Monkey Man review – Dev Patel goes wild in ultraviolent Mumbai revenge flick
Patel exacts wildly OTT vengeance in the neon-lit city in this stylish and exciting action thriller, which doubles as a boisterous satire of Modi-esque nationalism - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarIo Capitano review – chilling indictment of the refugee exploitation economy
Two teenage boys star in Matteo Garrone’s passionate exposé of how greed, trauma and corruption drive the modern-day slave trade in would-be migrants - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarDisco Boy review – Franz Rogowski adds another dimension to intense French Foreign Legion drama
The German actor’s expressive performance anchors Giacomo Abbruzzese’s bold, continent-crossing feature debut - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarThe Origin of Evil review – Laure Calamy shines in enjoyably pulpy, Highsmith-esque thriller
Arriving on a jetset Mediterranean island to meet the wealthy father she has never known, Calamy’s factory worker enters a vipers’ nest of hostility in Sébastian Marnier’s devious French psychodrama - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarRyuichi Sakamoto: Opus review – a stark, emotional finale from master musician
In his last weeks of life, the Oscar-winning composer is filmed at the piano by his son. It is an almost wordless paean to a remarkable career - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarOpening Night review – Sheridan Smith’s boozy meltdown shakes up musical theatre
Smith plays a Broadway star in the midst of a mental crisis in Ivo van Hove and Rufus Wainwright’s glittering and extravagantly original musical adaptation of the Cassavetes film - Arifa Akbar
starstarstarstarstarSTEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces review – intimate portrait of a comedy legend
From his childhood job in Disneyland and huge standup success to movie stardom and later life career as a dry humorist this is a fascinating insight into a wild and crazy career - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarCelluloid Underground review – love letter to a lifelong passion for film and illicit treasure trove
Iranian critic Ehsan Khoshbakht’s personal essay about a man’s smizdat film print collection shows the lengths cinephiles will go to to protect the art form - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarBaltimore review – Imogen Poots excels as British aristocrat turned IRA volunteer Rose Dugdale
Irish directors Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy’s biopic of the late rebel heiress is anchored by an expressive lead turn - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarThe Delinquents review – gripping Buenos Aires heist thriller
Two bank staff rob the vaults and head for the Argentinian countryside in Rodrigo Moreno’s thoughtful though overlong crime flick - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarLate Night With the Devil review – diabolically funny found-footage horror
Australian brothers Cameron and Colin Cairnes deliver satire and shocks in this gleeful sendup of 70s network talkshows - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarAfter Hours review – Martin Scorsese’s 1980s shaggy-dog story is a peculiar, potent film
Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette’s night of farce and coincidence is a tale in which strangeness and anxiety loom large, leading to a woozy punchline - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarImmaculate review – Sydney Sweeney plays scream queen in gory nun horror
The Euphoria breakout goes all-in with a fun, nasty slab of nunsploitation that also acts as commentary on female bodily autonomy - Radheyan Simonpillai
starstarstarstarstarBaltimore review – vivid, intense biopic of heiress turned terrorist Rose Dugdale
Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy tell a cool, low-key drama about the wealthy debutante who joined the IRA, abetted an art heist and bombed a police station - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarMotherboard review – enthralling smartphone self-portrait of family life
Victoria Mapplebeck’s documentary stitches 20 years’ worth of footage into a home video love letter to her son, whose whole life so far is observed - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Flats review – a powerful look at the unresolved agony of the Troubles
Alessandra Celesia’s urgent documentary about the residents of an estate in Belfast speaks to the lasting trauma of political violence - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarBanel & Adama review – powerfully subversive Senegalese love story
Khady Mane dazzles as a young wife with a mind of her own in Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s poetic Palme d’Or-nominated debut feature - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarThe Fall Guy review – Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt dazzle in delightful action comedy
