Five star - Latest Top Rated Film Reviews from the Guardian

Monos review – hypnotic thriller about teenage guerrillas
Inspired by the upheaval in his native Colombia, Alejandro Landes’s story of teenage guerrillas descending into anarchy is a hypnotic triumph - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
Hoop Dreams review – basketball doc slam-dunks the power of hope
This heartfelt and affecting film follows two teenagers chasing scholarships that hold out the chance of a brighter future - Peter Bradshaw
Singin' in the Rain review – simply splashing
This sublime 1952 movie musical, in cinemas again, puts the artistry of Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and co on full, joyful display - Peter Bradshaw
The Irishman review – Martin Scorsese's finest film for 30 years
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and – especially – Joe Pesci turn in performances of wintry brilliance in Scorsese’s epically daring late stage mob masterpiece - Peter Bradshaw
Beanpole review – Russians pay a bitter price for survival
Kantemir Balagov brilliantly deploys shock tactics to weigh the horrors of peace against the trauma of war in 1945 Leningrad - Peter Bradshaw
The Cotton Club Encore review – Francis Ford Coppola's reworked masterpiece
Released in 1984 to mixed reviews and box office failure, the musical drama has been expanded in a masterful new presentation - Jordan Hoffman in New York
Doctor Sleep review – The Shining sequel has its own spooky sparkle
Mike Flanagan offers a spirited rendition of Stephen King’s follow-up novel - Simran Hans
The Aeronauts review – airborne adventure weathers the storm
Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones go ballooning in a history-based tale of meteorological derring-do - Simran Hans
Yves Saint Laurent: The Last Collections review – shocking portrait of a fashion legend
This amazingly candid documentary reveals the designer in a terrible decline as he rules his studio like a latter-day Sun King - Peter Bradshaw
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound review – why Top Gun roared
The maestros of film sound reveal the secrets of their challenging job with great frankness and amazing modesty - Peter Bradshaw
Leonardo: The Works review – magnificent tour of the masterpieces
From Florence to London, Krakow to St Petersburg, galleries show off their prized paintings in this impressive, authoritative documentary - Andrew Pulver
Chained for Life review – astute satire on actors and beauty
Under the Skin’s Adam Pearson impresses in a confrontational film industry tale - Simran Hans
The Last Black Man in San Francisco review – moving tale of racial gentrification
A quirky approach gives Joe Talbot’s fact-based drama the feel of a fable - Simran Hans
Chained for Life review – clever comedy-horror toys with reality
Set in a strange and mysterious hospital, this amiably ingenious drama constantly wrong-foots the audience - Leslie Felperin
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon review – an out-of-this-world delight
Aardman send Shaun and co into orbit in another dizzyingly inventive film for everyone - Wendy Ide
What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? review – powerful social documentary
How violence and discrimination affect African American communities in the deep south - Wendy Ide
Mystify: Michael Hutchence review – enlightening and affecting
Footage shot by the INXS frontman and his circle illuminates his life and death - Wendy Ide
The Peanut Butter Falcon review – an emotional ride
Shia LaBeouf and Zack Gottsagen are a dream double act in this unlikely buddy movie - Wendy Ide
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon review – a sheepquel for all ages
Aardman have upped the ante with this dotty Spielbergian sci-fi tale crammed full of sight gags, movie pastiches and charm - Cath Clarke
Official Secrets review – Keira Knightley shines as a very British whistleblower
Knightley gives a sympathetic performance as Iraq war whistleblower Katharine Gun in this shrewd and relevant spy drama - Peter Bradshaw
Corpus Christi review – from parole to the priesthood
This smart plot-twister about an ex-con who takes up the identity of a new priest sidesteps a soppy trajectory to land on a much bleaker, thoughtful note - Leslie Felperin
Lost Lives review – requiem for victims of the Troubles
This powerful, elegiac documentary focuses on a monumental chronicle of 3,700 lives ended by violence in Northern Ireland - Mike McCahill
American Woman review – Sienna Miller excels in slice-of-life drama
A woman’s attempts to rebuild her life and raise her grandson after her daughter vanishes - Simran Hans
Dolemite Is My Name review – Eddie Murphy is richly enjoyable in real-life showbiz drama
Murphy is likable and big-hearted in this story of cult 70s blaxploitation star Rudy Ray Moore’s rise from nightclub standup to the movies - Peter Bradshaw
El Camino review – Breaking Bad movie finally gives fans closure
