Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger review – Scorsese’s guide to cinema greats
Martin Scorsese, who helped rescue the British film-makers’ work from obscurity, is the perfect person to discuss their unique and now beloved work - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarMy Favourite Cake review – charming portrayal of a 70-year-old Iranian’s appetite for romance
Heroine Mahin (Lily Farhadpour) is fiercely determined to revitalise her mundane existence and taste a better life - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarInterview With the Vampire review – Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt’s brilliant bloodsucking bromance
Neil Jordan’s horror-comedy features Cruise in scene-chewing form in a film that outrageously explores the vampire’s actually rather complex lived experience - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarRepentance review – dreamlike satire from Soviet Georgia brings life to Stalinist ghosts
1980s black comedy unravels the brutal legacy of a despot who is as ludicrous as his crimes are appalling - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Zone of Interest review – Jonathan Glazer’s unforgettable Auschwitz drama is a brutal masterpiece
Only the constant pall of smoke, and a dread-inducing soundscape, tell of the horrors beyond the wall as the idyllic life of the commandant of the death camp and his family rolls by in Glazer’s Oscar-nominated film - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarDays of Heaven review – Malick’s early masterwork heralds a rarefied visionary
The director’s rereleased 1978 film revealed some of the authorial signatures that would underscore a film-making career punctuated by a two-decade disappearance - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarDriving Mum review – happy-sad Icelandic road movie hits the spot
This quirky story of a lonely farmer and his deceased mother celebrates the Nordic country’s breathtaking landscape - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarTheatre of Violence review – questions of culpability as Lord’s Resistance Army killer comes to trial
This harrowing documentary tells the story of Dominic Ongwen, conscripted into a brutal rebel army in Uganda and now indicted at the international criminal court for war crimes - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarShoshana review – Michael Winterbottom’s compelling romantic thriller set in 30s Palestine
This partly factual drama about the bright young things of British Mandate Tel Aviv offers insights into the politics of the time - Ellen E Jones
starstarstarstarstarMemory review – Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard shine in delicate, trauma-fuelled anti-romcom
A social worker in recovery and a widower with dementia grapple with the past in Mexican director Michel Franco’s affecting drama - Ellen E Jones
starstarstarstarstarPerfect Days review – Wim Wenders’s zen Japanese drama is his best feature film in years
The German director makes a strong case for simple living with this achingly lovely tale starring Kōji Yakusho as a Tokyo public toilet cleaner who finds quiet joy in the world around him - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarWicked Little Letters review – a deliciously sweary poison-pen mystery
The true tale of a foul-mouthed scribbler in 1920s Sussex is given nuance by a stellar cast including Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan and Timothy Spall - Ellen E Jones
starstarstarstarstarDahomey review – interrogative reverie about looted African sculptures
Mati Diop’s documentary is told partly in the ‘voice’ of one of the looted treasures, in a realist jeu d’esprit about the legacy of plunder - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarMemory review – survivors grapple with an unstable past in a delicate, painful duet
Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard excel in Michel Franco’s absorbing story about the unnerving reunion of a care worker and a friend from her past - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarDrive-Away Dolls review – Ethan Coen sets off in a wild new direction
The writer-director splits from his brother and joins wife Tricia Cooke for a bawdy and brilliant road trip caper about two lesbian friends caught up in crime - Charles Bramesco
starstarstarstarstarDune: Part Two review – second half of hallucinatory sci-fi epic is staggering spectacle
Denis Villeneuve’s monumental adaptation expands its extraordinary world of shimmering strangeness. It’s impossible to imagine anyone doing it better - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarA Kid for Two Farthings review – Carol Reed’s East End market-street caper still charms
An array of stars portray warm-hearted Londoners in comedy pivoting around a young boy who is a sunny ancestor to Kes - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarMonolith review – impressive first contact sci-fi seeks the truth out there
Matt Vesely’s debut references 2001: A Space Odyssey and Arrival, but ably stakes its own territory as a compelling and fastidious piece of work - Phil Hoad
starstarstarstarstarZineb Sedira: Dreams Have No Titles review – magic moments in the bar that can take you anywhere
The French Algerian artist keeps us suspended between the real and the fictive, past and present, as we go on a romp through cinematic classics - Adrian Searle
