The Outsiders review – Coppola’s Brat Pack melodrama carries you away
Patrick Swayze and Rob Lowe star in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 movie that comes crashing back on screen - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarAzor review – eerie conspiracy thriller about the complacency of the super-rich
Andreas Fontana’s debut feature is an unnervingly subtle drama about a Swiss private banker visiting clients in Argentina during the period of the military junta and ‘disappearances’ - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarBelfast review – Kenneth Branagh’s euphoric eulogy to his home city
Nightmarishness meets nostalgia as Jamie Dornan and Judi Dench star in a scintillating Troubles-era coming-of-age tale - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Ape Woman review – freakshow satire with bizarre alternative-ending payoff
Watching both versions of this 1964 drama of Elephant Man-style exploitation reveals an impressive degree of tenderness and complexity - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarGetting Away With Murder(s) review – powerful call for Holocaust justice
David Nicholas Wilkinson’s epic investigation into the Nazis who escaped a postwar reckoning shows the difficulty of prosecuting this technocratic atrocity - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarNitram review – intensely disquieting and extraordinary Port Arthur massacre film
Justin Kurzel’s exploration of the lead-up to one of Australia’s worst mass shootings is a film of eerie, queasy foreboding - Luke Buckmaster
starstarstarstarstarNo Time to Die review – Daniel Craig dispatches James Bond with panache, rage – and cuddles
The long-awaited 25th outing for Ian Fleming’s superspy is a weird and self-aware epic with audacious surprises up its sleeve - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Green Knight review – a rich and wild fantasy
Dev Patel works his subtle magic in David Lowery’s enthralling take on the medieval tale of the questing Gawain - Mark Kermode Observer film critic
starstarstarstarstarThe Tragedy of Macbeth review – McDormand and Washington deliver noirish nightmare
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand hit top form in Joel Coen’s austere reimagining of Shakespeare’s Scottish bloodbath - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Green Knight review – Dev Patel rides high on sublimely beautiful quest
Director David Lowery conjures up visual wonders and metaphysical mysteries from the anonymously authored 14th-century chivalric poem - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Velvet Underground review – avant-garde cool brought back to life
Todd Haynes uses Warhol-style split screen for this ideally pitched documentary about the influential 60s band - Simran Hans
starstarstarstarstarear for eye review – Lashana Lynch goes head to head with structural racism
The new 007 conducts an agonisingly tense interrogation in the centrepiece of a three-part cine-prose-poem about racism from debbie tucker green - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Show review – Alan Moore brings vaudevillian dazzle to Northampton noir
Moore has created a Chandlerian shoal of red herrings, drawing viewers into a dark and dense mystery set in the very centre of England - Phil Hoad
starstarstarstarstarNever Gonna Snow Again review – rich brew of strangeness in unsettling suburbia
A mysterious masseur visits a dysfunctional gated community in this absorbing Polish fairytale - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmāo review – sisters fight the pain of patriarchy
This gorgeous and moving melodrama finds two women in 1950s Rio under suffocating family expectations – and sees what happens when they are defied - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarMy Little Sister review – terrific, prickly sibling drama
Starring two of Germany’s finest actors, this story of adult twins and their toxic mother packs a rare emotional punch - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarFever Dream review – a beautiful and bonkers future cult classic
Director Claudia Llosa returns to form with a woozy work about a cosy domesticity in rural Argentina shattered by uncanny intruders - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarThe Maid review – a giddy, gory satire that sticks it to the super-wealthy
Shadowy figures lurk in Lee Thongkham’s stylised horror, which wrongfoots the audience with jump scares aplenty - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarNight Drive review – LA car-boot caper pulls it out of the bag
A clever twist elevates this cynical but conventional crime thriller to another level – even if it comes late in the day - Phil Hoad
starstarstarstarstarPier Kids review – radically empathetic chronicle of queer Black youth
Elegance Bratton’s documentary about the gay and transgender haven of Manhattan’s Chelsea Piers shows a community under attack from all sides - Phuong Le
starstarstarstarstarFreakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr review – it’s all about the music
This warm-hearted profile of the US grunge-rockers doubles as a poignant rumination on friendship and personal growth – but gets its heft from the unpolished performance footage - Phuong Le
starstarstarstarstarOliver Sacks: His Own Life review – beautiful and honest study of an amazing man
Remarkable footage shows the pioneering neurologist at work in this excellent documentary - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarThe Alpinist review – intriguing insight into a maverick climber
The obsessive drive of the Canadian solo mountaineer Marc-André Leclerc is captured in this cliff-hanging documentary - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarBalloon review – trouble on the Tibetan steppes
A sheep farmer discovers she is pregnant again, despite China’s one-child policy, in this wry, delicate drama - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarGagarine review – teenage dreams on a doomed Paris housing estate
Youri tries to save his home – also named after the Soviet cosmonaut – from the bulldozers in this inspired feature debut - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarBalloon review – beauty and melancholy in Tibet’s sheep-herding life
Writer-director Pema Tseden tells this story of a clash between modernity and tradition as a woman is dismayed to find she is pregnant - Phuong Le
starstarstarstarstarGagarine review – close encounters of the banlieue kind
This mesmerising debut about a teenager looking to fix up his Paris estate passes up the usual angry social-realism in favour of something more celestial - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarSiberia review – Willem Dafoe and Abel Ferrara on fine freaky form
Dafoe has gravitas as a barkeep on a journey of delusion and epiphany in Ferrara’s glacial, woozy dream-odyssey - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Bacchus Lady review – Youn Yuh-jung leads tale of life on the margins in Seoul
The Oscar winner is a compelling lead in an unconventional drama about an ageing prostitute in the Korean capital - Phil Hoad
starstarstarstarstarRon’s Gone Wrong review – boy meets bot, bot beats bullies
This story of a young loner lent confidence by an animatronic accomplice is fun if familiar - Simran Hans
starstarstarstarstarThe Last Duel review – swordplay without subtlety
Ridley Scott gets bogged down in medieval mud and murk as he attempts to tell a rape-revenge story starring Jodie Comer, Matt Damon and Adam Driver - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
starstarstarstarstarBull review – a gangland revenge shocker with Neil Maskell on vicious form
You don’t expect soft from Maskell and you don’t get it, in Paul Andrew Williams’s queasy criminal underworld - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarI Am Belmaya review – uplifting story of a Nepali woman following her film-making dream
In the face of many obstacles, a Dalit woman proves her determination to forge a career as a film-maker - Phuong Le
starstarstarstarstarCorporate Accountability review – collaboration with Argentinian state terror exposed
Jonathan Perel’s low-key doc focuses on the companies, still in business, which collaborated with the killings and torture that followed 1976 coup - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarEarwig review – twisty body-horror noir threatens to bite
Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s first English-language feature is intriguing, but its nightmarish dentures slant needs a mouthful of narrative - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarRaphael Revealed review – 500th-anniversary survey of the Renaissance great
While we’re waiting for the delayed National Gallery extravaganza, this wide-ranging documentary relays the full breadth of Raphael’s achievements - Andrew Pulver
starstarstarstarstarKing Richard review – Will Smith serves up tennis stardom for Venus and Serena
Smith plays Richard Williams, the driven father of the US sporting sisters, in this well-crafted, authorised version of their story - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Last Duel review – storytelling with gusto in Ridley Scott’s medieval epic
Jodie Comer comes up against odious men played by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Adam Driver in a reverse rape-revenge parable set in 14th-century France - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarMothers of the Revolution review – emotional return to Greenham Common
With stirring testimony on offer from the organisers of the groundbreaking women’s peace camp, this doc doesn’t need its superfluous dramatic recreations - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarArracht review – Irish-language murder ballad of famine and injustice