Picking up right where the hit drama left off, Netflix’s follow-up film shows Jesse Pinkman’s next move ... though it’s not the thriller you may have hoped for - Paul MacInnes
Joker review – an ace turn from Joaquin Phoenix
A mesmerising lead performance gives Todd Phillips’s divisive reimagining of the comic villain raw power - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
Good Posture review – spiky comedy from Dolly Wells
Grace Van Patten excels as a feckless young woman forced to face reality - Wendy Ide
Harry Birrell Presents Films of Love and War review – single life
A delightful personal history of the 20th century - Wendy Ide
Judy review – Zellweger and Garland coexist symbiotically
Renée Zellweger is phenomenally good in this captivating account of Judy Garland’s final London concert run - Wendy Ide
Rose Plays Julie review – eerie, edge-of-your-seat suspense
This uncanny and transgressive film about a young woman who tracks down her birth parents is Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s best work yet - Peter Bradshaw
Citizen K review – strange tale of the oligarch who became Putin's nemesis
Alex Gibney’s absorbing new documentary about Mikhail Khodorkovsky charts the Russian businessman’s transformation from plutocrat to political dissident - Peter Bradshaw
The Personal History of David Copperfield review – Iannucci relishes the absurdity
The London film festival opened with Armando Iannucci’s larger-than-life adaptation of the Dickens crowdpleaser, starring Dev Patel as Copperfield - Peter Bradshaw
Sorry We Missed You review – a gruelling stint in the gig economy
A delivery driver is ground down by the system in Ken Loach’s bleak melodrama - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
Brittany Runs a Marathon review – on the funny road to fitness
Jillian Bell is delightful as a woman who takes up running in a sweet, amusing film that also turns a few dark corners - Cath Clarke
Holiday in the Wild – festive Netflix rom-com is stupid but charming
Kristin Davis and Rob Lowe fall in love while taking care of elephants in Zambia in a colossally silly yet oddly likable festive time-filler - Stuart Heritage
Earthquake Bird review – psych-noir with aftershocks
Wash Westmoreland’s crime-mystery about a love triangle turned obsessive, starring Alicia Vikander, delivers a few real tremors - Peter Bradshaw
Tales from the Lodge review – schlocky country cabin scares
A group of grieving friends gather at a remote lakeside and start telling spooky stories in this effective comedy-horror - Leslie Felperin
Campo review – salute to a beekeeping band of brothers
This elegant documentary about a bucolic Portuguese military base offers surprising glimpses of the soldiers’ off-duty pursuits - Peter Bradshaw
The Beach Bum – Harmony Korine stoner comedy
Matthew McConaughey is watchable but his lowbrow antics are an acquired taste - Simran Hans
By the Grace of God review – thoughtful abuse drama
An unvarnished account of three men preyed upon by a Catholic priest in Lyon - Simran Hans
Black and Blue review – cop thriller mixes cliches with righteous anger
Naomie Harris is a cop fighting corruption in a by-the-numbers action film that comes to life when it aims to do more than simply thrill - Benjamin Lee
Western Stars review – Springsteen's nuggets of cowboy wisdom
In a barn with his wife, an orchestra and a new set of cowboy-inflected songs, the Boss reflects magnetically on past demons and meditates on age - Cath Clarke
By the Grace of God review – Ozon's incendiary Catholic Church child-abuse drama
François Ozon’s painful, sombre story of an ongoing child sexual abuse scandal in France is strongest when it foregrounds the victims’ themselves - Peter Bradshaw
A Good Woman Is Hard to Find review – gritty Northern Ireland crime thriller
Vivid performances power the story of a single mother faced with terrifying choices when a drug dealer invades her home - Phil Hoad
Official Secrets review – Keira Knightley excels in Iraq war whistleblower drama
Knightley stars as the GCHQ translator who leaked a classified memo to the Observer exposing the US plot to spy on the UN in 2003 - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
Non-Fiction review – intriguing publishing drama
Olivier Assayas draws the viewer in with flawed but fascinating characters - Wendy Ide
Looking for Alaska review – is this Dawson's Creek throwback too wholesome for Gen Z?
This adaptation of John Green’s young-adult hit is funny and endearing, but its pre-smartphone setting and manic pixie plot feel strangely out of sync with today’s teen hits - Rebecca Nicholson
The Peanut Butter Falcon review – Shia LaBeouf brings soul to odd-couple adventure
A child in care finds himself on the run with a criminal, with Dakota Johnson’s nurse on their trail, in an innocently charming adventure story - Peter Bradshaw
Living With Yourself review – are two Paul Rudds better than one?