Two fantastic movie star turns lead this loving and supremely entertaining ode to stunt work based on the 80s TV series - Adrian Horton in Austin, Texas
starstarstarstarstarPhantom Parrot review – cautionary tale of state surveillance and the war on privacy
A compelling documentary on digital war-on-terror laws that centres on a programme that can mean prison for anyone who refuses UK police access to their smartphones - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Last Year of Darkness review – candid and intimate dive into Chinese club culture
Sensual study of Chengdu’s underground club scene follows unselfconscious clubbers, performers and musicians through their neon-detailed nights - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarBabes review – Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau elevate Pamela Adlon’s pregnancy comedy
The Broad City alum leads the Better Things creator’s directorial debut that enjoyably refashions the romcom for best friendship after kids - Adrian Horton in Austin, Texas
starstarstarstarstarFrida review – beguiling documentary captures Frida Kahlo’s spirit and originality
Archive footage and animation inspired by the Mexican artist’s work combine in Carla Gutiérrez’s beautiful, intimate tribute - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarHigh & Low: John Galliano review – Kevin Macdonald’s candid look at the fashion designer’s implosion
The film-maker’s frank, even-handed documentary assesses the fallout from the former Dior creative director’s antisemitic tirade and his standing today - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarDo Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World review – bracingly anarchic Romanian black comedy
Radu Jude’s portrait of an underpaid, overworked film production assistant with an obscenity-spewing alter ego lays into workplace ethics with brio - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarThe 2024 Oscar shorts review – intense drama, enticing animation and essential documentary
While Wes Anderson’s nomination has caused mild controversy there is an enticing and eclectic mix of strong contenders worthy of the win - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarRoom at the Top review – Jack Clayton’s 1950s take on toxic masculinity
A rerelease of the John Braine novel adaptation is no masterpiece but sits alongside films such as Lucky Jim and Billy Liar in its depiction of class conflict and young male frustration - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarFrida review – intimate dive into artist’s letters is raw and thrilling
Voiceovers of Frida Kahlo’s writing give us unprecedented insight into her life as she dealt with chronic pain, divorce, infidelity, miscarriage and commercial success - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarOur Body review – a brave, unblinking, hospital’s-eye view of women’s health
Documentarist Claire Simon films women, including herself, receiving care in a women’s health, obstetrics and gynaecology ward at a Parisian hospital - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarRed Island review – cocktails, colonialism and comics in 70s Madagascar
The last days of French rule on the island play out though the eyes of a young boy in 100 Beats Per Minute director Robin Campillo’s autobiographically-inspired drama - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarDune: Part Two review – sci-fi sequel is immense, breathtaking wonder
Timothée Chalamet returns to the desert as Denis Villeneuve triumphs again in filming the unfilmable with a colour-saturated blockbuster contemplating zealotry and religious war - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarFour Daughters review – emotionally wrenching look at why two Tunisian girls turned to fundamentalism
Director Kaouther Ben Hania weaves a real family’s reminiscences with dramatic reconstructions in this compelling, Oscar-nominated documentary - Wendy Ide
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
starstarstarstarstarAmerican Fiction review – entertaining comedy collision of race, class and envy
This enjoyable meta-level adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure tackles black-victimhood stereotypes, showcasing Jeffrey Wright and Issa Rae as rival writers - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarDalton’s Dream review – the troubled life of an X Factor winner
This documentary follows Dalton Harris whose storming 2018 triumph left him fearing failure and facing homophobic abuse, especially in his native Jamaica - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarFlathead review – a beautiful meditation on life in rural Queensland
Jaydon Martin’s absorbing, poetic docufiction follows two men reflecting on work, death and religion - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarLandscapes of Resistance review – an enigmatic meditation on a life marked by Auschwitz
