Five star - Latest Top Rated Film Reviews from the Guardian

Rocketman review – Elton's sparkliest spectacle yet
Taron Egerton is terrific as the singer, but the real star of this electric biopic is director Dexter Fletcher - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood review - Tarantino's dazzling LA redemption song
With Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt playing a TV actor and stuntman who cross paths with the Manson cult, Tarantino has created outrageous, disorientating entertainment - Peter Bradshaw
Portrait of a Lady on Fire review – burning desires and flashes of Hitchcock
Girlhood director Céline Sciamma’s gripping 18th-century story of obsession demonstrates a new mastery of classical style - Peter Bradshaw
The Lighthouse review – Robert Pattinson shines in sublime maritime nightmare
For his follow-up to The Witch, Robert Eggers launches a salty story of two men trapped in a turret - Peter Bradshaw
Sorry We Missed You review – Ken Loach's superb swipe at zero-hours Britain
The I, Daniel Blake director raises his game yet further with this gut-wrenching tale of a delivery worker driven to the brink - Peter Bradshaw
Dr Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb review – still a blast
Age has not withered the queasy nightmare of Stanley Kubrick’s nuclear holocaust satire, starring Peter Sellers at the peak of his powers - Peter Bradshaw
High Life review – Robert Pattinson electrifies in sci-fi odyssey
An evil doctor and a monkish man consider their crimes in space in Claire Denis’s stirring English-language debut - Simran Hans
Hugh Jackman live review – he really is the Greatest Showman
The renaissance man’s song-and-dance spectacular skips merrily through his acting career with celebrity pizzazz and unashamed sentimentality - Mark Fisher
Amazing Grace review – euphoric vision of Aretha Franklin's gospel glory
This documentary, shot during recording sessions by the charismatic queen of soul in a Los Angeles church, is a transcendent joy - Peter Bradshaw
High Life review – Robert Pattinson heads to infinity and beyond
An astronaut on an odyssey to a distant black hole faces the challenges of parenting – and existential panic – in Claire Denis’ mysterious drama - Peter Bradshaw
Rosmersholm review – Atwell and Burke are breathtaking in Ibsen masterpiece
Duncan Macmillan’s deft but daring tweaks underline the majesty of this sexually charged study of faith and heartbreak - Michael Billington
XY Chelsea review – in search of the real Chelsea Manning
A documentary about the trans activist and ex-army intelligence officer is intriguing but lacks wider context - Simran Hans
Booksmart review – fast, funny and feminist
A dorky schoolgirl duo try out partying when they discover that studying doesn’t pay quite enough - Simran Hans
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection review – Superbrat court in the act
The tempestuous tennis star wages war against the world in documentary-maker Julien Faraut’s philosophical portrait - Mike McCahill
Matthias & Maxime review – Xavier Dolan's heartfelt tale of male longing
Two friends’ playful kiss rekindles suppressed feelings in a film swept along by rattling dialogue and simmering tensions - Peter Bradshaw
Aladdin review – live-action remake really takes flight
Guy Ritchie’s adaptation is lively, colourful and genuinely funny – making only judicious tweaks to the original, it’s thankfully not a whole new world - Steve Rose
Parasite review – creepy invasion of the lifestyle snatchers
Bong Joon-ho’s bizarre black comedy about a rich Korean family and a poor one in a modern-day Downton Abbey situation gets its tendrils in you - Peter Bradshaw
La Gomera (The Whistlers) review – thrilling Romanian corrupt-cop noir
A bent detective becomes entangled in the crimes he’s investigating in Corneliu Porumboiu’s nifty, twisty drama - Peter Bradshaw
Diego Maradona review – flashy study of football's flawed genius
Asif Kapadia, director of Amy and Senna, captures all the euphoria and catastrophe in a gripping documentary about the ‘hand of God’ megastar - Peter Bradshaw
Birds of Passage review – powerful Colombian drug trade saga
An indigenous family are torn apart by the marijuana boom - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
Beats review – raving against the dying of the light
Two teenagers find their friendship tested in Brian Welsh’s terrific evocation of 90s Britain - Wendy Ide
Port Authority review – a heartfelt and sensual trans love story
Fresh off the bus in New York, a young man struggles with his attractions to a transgender dancer and the city’s flamboyant kiki ballroom scene - Peter Bradshaw
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum review – the art of action
The spectacular third instalment in Keanu Reeves’s fighting franchise overwhelms with opulent martial arts set pieces - Wendy Ide
Too Old to Die Young review - Nicolas Winding Refn's dead-eyed LA nightmare
The Only God Forgives director has made his first foray into TV with a supernatural noir series, and it’s just as horrible and upsetting as you’d expect - Peter Bradshaw