starstarstarstarstarSasquatch Sunset review – Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg suit up for ingenious Bigfoot comedy
Four mythical hairy creatures, communicating in grunts, inhabit what could be a post-apocalyptic world in the Zellner brothers’ witty and unnerving film - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarSterben (Dying) review – the biggest conductor meltdown since Cate Blanchett’s Tár
Lars Eidinger plays the man embarking on a major orchestral project, but whose professional status is threatened by family turmoil behind the scenes - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Promised Land review – Mads Mikkelsen stars in enjoyably gritty Nordic western
The bleak terrain of Jutland is the setting for an 18th-century battle over crops and land in Nikolaj Arcel’s rollicking true-life drama - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarThe Taste of Things review –Juliette Binoche stars in deliciously subversive tale of later life love
Binoche and Benoît Magimel play a 19th-century French cook and her gourmand employer in Tran Anh Hung’s gorgeous, simmering drama - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarSmall Things Like These review – Cillian Murphy’s piercingly painful Magdalene Laundries drama
Murphy plays a man who witnesses Ireland’s church’s abusive workhouses for unwed mothers in an absorbing Dickensian story based on recent history - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarGetting It Back: The Story of Cymande review – the second life of a cruelly ignored UK funk band
They toured the US and headlined Harlem’s Apollo while no UK TV show would air them – but their legacy was rescued by hip-hop - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarSomeone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son review – stories of homelesness from a survivor
Director Lorna Tucker brings her own experience to this documentary and works an empathy miracle in her interviews with people on the street - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarViktoria review – fierce, urgent intergenerational story from communist-bloc Bulgaria
A young woman plots her escape from behind the Iron Curtain until a baby ruins her plans in this 2014 debut from Maya Vitkova - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarShreya Ghoshal review – masterful Indian singer has a voice like billowing silk
The Bollywood legend says she wants to manifest a homely feeling, and – despite a 12,000-strong crowd – she does so with quips, warmth and a richly varied setlist - Tara Joshi
starstarstarstarstarThe Settlers review – Leone-inspired western packs a venomous bite
A landowner in Tierra del Fuego sets three men to clear a ‘safe route’ through native lands in this menacing shakedown of colonialism and its revisionists - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarYour Fat Friend review – big-hearted portrait of author, podcaster and activist Aubrey Gordon
Documentary-maker Jeanie Finlay brings compassion, empathy and a light touch to her funny and frank subject - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarThe Iron Claw review – crowd-pleasing wrestling saga grapples with toxic masculinity
A career-best turn from Zac Efron, plus a tide of true-life triumph and tragedy, power director Sean Durkin’s bone-crunching drama - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarThe Iron Claw review – bulked-up Zac Efron amazing sight in tragic wrestling drama
Efron, Jeremy Allen White and Harris Dickinson play the Von Erich brothers, the wrestling superstars who were battered by trauma, in and out of the ring - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Settlers review – ultra-violent study of Chile’s butchery of its indigenous people
Europe’s early 20th-century exploitation of Tierra del Fuego is told in an unsparingly bloody drama-thriller by first-time director Felipe Gálvez Haberle - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarAmerican Fiction review – satisfyingly prickly satire on race and hypocrisy in the literary world
Jeffrey Wright excels as a struggling Black novelist who dashes off a blaxploitation potboiler and hits the jackpot in Cord Jefferson’s Oscar-nominated comedy drama - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarOf Two Minds review – a curiously satisfying psychological mystery
Fusing real movie footage and interactive free-association components, this is a compelling and at times enlightening experience - Simon Parkin
starstarstarstarstarLaapataa Ladies review – Shakespearean carry-on in Indian arranged-marriage comedy
If you can get with the larky premise, Kiran Rao’s tale of mixed-up newlyweds makes for a gently probing comedy of manners - Catherine Bray
starstarstarstarstarDefoe review – disarmingly honest portrait of a star footballer
The West Ham and Tottenham striker considers a rags-to-riches career that began as a schoolkid, and the scandals that followed, with unusual openness - Andrew Pulver
starstarstarstarstarTropic review – morally ambiguous sci-fi predicts the departure of the fittest
Director Édouard Salier tells the story of twin brothers training to become stellar explorers. But whether we should accept that space is reserved for humanity’s best remains unclear - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarProblemista review – Tilda Swinton lifts uneven debut on visa purgatory