Rudd is doubly charming in this cloning comedy-drama on Netflix, which riffs on identity, self-sabotage and the lives we wish we were leading - Lucy Mangan
Ladyworld review – teen sleepover descends into apocalyptic delirium
A gang of girls sheltering from an earthquake turn on each other in Amanda Kramer’s boldly stylish feminist thriller - Phil Hoad
Tell Me Who I Am review – amnesia documentary is like a psychological thriller
An amnesiac man and his twin brother come to terms with their troubled childhood in this involving but upsetting film - Cath Clarke
Darkness Visible review – mystery and murder on the streets of Kolkata
A son hunts for his mother after her unexplained return to her home town in this intriguingly inventive horror story - Leslie Felperin
What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? review – African American life in the south
Robert Minervini brings together four stories about black life in this subtle but strikingly elegiac documentary - Phil Hoad
Home review – gutsy doc charts harrowing, heroic journey by sea
Like Cheryl Strayed in Wild, Sarah Outen bravely explores mental health issues and grief as she chronicles her four-year round-the-world adventure - Cath Clarke
Gauguin at the National Gallery review – portrait of a troubling talent
This efficient documentary doesn’t shy away from the problems this post-impressionist star poses for art lovers today - Andrew Pulver
The Day Shall Come review – Chris Morris’s overcooked FBI farce
The Feds set up a deluded preacher as kingpin of a fake terror plot - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
Abominable review – sweet animated yeti adventure
DreamWorks ploughs a comfortable furrow with this engaging China-set fantasy - Simran Hans
Suzi Q review – clear-eyed profile of the hard-rocking musical pioneer
Female musicians from Debbie Harry to Joan Jett pay homage to Detroit-born bassist Suzi Quatro - Leslie Felperin
The Day Shall Come review – Desperate Feds take on cult in sly Chris Morris satire
Nine years after his incendiary Four Lions, Morris returns with a movie about a tiny urban community and crooked FBI agents - Peter Bradshaw
Fractured review – twisty Netflix thriller is derivative but diverting
Sam Worthington searches for his family in a familiarly plotted yet mostly effective mystery from The Machinist director Brad Anderson - Benjamin Lee
Fanny Lye Deliver'd review – Maxine Peake has a folk-horror awakening
A pair of druggy, licentious agitators invade a 17th-century Shropshire homestead in this eerie period melodrama from Brit indie director Thomas Clay - Peter Bradshaw
The Creatress review – pretzel-shaped black comedy
Lindy Booth is a literary novelist in this baffling, post-postmodern bookworld tale of sex and rivalry - Leslie Felperin
Farming review – gritty tale of Nigeria's farmed-out kids
Inspired by his own experiences, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s drama about black children adopted by white UK families is gruelling but intensely heartfelt - Peter Bradshaw
American Woman review – Sienna Miller stands up in sensitive but soapy emo drama
Miller is utterly believable as a working-class woman whose daughter disappears, alongside strong support from Christina Hendricks and Aaron Paul - Cath Clarke
Tehran: City of Love review – the rocky road to romance in Iran
Ali Jabernansari’s engagingly downbeat comedy-drama offers intriguing insights into life into modern Iranian life - Cath Clarke
The Sultan and the Saint review – the Crusades' real-life bromance
In an unlikely battleground meeting, Francis of Assisi talked war and peace with Ayyubid, sultan Al-Kamil, according to this intriguing documentary - Phil Hoad
The Dead Center review – chilling times in the morgue
An apparently dead man mysteriously comes back to life in this tantalising, atmospheric thriller - Mike McCahill
A Bump Along the Way review – charming late-pregnancy comedy
Bronagh Gallagher is terrific as the fortysomething mother of a teenager who unexpectedly finds she’s expecting again - Peter Bradshaw
The Man in the White Suit review – Stephen Mangan reinvents Ealing boffin
With fart jokes and skiffle songs, this Sean Foley adaptation ditches the innocence of the 1950s capitalist comedy, but has plenty of drive - Michael Billington
The Climbers review – stirring tribute to China's mountaineering hero
Bombastic and unsubtle this paean to Fang Wuzhou may be, but its vertiginous set-pieces put many US blockbusters to shame - Mike McCahill
The Captain review – airline disaster nail-biter plays by the rules
This fictionalisation of what happened when a plane’s windscreen shattered 32,000ft over Tibet ramps up the suspense in enjoyably predictable ways - Leslie Felperin
Solidarity review – sparky study of industry's nasty secret
Lucy Parker’s revealing documentary shines a light on the surveillance that blacklisted supposed troublemakers - Peter Bradshaw
Doctor Sleep review – sedate Shining sequel battles a new evil … boredom
Ewan McGregor as grownup Danny Torrance fights his own demons and others in this meandering follow-up to The Shining - Peter Bradshaw
Terminator: Dark Fate review – Arnie’s back, as backup
With flying debris and strong female leads, the franchise’s opportunistic sixth film gets the job done - Simran Hans
The Addams Family review – ooky animation can't find a heartbeat