This documentary by Serbian-born director Marta Popivoda is a mildly psychedelic drift into the horror of one woman’s deportation and determined survival - Phil Hoad
starstarstarstarstarSamsara review – unlike anything else you will experience in the cinema
Part film, part guided meditation, Lois Patiño’s tale of a Lao woman’s death and rebirth is partly designed to watch with your eyes closed - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarDìdi review – a tender, specific rendering of adolescence on the early internet
Sundance film festival: Sean Wang’s semi-autobiographical tale of an Asian American teen’s life played out online in 2008 is moving and detailed - Adrian Horton
starstarstarstarstarThelma review – June Squibb is a delight in sweet action-comedy
The Oscar nominee plays her first lead, at 94, in a tender and well-observed story of a grandmother refusing to accept the limitations of age - Adrian Horton
starstarstarstarstarSamsara review – a playfully mysterious invitation to contemplate death
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s influence can be traced in Spanish film-maker Lois Patiño’s whimsical meditation on the Buddhist cycle of life - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarPornomelancholia review – sorrows of the sweaty, permanently aroused sex influencer
Argentinian director Manuel Abramovich juxtaposes the spicier elements of porn star Lalo’s life with his loneliness - Catherine Bray
starstarstarstarstarTurn Your Body to the Sun review – staggering second world war survival story
Dutch Estonian novelist Sana Valiulina investigates the life of her father who was compelled to betray Stalin’s Soviet Union by serving the Nazi war machine - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarMy Old Ass review – charmingly shaggy high-concept comedy
Before she heads to college, a teenager meets her older self, played by Aubrey Plaza, in a sweet-natured and slickly made crowd-pleaser - Benjamin Lee in Park City, Utah
starstarstarstarstarExhibiting Forgiveness review – André Holland powers moving father-son drama
A standout turn from the Moonlight star helps to ignite a powerful story of an artist forced to reconnect with his abusive father - Benjamin Lee in Park City, Utah
starstarstarstarstarWerner Herzog: Radical Dreamer – fascinating portrait of the maverick film-maker
The German director is more illuminating than anyone else in this rich profile - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarThe Holdovers review – a masterclass in melancholy with Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph
Sideways director Alexander Payne reunites with that film’s star for a 70s-set tale of a boarding school’s Christmas holiday left-behinds that’s as achingly sharp as it is funny - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarI Saw the TV Glow review – devastating tale of identity, fandom and obsession
Jane Schoenbrun’s stunning second feature is both a horror-inflected story of teens fixated on a Buffy-esque TV show and a haunting trans allegory - Benjamin Lee in Park City, Utah
starstarstarstarstarThe Outrun review – Saoirse Ronan is remarkable in a sensitive recovery drama
The Oscar nominee gives one of her greatest performances as a young woman grappling with addiction in a moving and delicate adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir - Adrian Horton in Park City, Utah
starstarstarstarstarThe End We Start From review – Jodie Comer is phenomenal in end-of-days survival thriller
As England sinks beneath flood waters, a new mother finds herself fighting on two fronts in Mahalia Belo’s terrific debut feature, adapted from Megan Hunter’s novel - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarGirls State review – compelling follow-up to hit documentary
In 2020, filmmakerss Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine struck gold with their film on a mock government program for 1,000 teenage boys. Now, it’s the girls’ turn. - Adrian Horton in Park City, Utah
starstarstarstarstarGhostlight review – charming tale of DIY Shakespeare theater
Triangle of Sadness star Dolly De Leon steals scenes in an endearing story of a real family wrapped up in a lo-fi staging of Romeo and Juliet - Adrian Horton in Park City, Utah
starstarstarstarstarThe Holdovers review – brilliant Paul Giamatti hits the happy/sad sweet spot
Alexander Payne's story of a cantankerous teacher holed up for Christmas with a wayward teen and the school cook is expertly told with gentle, grownup comedy - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe End We Start From review – Jodie Comer shines in all too believable disaster drama
Comer plays a young woman whose baby arrives just as environmental crisis begins to break the society around her - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarWerner Herzog: Radical Dreamer review – master director’s passionate idealism