Julio Torres’s whimsical comedy shows promise in its portrayal of the Kafka-esque maze of the US immigration system, but his ideas don’t always come together - Adrian Horton
starstarstarstarstarBoylesque review – tender portrait of drag artist who refuses to grow old gracefully
Bogna Kowalczyk’s lively and moving film follows 82-year-old Lulla La Polaca who embraces the future and its uncertainties with irresistible joie de vivre - Phuong Le
starstarstarstarstarOut of Darkness review – immersive stone age horror
Subtitled prehistoric dialogue and gripping night-time action work a treat in Andrew Cumming’s inventive feature debut - Ellen E Jones
starstarstarstarstarDor (Longing) review – Romanian sheep-herders discuss the meaning of life
Jannes Callens melds the slow passage of time with the enduring ache of a man adrift - Phuong Le
starstarstarstarstarShoshana review – a quiet love story entangled in deadly Middle East politics
Michael Winterbottom’s drama centres on the romance between a British police officer and a socialist Zionist writer but puts history-telling over emotion - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarAmerican Star review – Ian McShane is a killer with time on his hands in the Canaries
The feline octogenarian brings brooding star power and presence to Fuerteventura-set thriller - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarA Wolfpack Called Ernesto review – disturbing tales of children groomed by Mexico drug gangs
Men and women involved in narcotrafficking explain how they were recruited in this compelling documentary - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarOut of Darkness review – stone age survival thriller finds horror in the Highlands
Six settlers arrive in a Scottish forest 45,000 years ago, where ‘bloodthirsty things’ await but bathos fails to arrive - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarThe Moon Thieves review – absurd boyband heist movie is fiendishly watchable
Three members of Hong Kong Cantopop band Mirror feature in this fiendishly watchable crime caper which steals much from Ocean’s Eleven and, oddly, ASMR videos - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarCold Meat review – two-handed survival thriller goes deep into the icebound Rockies
A man is stuck in a car in the freezing Colorado mountains with no mobile signal – and violent intent brewing - Phil Hoad
starstarstarstarstarSomeone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son review – homelessness documentary should be required viewing for all politicians
Director Lorna Tucker tells the human stories behind the UK’s rough sleeping crisis, informed by her own experience of living on the streets - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarEureka review – Lisandro Alonso’s meditation on Indigenous life is striking but slow
The latest from the Argentine auteur, with a star turn from Viggo Mortensen, is formally daring but often deathly dull - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarHors du Temps (Suspended Time) review – lockdown memoir revives childhood bliss
Olivier Assayas’ thinly disguised autobiographical study of a film-maker’s Edenic experience during Covid isolation is a civilised pleasure - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarA Different Man review – Adam Pearson shines in oddball Doppelganger parable
The Under the Skin actor is a standout in a story starring Sebastian Stan as a man whose appearance is transformed by surgery - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarPrism review – three-part film essay turns the camera on race, colour and imperialism
Three film-makers, An van Dienderen, Rosine Mbakam and Eléonore Yaméogo, examine how the lens cannot be neutral in issues of marginalisation - Phuong Le
starstarstarstarstarLast Swim review – a London school leaver’s complicated A-level results day
Deba Hekmat is impressively subtle as a British-Iranian teen whose celebrations come unstuck - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarOne From the Heart review – ambitious Coppola romance with charm and goofy innocence
In a stylised, almost dreamlike Vegas, a jaded couple’s escapist infidelities can’t deny their essential love’s gravitational pull in this tender throwback to a golden age romantic drama - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Promised Land review – Mads Mikkelsen is a Euro Gary Cooper in Nordic western
Inspired by a true story about a retired 18th-century army captain turned farmer, Nikolaj Arcel’s brash drama is entertaining, if a little preposterous - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarPlayers review – Netflix’s Valentine’s romcom is a genre upgrade
Gina Rodriguez brings the charm as a sports fanatic dating in Brooklyn in an improvement on streaming romcom fare - Adrian Horton
starstarstarstarstarHead Count review – Burghart brothers’ tricksy crime drama has certain flair
With tough guys pointing his own gun pointed at his head, Aaron Jakubenko’s arithmetically minded Kat counts back how many times it has gone off to work out if there are any bullets left - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarOccupied City review – a mantra-like meditation on Nazi-occupied Amsterdam
Steve McQueen’s four-hour-plus documentary, with commentary of life in the Dutch city during the second world war set to images from the present, feels more like a gallery installation - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarUpgraded review – Camila Mendes rises above uneven romcom
