WiFi — and even worse — in a film that upends archetypes
The Eternal Daughter film review — double Tilda Swinton haunts ghostly hotel chiller
Eerie story — with humour and hound — is an unexpected but welcome departure for British filmmaker Joanna Hogg
Napoleon film review — Ridley Scott’s lairy epic of military genius and rapid-fire sex
Joaquin Phoenix portrays an all-conquering but cuckolded emperor opposite Vanessa Kirby’s brittle Josephine
May December film review — Natalie Portman inhabits Julianne Moore in arch comic drama
Todd Haynes’s intensely meta film follows an actor preparing to play a convicted sex offender