Pain and Glory review – life meets art in Almodóvar's wistful extravaganza
The director delivers another sensuous and deeply personal gem as Antonio Banderas’s ageing film-maker faces up to death - Peter Bradshaw
Atlantique review – African oppression meets supernatural mystery
Mati Diop’s feature debut forces young Senegalese lovers to choose between love, duty and servitude, then adds a surreal twist - Peter Bradshaw
Bacurau review – ultraviolent freakout in Brazil's outback
This disquieting horror-style western about a town under siege from a mysterious threat is executed with ruthless clarity - Peter Bradshaw
Birds of Passage review – dark odyssey to the heart of the drugs trade
Ciro Guerra’s poetic – and shocking – drama about marijuana trafficking in Colombia digs deep into the culture of the indigenous people involved - Peter Bradshaw
Amazing Grace review – soul-shaking gospel from Aretha Franklin
A spellbinding performance by the singer is captured in Sydney Pollack’s 1972 film - Mark Kermode
Madeline’s Madeline review – feverish psychological thriller
A vulnerable drama student is exploited by her teacher in this experimental drama from Josephine Decker - Simran Hans
Pokémon Detective Pikachu review – game spinoff delivers retro CGI thrills
The Ryan Reynolds-voiced adventure seamlessly merges animation and live action - Simran Hans
Ian McKellen review – heartfelt hilarity from a crusader of the stage
Shakespeare, wizards and panto dames all play their part in an evening of autobiography that is a love letter to theatre - Michael Billington
Madeline's Madeline review – teenager's troubles take centre stage
In this absorbing, weirdly moving drama, Molly Parker plays a theatre director throwing the spotlight on her young star’s mental health issues - Peter Bradshaw
Wine Country review – Amy Poehler's Netflix comedy is a drunken riot
The actor makes her directorial debut with a wine-soaked gem about a group of women trying to keep their friendship together during a weekend away - Benjamin Lee
Long Shot review – crowd-pleasing charm bomb
Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen are a joy in a sharp, rapid-fire romcom - Wendy Ide
Woman at War review – the mother of all green goddesses
Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir is brilliant in this jet-black comedy about a woman fighting to save the planet and adopt a child at the same time - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
Yesterday review – Richard Curtis' magical mystery tour of a world without the Beatles
A hopeless songwriter wakes up to find he’s the only person who can remember the Fab Four’s hits in a wacky, winning comedy directed by Danny Boyle - Peter Bradshaw
See You Yesterday review – poignant time travel caper is a Netflix win
This engaging, often ingenious, Spike Lee-produced adventure sees two teens try to stop a police shooting by going back in time - Benjamin Lee
Irene’s Ghost review – a son's moving quest for the mother he lost
In his profound documentary, Iain Cunningham talks to people who knew his late mum – before discovering what happened to her - Cath Clarke
The Secret Life of Pets 2 review – so-so sequel
Laughs are thinner on the ground in a story that pitches the animated chums into unfamiliar territory - Simran Hans
It Must Be Heaven review – Palestine's holy fool lives the dream
The latest satire-fable from Elia Suleiman is as droll as ever, but while there’s a kernel of seriousness here it too often lapses into elusive mannerism - Peter Bradshaw
The Traitor review – the real goodfellas: Cosa Nostra on trial
There are some show-stopping scenes in Bellocchio’s handsome true-crime movie about mafia informants - Peter Bradshaw
The Secret Life of Pets 2 review – return of the funny furry friends
In this wittier and less frenetic sequel, the arrival of a newborn baby upends the world of pampered pooch Max - Cath Clarke
The Perfection review – gory Netflix horror offers imperfect intrigue
Get Out’s Allison Williams plays a mysterious cellist in an intermittently alluring yet flatly directed B-movie that tries too hard to shock - Benjamin Lee
Too Late to Die Young review – misty tale of a changing Chile
A teenager seeks to escape from her remote commune just after the fall of Pinochet in this atmospheric but elusive drama - Phil Hoad
Brightburn review – effectively nasty horror subverts Superman narrative
A superhero’s origin tale gets a gory upgrade in this snappy, and mostly entertaining, antidote to superhero fatigue - Benjamin Lee
XY Chelsea review – extreme closeup on Chelsea Manning's complex life
This intimate documentary hammers home the emotional rollercoaster Manning has lived through, but is frustratingly vague on her role as a whistleblower - Steve Rose
Inquiring Nuns review – sisters do a documentary for themselves
In this engaging film, two innocent, smiling nuns hit the streets of Chicago in 1968 to ask its citizens how happy they are - Phil Hoad
Young Ahmed review – subtle and timely tale of radicalisation
This powerful film from the Dardenne brothers, about a Muslim boy living in a small Belgian town who is attracted to dangerous ideologies - Peter Bradshaw