The Riverdale alum finally graduates out of high school roles, aged 29, with a frothy Valentine’s offering that adds a meet-cute to a Devil Wears Prada tale - Adrian Horton
starstarstarstarstarFungi: Web of Life review – Björk and Merlin Sheldrake guide trippy mushroom doc
Beginner’s guide to the wrap-your-brain-around-them facts of mycological science boosts the wonder with 3D time-lapse photography - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarGassed Up review – phone-jack gang gets in over their heads in high-energy thriller
This London crime drama steers clear of the usual cliches thanks to a strong cast and some dynamic direction from George Amponsah - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarSuncoast review – Laura Linney helps lift adequate family saga
The Oscar nominee does her brittle shtick well enough as a mother caring for her dying son in a so-so comedy drama - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarForce of Nature: The Dry 2 review – Eric Bana returns as Aaron Falk in solid thriller
Based on Jane Harper’s bestseller, this twisty mystery follows Falk as he investigates a dodgy CEO (Richard Roxburgh) and his missing employee (Anna Torv) - Luke Buckmaster
starstarstarstarstarYour Fat Friend review – fat activist Aubrey Gordon takes on the cruelty of Big Diet
A frank but endearing documentary makes for a convincing indictment of the corporate machine that says big is bad - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarPing Pong review – cheerful, far-fetched caper that dives into London’s 1980s Chinatown
This mystery comedy from 1986 stars Lucy Sheen, and has some pointed comments on the racism Chinese communities faced in the UK - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Seeding review – redneck-biblical horror-thriller offers perverse Edenic refuge
Scott Haze shines as a man who takes shelter with a mysterious woman in a tin shack at the bottom of a canyon - Phil Hoad
starstarstarstarstarWhich Brings Me to You review – mostly charming romcom is worth puckering up for
Lucy Hale and Nat Wolff are relatable and startlingly easy on the eye in this likable tale that’s carrying slightly too much plot luggage - Catherine Bray
starstarstarstarstarTable for Six 2 review – second round of hit couples comedy heads for the wedding party
Much anticipated sequel to the successful 2022 Hong Kong film doesn’t make the best use of its gifted ensemble - Phuong Le
starstarstarstarstarDogwatch review – seagoing mercenaries take on pirates in homoerotic meditation
Gregoris Rentis’s documentary tells the stories of three private guards waiting for an attack that never comes, but the socio-political reasons for their existence is never fully explored - Phuong Le
starstarstarstarstarMarmalade review – poppy spin on classic noir thriller is full of fizzy chemistry
Actor turned director Keir O’Donnell’s first feature behind the camera is a primary coloured effort with some smart plot twists - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarDalton’s Dream review – sensitive documentary about a vulnerable X Factor winner
The young Jamaican singer’s 2018 victory is not all it seems in this thoughtful study of a troubled life in the mass entertainment spotlight - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarMigration review – perky animation scripted by White Lotus creator Mike White
This harmless, run of the millpond tale of a mallard family on the move takes wing thanks to White’s sharp writing - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarMigration review – zany ducks-in-the-city adventure from White Lotus’ Mike White
Co-scripted by White (a vegan), and superbly voiced by the likes of Awkwafina and David Mitchell, this family comedy about migrating ducks is a fun ride with clipped wings - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarA Wolfpack Called Ernesto review – disembodied stories from Mexico’s drug gangs frontline
Young gang members tell their chilling, occasionally poetic stories in Everardo González’s documentary. But without seeing their faces, it’s hard to engage emotionally - Ellen E Jones
starstarstarstarstarMea Culpa review – Tyler Perry’s schlocky Netflix thriller descends into silliness
Kelly Rowland and Trevante Rhodes do some heavy lifting in an often hilariously messy attempt to recall classics like Jagged Edge and Basic Instinct - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarWicked Little Letters review – a depressing, obvious, clunky waste of a stellar cast
Any wider comment on the strange, sad nature of the scandal this film is based on is sidestepped in favour of broad laughs and superficiality - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarSpaceman review – Adam Sandler consoled by unscary giant spider in deep space
Adaptation of Czech absurdist novel finds Sandler on a trippy cosmic mission while his marriage breaks down on Earth - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarDouble Feature review – Hitchcock and Hedren meet the Witchfinder General
John Logan’s play combines the stories behind two films made in the 1960s but each needs more space to truly hit home - Arifa Akbar
starstarstarstarstarDisconnect Me review – man attempts digital cold turkey in personal-challenge journey