The latest incarnation of the mysterious and spooky household, from the directors of Sausage Party, is not creepy and not kooky – it’s bland - Cath Clarke
Saand Ki Aankh review – women take aim at Indian convention
The true story of ageing champion sharpshooters is told with warmth, though relies heavily on quickfire montage to hit its targets - Mike McCahill
The Pilgrim’s Progress review – tiring trudge to the Celestial City
This animated adaptation of Bunyan’s 17th-century religious allegory features some scary demons but the rest is pretty tame - Cath Clarke
Connect review – a GP waiting-room pamphlet brought to life
Marilyn Edmond’s film is a well-meaning but unconvincing dramatisation of the problems of loneliness and suicide among men under 45 in the UK - Leslie Felperin
Terminator: Dark Fate review – Arnie's back, and it's never going to stop
James Cameron co-produces the latest in the humans v machines odyssey – featuring a fierce Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger as a cyborg Grandpa Walton - Peter Bradshaw
The Laundromat review – Steven Soderbergh gets caught in a spin
The Panama Papers story arrives on the big screen as a star-studded romp full of smarm and short of focus - Peter Bradshaw
Eli review – schlocky Netflix horror devolves into supernatural silliness
A boy questions the veracity of some nasty experimental treatment in a promisingly twisty tale that ultimately crashes and burns - Benjamin Lee
Zombieland: Double Tap review – a fan service sequel for fans who barely exist
A belated sequel to the 2009 sleeper hit brings back the main cast but can’t quite conjure up enough humour or charm to justify its existence - Benjamin Lee
Non-Fiction review – tale of literary passions loses the plot
Olivier Assayas’s drama, set in the world of publishing, strains in vain to make zeitgeisty points about the future of books - Peter Bradshaw
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil review – panto fun is missing in action
Angelina Jolie, Michelle Pfeiffer and Elle Fanning do their best to justify a second revisionist fairytale, but CGI battles replace narrative clarity - Peter Bradshaw
The King review – Timothée Chalamet is all at sea as Prince Hal
This historical tale lacks Shakespeare’s psychological depth – and what have they done to Falstaff? - Simran Hans
Farming review – disturbing but unreflective racial drama
The tale of a Nigerian boy growing up in Essex revels in its tragedy - Simran Hans
Abominable review – escaped baby yeti gears up for Everest
A supernaturally powered critter is on the loose in this feeble animation, featuring an Eddie Izzard-voiced villain - Peter Bradshaw
The King review – Shakespeare reboot is Game-of-Thrones lite with touch of Python
Much of the poetry and emotion has gone from this decaff version of the Henry plays, letting down Timothée Chalamet’s decent lead performance - Peter Bradshaw
The Sky Is Pink review – weepy biopic of dying Indian teenager
This true story of a sparky Aisha Chaudhary, voiced in perky style from beyond the grave, is way too saccharine - Cath Clarke
Werewolf review – choppy, shlocky Polish drama
Pairing concentration camp history and horror stylings leads to a struggle with tone Adrian Panek’s film can’t surmount - Wendy Ide
Gemini Man review – Will Smith v Will Smith leaves audience in a coma
The digital de-ageing gimmick adds little sprightliness to Ang Lee’s humourless thriller about a government agent on the run - Peter Bradshaw
In the Tall Grass review: Stephen King Netflix horror gets lost in the weeds
An adaptation of a novella co-written by the author’s son Joe Hill starts out with promise but soon descends into repetitive and nonsensical theatrics - Benjamin Lee
Elvis Unleashed review – superfluous swagger from the comeback King
Presley’s return from seven years of acting in ropey movies to give these preening performances makes him seem petulant and outdated - Cath Clarke
Joker review – the most disappointing film of the year
Todd Phillips’ solemn but shallow supervillain origins movie has a strong performance by Joaquin Phoenix but is weighed down by realist detail and tedious material - Peter Bradshaw
The Birdcatcher review – ropey rural wartime thriller
Disguising herself as a boy, a Jewish girl escapes the Nazis by getting a job on a Norwegian farm in this hammy Euro-drama - Peter Bradshaw
After the Wedding review – basically, it's Eat Pray Love 2
An insufferable, implausible and treacly romantic-drama, with Michelle Williams running an orphanage in India and Julianne Moore as her benefactor - Peter Bradshaw
The Beach Bum review – Harmony Korine reaches a Zen state of unfunny
Matthew McConaughey is insufferable as a stoner poet in Korine’s awful non-comedy, which also features Isla Fisher, Snoop Dogg, Jonah Hill and Zac Efron - Peter Bradshaw
Rattlesnake review – disposable supernatural Netflix thriller lacks bite
Carmen Ejogo is a mother forced to make a horrifying sacrifice in a staggeringly dull film bereft of suspense, creativity and purpose - Benjamin Lee
Countdown review – hapless haunted app horror should be uninstalled
Final Destination gets an unofficial smartphone reboot in a lazy and entirely unscary slab of schlock focused on an app that predicts your time of death - Benjamin Lee
Gemini Man review – Will Smith out-performs his younger self
All the digital de-ageing technology in the world can’t make this silly sci-fi thriller about a cloned hitman convincing - Simran Hans