Director Tomás Ó Súilleabháin’s beautifully shot film takes on one man’s battle with the British, but without judgment - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarThe Phantom of the Open review – Brit sporting underdog movie right on par
Mark Rylance stars in this amiably daft film about real-life golfing eccentric Maurice Flitcroft, who gatecrashed the British Open in the 70s - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Lodger review – Jacqueline Bisset’s slinky landlady holds key to lurid thriller
Bisset vamps it up as a white-haired femme fatale in this amusing and atmospheric French mystery - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarThe Beta Test review – shiny satire of Tinseltown culture is a study in smarm
Indie director Jim Cummings and co-star PJ McCabe have made a scornful part-thriller about an unctuous agent in thrall to the system - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarBarzakh review – atmospheric study of undocumented migrants in limbo
In the Spanish enclave of Melilla, young Moroccans share stories of survival while they await the next chapter of their lives - Phuong Le
starstarstarstarstarConvergence: Courage in a Crisis review – nine stories from the Covid frontlines
This pandemic film delivers emotional punch, but the documentary’s desire for a global message blunts its impact - Phil Hoad
starstarstarstarstarFever Dream review – slow-acting poison infuses Chile-set thriller
The unsettling atmosphere is the star of this Netflix adaptation of Samanta Schweblin’s debut novel - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarJohn and the Hole review – chillingly twisted coming-of-age fable
A teenager coolly assumes control of his family in this satirical thriller from Spanish artist Pascual Sisto - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
starstarstarstarstarRon’s Gone Wrong review – a cheeky tech spin on ET
A lonely boy and a sparky bot team up for in a tender film that dials up the charm but swerves the big-tech questions - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarC’mon C’mon review – Joaquin Phoenix heartwarmer is suspiciously polished
Tackling weighty themes and shot in classy monochrome, this coming-of-ager oozes prestige. But is it as deep as it seems? - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarMy Little Sister review – fierce and fraught family drama
Nina Hoss and Lars Eidinger give finely acted performances as they play twins brought back together through illness – but who is saving who? - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarFather of the Cyborgs review – the Indiana Jones of neuroscience
This film exploring the ideas of Dr Phil Kennedy, who had an electrode implanted in his brain, throws up interesting prospects for the human future - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Harder They Fall review – Idris Elba rides into trouble in garishly violent western
Jeymes Samuel’s gonzo revenge western, with a cast including Elba, Regina King, and Zazie Beetz is enjoyable, if face-splatteringly brutal - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarRide the Eagle review – fluffy US indie gets emotionally lost in the woods
Stoner Jake Johnson inherits a dream cabin from estranged mum Susan Sarandon, but her bequest comes with conditions - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarBaracoa review – innocently poetic journey through Cuban childhoods
This part fiction, part documentary film captures the spontaneity of young friends Leonel and Antuàn - Phuong Le
starstarstarstarstarRomantic Road review – upper-class boomers on a polite Bollywood adventure
An elderly English couple take a 5,000-mile road trip across India and Bangladesh in their Rolls-Royce in this gentle travel documentary - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarRedemption of a Rogue review – dark Irish humour in a suicide denied
After killing his abusive father, a son is thwarted in his own death by Dad’s strange will and a biblical storm - Simran Hans
starstarstarstarstarEven Mice Belong in Heaven review – hand-crafted puppets bond in paradise
A mouse and fox forge an unlikely friendship in the afterlife in this beautiful-looking stop-motion fable - Simran Hans
starstarstarstarstarNo Time to Die review – Daniel Craig’s Bond swan song takes aim at well-worn conventions
Craig’s final outing as the secret agent is too long and needs a better villain, but attempts at real change to the 007 formula feel fun and fresh - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarThe Beatles and India review – the fab four go looking for a guru
This engaging music doc recounts the time the band enjoyed a spiritual summer of love in Rishikesh, and briefly turned the whole world on to India - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarFrida. Viva la Vida review – impressionistic dive into Kahlo’s headspace
This unconventional and sometimes indulgent investigation of Frida Kahlo’s psyche via her paintings highlights the key themes of her life and work - Andrew Pulver