With a subject as complex as monitoring the effects of smartphone use, Alex Lykos’s film could have paid more attention to sourcing and methodology - Catherine Bray
starstarstarstarstarHistory of Evil review – spooky-house horror set in future-fascist America
When fugitives from a tyrannical future US take cover in a mysterious building, you might expect more thrills than are on offer here - Catherine Bray
starstarstarstarstarGetting It Back: The Story of Cymande review – the 70s London funk band rediscovered
This Buena Vista-style documentary about a band who found a new life via the dancefloor is overlong but worth it for the music - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarBob Marley: One Love review – the reggae superstar deserves a better film than this
British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir as Marley and the magnetic Lashana Lynch as Marley’s wife, Rita, are let down by this deferential biopic’s undercooked screenplay - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarThe Letter Writer review – Cyrano-style love story set in 1960s British-occupied Dubai
Despite a shining performance by Eslam Al Kawarit, this love story is hampered by wooden dialogue and iffy acting - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarThis Is Me … Now: A Love Story review – JLo’s bombastic ode to love and herself
Star’s self-funded big swing is a mix of over-produced music videos and self-help advice but showcases her undeniable screen magnetism - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarDeliver Us review – delirious baby antichrist horror smothered in surreal visions
A nun pregnant with a devil twin! A murderous one-eyed priest! This film had all the right elements, but the plot just drags on - Catherine Bray
starstarstarstarstarFinding Her Beat review – women-only taiko drumming troupe takes on the US
The challenges of bringing the Japanese drum style to an American audience are laboriously told, but the performance scenes are thrilling - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarFortunes of War review – up-and-at-em spirit in tale of Brits on the run from the Wehrmacht
A bit of directorial zest, a serviceable lead and some Dirty Dozen energy are the only weapons in the arsenal of this otherwise plotless movie - Phil Hoad
starstarstarstarstarTell Me About It review – British Asian Gen Z drama bounces between crime and kitchen sink
Two young women on a jaunt find themselves embroiled with drug gangsters in director Suman Hanif’s uneven feature - Catherine Bray
starstarstarstarstarGassed Up review – generic moped crime drama goes nowhere fast
British director George Amponsah delivers action mayhem and a telegraphed plot in this ill-timed tale of thieves on two wheels - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarThe Jungle Bunch World Tour review – a deranged beaver wreaks havoc in basic animated sequel
This follow-up to the 2017 French children’s film is notable only for the self-defeating mission of its baddie – and some age inappropriate subplots - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarLisa Frankenstein review – Diablo Cody’s throwback comedy-horror is monster mush
The Oscar-winning screenwriter aims to recall 80s classics from Heathers to Beetlejuice but there are too many parts missing - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarBob Marley: One Love review – reverential biopic of reggae superstar struggles to stir it up
With Marley’s family on board, this officially-approved life story serves up the hits but skirts some big questions - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarSlotherhouse review – sorority-house slasher brings homicidal sloth to mean girls
A killing machine sloth named Alpha gets her claws out on a group of sorority sisters in this silly – and sadly unfunny – comedy-horror - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarThe Jungle Bunch: World Tour review – second time around for kooky animal toon
Frenetic adventures of tiger-striped penguin and chums resume in sequel that might appeal to the under-fives - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarDagr review – perma-snarking YouTubers cancel the fear in paganistic slasher
Matthew Butler-Hart’s film lurches from social-media comedy to shaky-cam bloodletting, but never comes near the primeval emotions of the Blair Witch Project it so often references - Phil Hoad
starstarstarstarstarArgylle review – a colossal, cumbersome dud from director Matthew Vaughn
A spy novelist is targeted by a real-life crime syndicate in the Kingsman director’s incoherent, generic thriller - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarBronco Billy: The Musical review – Clint Eastwood inspires misfiring caper
Hunter Bird’s often madcap production, based on the 1980 western, has anodyne songs and lacks the film’s weathered perspective - Chris Wiegand
starstarstarstarstarMadame Web review – Marvel’s junky spin-off is a tangled mess
Dakota Johnson lazily leads an incompetent attempt to set up a new character, made almost incoherent by last-minute changes - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarArgylle review – unbearably self-satisfied smirk of a spy caper from Matthew Vaughn
What could have been a fun movie is instead self-admiring with a dull meta-narrative, phoned-in cameos and an awful lead performance - Peter Bradshaw
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