Account of the German film-maker’s singular career takes in numerous starry admirers but also is a portrait of an existential disruptor - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarRojek review – unsettlingly intimate portraits of Islamic State militants
Documentary collects sequence of interviews with prisoners, not all repentant, alongside footage of war-blasted Syrian Kurdistan - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarThe Disappearance of Shere Hite review – heartfelt hymn to the forgotten feminist
This fascinating documentary serves as a reminder of the courage of the pilloried author of The Hite Report - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarThe Disappearance of Shere Hite review – fascinating portrait of the woman who lifted the lid on sex
Shere Hite was a trailblazing sex educator who was pilloried for her work in the 1970s. This vivid documentary gives her the recognition she deserves - Cath Clarke
starstarstarstarstarArt Talent Show review – witty interrogation of art students asks the big questions
Hopefuls for the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague face a probing from their professors in a documentary that looks for answers about art, institutions and ourselves - Phuong Le
starstarstarstarstarScala!!! – a suitably riotous documentary about the subversive London cinema
Programmers, staff and celebrity patrons of the storied cult screen in London’s King’s Cross recall its anarchic 1980s heyday - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarGood Grief review – Dan Levy’s satisfyingly grown-up drama
The Schitt’s Creek co-creator stars in his directorial debut – a crisp, bittersweet tale of loss and friendship - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarSociety of the Snow review – nerve-shredding Andes plane crash drama
We all know how it ends, but JA Bayona’s dramatisation of a real-life story that descended into cannibalism is in a league of its own - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarScala!!! review – heartfelt tribute to an icon of independent cinema
This richly enjoyable documentary charts the rise and fall of a unique alt-cinephile repertory house which inspired generations of film-makers, artists and musicians - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarBurial review – deep dive into underworld of nuclear power and its toxic legacy
Emilija Škarnulytė’s hypnotic documentary zooms into the science of uranium and radioactivity, as well as cold war politics - Phuong Le
starstarstarstarstarPriscilla review – Sofia Coppola’s stylish, sensitive portrait of life with Elvis
Cailee Spaeny shines in the title role as Coppola delves into the knotty intricacies of Priscilla’s relationship with the rock’n’roll star - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarTchaikovsky’s Wife review – feverish biopic plays as a symphony of cruelty
Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov’s hallucinogenic portrait is a punishing, but admirably ambitious revisionist period piece - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarOne Life review – Anthony Hopkins in extraordinary true story of ‘British Schindler’
Hopkins stars as Nicholas Winton, who rescued 669 Jewish children from the Nazis – alongside Helena Bonham Carter on mighty form - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarMiranda’s Victim review – law-changing courtroom drama stuffed with acting muscle
Abigail Breslin is subtle as the 1960s victim of sexual crime in a dramatisation of a landmark case that is a welcome defence of US jurisprudence - Phil Hoad
starstarstarstarstarThe Boy and the Heron review – Miyazaki’s mysterious, magical fantasy on grief and meaning
Acclaimed animator’s unexpected return explores profound pain, relationships and elements of his own past in the company of typically surreal characters - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarSociety of the Snow review – cannibalism in the ice in incredible real-life survival tale
JA Bayona’s powerful retelling of the 1972 rugby team’s flight that crashed in the Andes and the agonising decisions passengers took in order to stay alive - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarEvery Body review – vibrant study of the lives of intersex people
Despite its accounts of brutal medical interventions, this is a celebratory, upbeat film - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarMonica review – Trace Lysette is remarkable in understated estrangement drama
Lysette gives an awards-worthy performance as a trans woman who reconciles with her dying mother in Andrea Pallaoro’s tightly focused third feature - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarGodzilla Minus One review – a thunderously entertaining prequel
A failed kamikaze pilot, one furious radioactive lizard and a Japan devastated by war collide in Takashi Yamazaki’s unashamedly redemptive action thriller - Wendy Ide
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