starstarstarstarstarFreshman Year review – mortifying mumblecore look at a student hookup
Cooper Raiff stars as an immature student awkwardly adjusting to college life – and the idea that love might not be easy to come by - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarNo One Gets Out Alive – a stylish Netflix immigration horror
A mostly impressive gothic chiller tells the story of an undocumented Mexican woman facing down sinister forces in Ohio - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarDementer review – unsettling low-budget care facility chiller
When Katie takes a job in a centre for people with Down’s syndrome, she’s the model carer – until the terrifying flashbacks start - Phil Hoad
starstarstarstarstarMeander review – rat-in-a-maze thriller gasping for fresh air
Gaia Weiss’s soulful heroine seeks a way out of a labyrinth in Mathieu Turi’s tense but formulaic thriller full of fiendish traps - Phil Hoad
starstarstarstarstarAttack of the Hollywood Clichés! review – Rob Lowe raises idiocy to a high art
Produced by Charlie Brooker, this jam-packed sendup of hackneyed film tropes – from The Baguette Rule to The Smurfette Principle – is a perfect hour of fluff and nonsense - Lucy Mangan
starstarstarstarstarRedemption of a Rogue review – deadpan Irish banter comes down like endless rain
Philip Doherty’s black comedy about a prodigal son returning to his hometown for a funeral goes big on self-satirising absurdism - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarEven Mice Belong in Heaven review – stop-motion voyage to animal afterlife
While it’s unusually candid about death, this Czech kids’ animation resorts to tedious quests and life lessons in lieu of a plot - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarAnne at 13,000ft review – a woman uses skydiving as therapy
Confident microbudget feature zones in on one woman’s unhappiness and how skydiving provides an unlikely but dramatic release - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Man Who Sold His Skin review – scathing Tunisian satire
The art world and society’s attitudes towards refugees are equally skewered in this powerful Oscar nominee - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarThe Many Saints of Newark review – the making of Tony Soprano
Michael Gandolfini follows in his father’s footsteps as the young Tony in a prequel that will resonate far more with fans of the TV series - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarBirds of Paradise review – Amazon’s ballet drama is no Black Swan
The Amazon drama, based on the book Bright Burning Stars, paints a too-chilly portrait of an erotic, competitive friendship between two ballerinas - Adrian Horton
starstarstarstarstarDune review – David Lynch’s intergalactic epic shoots for the moon
There are moments of dreamlike brilliance in this extravagant fable of imperialism – provided you can stay awake to see them - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Alpinist review – nerve-shredding climbing doc barely holds on to its subject
A portrait of Marc-André Leclerc, a sweet but audacious and fearless solo climber whom the film-makers can’t always get close to - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarSweetheart review – good-natured caravan-park romance
Nell Barlow is the long-suffering gay teenager who falls for a lifeguard on holiday in Marley Morrison’s likably wistful debut - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarIntrusion review – Netflix home invasion thriller passes muster
A vacant performance from Freida Pinto can’t quite sink a mostly enjoyable, if mostly familiar, domestic mystery - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarWarning review – sci-fi anthology like Black Mirror sketches that didn’t make the cut
Connected stories of a doomed AI-human hybrid future struggle to hang together - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarIn Our Paradise review – Bosnian migrant tale about sisters struggling to make it abroad
Claudia Marschal’s documentary about two sisters leaving the Balkans is short on the intimacy that film can deliver - Phuong Le
starstarstarstarstarVenom: Let There Be Carnage review – sufficient superhero sequel
Tom Hardy returns as journalist Eddie Brock and the alien who shares his body, played for daft laughs by director Andy Serkis - Simran Hans
starstarstarstarstarSardar Udham review – a blockbuster take on a political martyr and assassin
Shoojit Sircar’s flawed biopic tells the life of a young man shellshocked by the horrors of colonialism in Punjab - Phuong Le
starstarstarstarstarWhitetail review – Deliverance-style backwoods thriller in hock to macho survivalism
Entertaining but emotionally stunted film about a family hunting trip starts out with promising menace but gets bogged down in a thicket of dialogue - Phil Hoad
starstarstarstarstarAngeliena review – car park worker dreams of getaway in cartoonish South African drama
