Michael Mann’s Manhunter, his 1986 adaptation of Thomas Harris’s Red Dragon, returns in a director’s “final cut” for its 40th anniversary. The review praises its bold, unsettling atmosphere and Brian Cox’s restrained Hannibal Lecktor, while judging it less developed than The Silence of the Lambs and ultimately more of a prelude to that later classic.

The film follows traumatised FBI profiler Will Graham, played by William Petersen, as he seeks Lecktor’s help to catch serial killer Francis Dollarhyde, the “Tooth Fairy”. Its striking details include Dollarhyde’s relationship with blind co-worker Reba, a bizarre tiger encounter, and the doomed tabloid journalist Freddy Lounds; the re-release reaches UK and Irish cinemas on 25 September.