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button review – folk musical beats the movie
A stunning cast sing, play and even puppeteer as the life-lived-backwards tale is relocated to Cornwall in ingenious style - John Lewis
A Hidden Life review – Terrence Malick's rhapsody to a conscientious objector
Malick’s second film about the second world war is a high-minded hymn to modern saint that never quite comes to life - Peter Bradshaw
Tucked review – a fabulous tale of love, death and sequins
A dying drag queen forges an unlikely friendship with a young cabaret star - Wendy Ide
Family Romance review – Herzog's 'fake family' film is fascinating but fishy
Werner Herzog has taken a strange reality – the Japanese company which hires out stand-in friends and relatives – and pointlessly subverted it further - Peter Bradshaw
The Wild Goose Lake review – Diao Yinan's shady lady noir is no quacker
The Chinese director’s followup to his Berlin-winning 2014 drama proves absorbing, original – and psychologically limited - Peter Bradshaw
Ama-San review – a deep dive into Japan's fisherwomen culture
Cláudia Varejão’s camera embark’s on an enigmatic and occasionally baffling study of a hypnotic world - Leslie Felperin
Ferrante Fever review – enticing portrait of a literary sensation
Elizabeth Strout, Jonathan Franzen and others on mysterious author Elena Ferrante’s work and persona - Leslie Felperin
Rocketman review – Elton John biopic that's better at the tiaras than the tantrums
Taron Egerton does a good impression of the flamboyant musician in this sucrose treatment, a by-the-numbers approach authorised by Elton himself - Peter Bradshaw
Beats review – blissed-out flashbacks to the 90s rave scene
Beginning in kitchen-sink territory on a Scottish estate, this teen bromance eventually escapes into amiable nostalgia and artful euphoria - Mike McCahill
Tucked review – moving tale of a dying drag queen
Derren Nesbitt is terrific as an ageing club performer who rescues a young singer from homophobic attackers - Cath Clarke
John Wick: Chapter 3: Parabellum review – franchise bloat for Keanu Reeves' hitman
Third chunk of the ultraviolent series has its customary of balletic violence and delusional grandeur, but its no longer so light on its feet - Cath Clarke
Les Misérables review – savvy cop procedural swerves into molotov mayhem
Ladj Ly’s debut feature is a police drama set in a tough Paris suburb that loses subtlety as it erupts into violence - Peter Bradshaw
My Days of Mercy review – death penalty drama, with added romance
Ellen Page is fighting to save her father from lethal injection when she falls for Kate Mara’s pro-execution lawyer - Phil Hoad
Pick of the Litter review – heartwarming dogumentary
Labrador puppies compete for the title of cutest canine in this daft but delightful film about would-be guide dogs - Phil Hoad
The Dead Don't Die review – stumbling zombie comedy kicks off Cannes
Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Chloë Sevigny lead Jim Jarmusch’s droll but directionless opening nighter - Peter Bradshaw
Trial by Fire review – old-fashioned death row drama pulses with anger
Jack O’Connell and Laura Dern impress in a sturdy, no-frills retelling of an enraging true story about a man who might have been wrongfully convicted of killing his children - Benjamin Lee
Destination Wedding review – Ryder and Reeves carry caustic romance
Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves entertain as they sell us the ‘myth’ of love - Simran Hans
Dead Good review – breathing life into the funeral business
From leopard-print coffins to camper-van hearses, this engaging documentary offers surprising and enlightening views of how we say our final farewells - Mike McCahill
Strike review – Mungo the mole goes for goal
A mole’s life is sportingly transformed by goggles that give him 20/20 vision in this modestly entertaining animation - Cath Clarke
Diamantino review – delightfully daft football fantasy
A disgraced world-class striker’s life descends into chaos as he adopts a child refugee, becomes a vote-leave poster boy – and gets cloned by the government - Cath Clarke
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile review – Zac Efron has murderous charm
Joe Berlinger’s drama examines serial killer Ted Bundy through the eyes of the two women who loved him - Wendy Ide
Vox Lux review – a star in the unmaking
A school-shooting survivor becomes a burned-out pop diva in a wobbly meditation on fame and notoriety - Wendy Ide
Long Shot review – Seth Rogen gets Charlize Theron's vote
Laughs ensue when a presidential hopeful is reunited with the teenager – now a speechwriter – whom she once babysat - Mike McCahill
The Quiet One review – controversial and evasive Bill Wyman documentary
An underdeveloped look at the life of the former Rolling Stone has led to outrage over its portrayal of an alleged sexual predator - Jim Farber
Pokémon Detective Pikachu review – Ryan Reynolds grabs film by scruff of the neck
The inspired casting of the Deadpool actor transforms this from an average Pokémon movie into fun family fare - Steve Rose
Tolkien review – affecting biopic of the Lord of the Rings creator