Thin characterisation and a superficial critique of wealth inequality post-apartheid keep Uga Carlini’s fiction in first gear - Phuong Le
starstarstarstarstarJohn and the Hole review – total-dysfunction movie as kid dumps family in the ground
Spanish artist Pascual Sisto’s fable of a boy holding his family hostage is well made, but it revolves around a tiresome cop-out - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Addams Family 2 review – not ooky, nor kooky, just the smell of a rotting franchise
The sequel is as hopeless as the first feature-length animated Addams Family, an eyeball-achingly bright and manic kids movie - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarDeadly Cuts review – Ortonesque Dublin comedy that’s more silly than funny
With violent gangsters, a gentrification storyline and a hairdressing competition, this movie can’t figure out what it wants to be - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThere’s Someone Inside Your House review – empty Netflix cancel culture slasher
A diverse cast and some impressively gnarly gore isn’t enough to elevate a rote stalk-and-slash teen horror that tries, and fails, to make a statement - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarThe Survivalist review – John Malkovich drops in on bleak vision of a hellish postviral US
Jon Keeyes’ siege drama paints a lawless future for American society, though endless flashbacks drain the tension - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarBad Candy review – Halloween horror anthology could well make you sick
Loosely connected characters from a drug dealer to a morgue attendant converge, in ever ickier circles - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarNext Door review – Daniel Brühl’s tedious vanity project
Ostensibly a dig at gentrification and sensitive celebrities, this Berlin-set drama is contrived and navel-gazing - Simran Hans
starstarstarstarstarVenom: Let There Be Carnage review – middling monster mush
Tom Hardy returns as the conflicted antihero in an admirably light-hearted but utterly disposable sequel - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarZone 414 review – Guy Pearce grimaces through soulless Blade Runner clone
Pearce, chasing after a sinister tech billionaire’s lost daughter, gives undeserved credibility to a feeble sci-fi bereft of real ideas - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarNext Door review – Daniel Brühl’s vanity-free actor project props itself up at the bar
Brühl plays a version of himself as a self-involved actor waylaid by a man who knows a lot about him, but there’s a stagey undertow - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe East review – war is hell … for the bloodthirsty imperialists
Jim Taihuttu’s story of Dutch soldiers in Indonesia is as short-sighted as the old-fashioned colonialists it is trying to criticise - Phuong Le
starstarstarstarstarThe Man Who Sold His Skin review – tattooed refugee story offers up art-world satire
Serious themes are undercut by the flippant tone of this story about a Syrian refugee who becomes a conceptual art object - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Ballad of Billy McCrae review – erotic noir is on rocky ground
This Wales-set tale of sex and intrigue among quarry workers is strangely murky, although the scenery looks lovely - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarTrue Calling review – a government minister goes awol on long night of the soul
A politician’s long night of the soul becomes a confusing debate on the climate crisis in Erik Knudsen’s tiny-budget drama - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarAfter We Fell review – Harry Styles-inspired romance is stupendously wooden
Fans of the YA After series should find something amid the tangled mess of plot, daytime-soap acting and inanimate passion – everyone else should look away - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarGhostbusters: Afterlife review – a slimy, stinking corpse of a sequel
Jason Reitman takes over his father’s franchise and immediately tanks it with a tonally misjudged blend of fan service and bizarrely played-straight spectacle - Charles Bramesco
starstarstarstarstarThe Addams Family 2 review – frightfully awful
The only scary thing about the second animated feature of Hollywood’s eternal ghouls is just how bad it is - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarDiana: The Musical review – a right royal debacle so bad you’ll hyperventilate
This filmed version of the Broadway show, with its accidental comedy and cringeworthy lines, is a guilty-pleasures singalong in waiting - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarSeance review – mean girls meet mean spirits in high-school horror
Simon Barrett directs with lurid video lighting and comically bad gore effects to deliver what looks like a cheap Italian horror film - Leslie Felperin
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