This refreshing origins story traces the early life of JRR Tolkien at Oxford and in love and war - Peter Bradshaw
Aladdin review – can’t put the genie back in the bottle
Guy Ritchie’s live-action remake of the 90s Disney animation fails to capture the magic - Simran Hans
Sybil review – silly comedy about a psychotherapist breaking all the rules
Justine Triet makes her Cannes competition debut with this unconvincing film about an alcoholic therapist who mines a patient’s life for drama - Peter Bradshaw
Mektoub My Love: Intermezzo review – an arthouse Love Island
Abdellatif Kechiche takes his love story sequel to a nightclub for hot sex, but blows its cinephile credentials in four hours of indulgent sweat - Peter Bradshaw
Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock’n’Roll review – not Bossing it
A minor bit of Bruce Springsteenology, halfway between a televisual ‘classic albums’ episode and a presentation from the Asbury Park, NJ, Chamber of Commerce - Mike McCahill
Oh Mercy! review – self-admiring French murder drama
Roschdy Zem is an annoyingly wise police captain in northern France, as Arnauld Desplechin’s lofty pretensions fatally split the tone of his new crime film - Peter Bradshaw
Memoir of War review – Parisian wartime drama fails to ignite
The tale of a woman whose husband is caught by the Nazis muffles the fury and anger of Marguerite Duras’ book - Cath Clarke
Wounds review – crassly unsubtle mobile-phone horror
Armie Hammer is a New Orleans bartender sucked through a cosmic portal in a J-horror-influenced misfire by Under the Shadow’s Babak Anvari - Peter Bradshaw
Lux Æterna review – self-parodic silliness from Gaspar Noé
Noé’s mockumentary about a movie shoot going horribly wrong goes … horribly wrong - Peter Bradshaw
Pick of the Litter review – the pull of puppies
It’s impossible not to get caught up in this heavy-handed doc about trainee guide dogs for the blind - Wendy Ide
Joan of Arc review – child warrior on the march in an absurdist pageant
Lise Leplat Prudhomme has undoubted charisma as the doomed heroine, but Bruno Dumont’s dead-straight biopic is passionless and exasperating - Peter Bradshaw
Little Joe review – Ben Whishaw left in the shade by wilting triffid horror
The talents of an able cast are dismayingly wasted as Jessica Hausner’s chiller fails to deliver on its premise - Peter Bradshaw
Breakthrough review – dreary real-life 'resurrection' drama
A teenager declared dead after falling through the ice is miraculously brought back to life in this undistinguished faith-based tale - Mike McCahill
Against the Tides review – extreme swimming doc is all at sea
The story of aquatic athlete Beth French’s courageous oceanic quest is sunk by an unexpected turn of events - Leslie Felperin
PAW Patrol: Mighty Pups review – headaches galore as Chase is on the case
Nickelodeon’s animated heroes come to the rescue of hapless humans in a big-screen adventure strictly for the under-fives - Cath Clarke
The Hustle review – sugar daddy scam
Anne Hathaway steals the comic honours in this gender-swap version of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Simran Hans
The Corrupted review – lively gangland pulp in the shadow of the London Olympics
Sam Claflin stars in a striking-looking film set in east London, but it’s all sold short by ropey storytelling and dodgy dialogue - Mike McCahill
Destination Wedding review – fizz-free flirtation from Reeves and Ryder
Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder play a hate-at-first-sight outsiders doomed to fall in love flatly in this nuptials no-hoper - Cath Clarke
Where Hands Touch review – misjudged interracial Nazi-era romance
Amandla Stenberg plays a biracial teenager who falls for a young German officer in Amma Asante’s uncomfortable second world war drama - Peter Bradshaw
Final Ascent: The Legend of Hamish MacInnes review – portrait of a mountain man
This loving documentary charting the polymath mountaineer’s life, including a recent health crisis, offers few insights into wider issues - Leslie Felperin
Tolkien review – lumpen life story
The magic is missing from this biopic of the Lord of the Rings author - Wendy Ide
A Dog’s Journey review – corny canine caper
Bailey the body-hopping hound bounds back in this unashamed agglomeration of poop jokes and puppy eyes - Mike McCahill
The Curse of La Llorona review – supernatural sleepover fodder
This unscary, 70s-set horror about a child-killing ghost is a formulaic genre dirge - Benjamin Lee
Frankie review – Ira Sachs' bickering poshos bore us to tears
Isabelle Huppert sleepwalks through a film that proves even great directors are capable of crimes against cinema - Peter Bradshaw
The Hustle review – Anne Hathaway kills the comedy in dire scam caper
A gender-switch reboot of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels co-starring Rebel Wilson is catastrophically unfunny - Peter Bradshaw
Poms review – Diane Keaton turns cheerleader in cheer-free comedy
A frothy tale of retirees starting a cheerleading group wastes the talents of its cast and fails to provide the crowd-pleasing moments it so desperately needs - Benjamin Lee