Another Round review – the performance of a lifetime from Mads Mikkelsen
Four high-school teachers seek a better life on the lash in Thomas Vinterberg’s profound yet playful midlife crisis tale - Mark Kermode
starstarstarstarstarNashville review – Robert Altman’s country classic still sings
With its constant soundtrack of country music and political commentary, Altman’s sprawling state-of-the-nation epic reverberates with the troubled zeitgeist of the 70s - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarUltraviolence review – still no justice in follow-up doc on deaths in UK police custody
Ken Fero’s grim update to his fearless 2001 documentary Injustice, about police brutality against black men, is a shocking case of more of the same - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Reason I Jump review – a sensitive autistic eye on the world
This expressionistic documentary cleverly conveys the non-verbal life of its source book’s teenage author - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarFargo review – Coen brothers’ snowbound noir is still a work of gleaming brilliance
The Coens’ rereleased thriller about a pregnant police chief investigating a bungled kidnapping is a noir without cynicism; a macabre black comedy with purity at its core - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Father review – Anthony Hopkins superb in unbearably heartbreaking film
Hopkins gives a moving, Oscar-winning turn as a man with dementia in a film full of intelligent performances, disorienting time slips and powerful theatrical effects - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarAfter Love review – a lacerating portrait of a life built on marital lies
Joanna Scanlan gives the best performance of her career as Mary, a Muslim convert who uncovers the secret life led her late husband Ahmed - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarMaeve review – rapturously stark realist prose poem of 80s Belfast
Pat Murphy’s movie follows a young woman returning to Northern Ireland and a reckoning with sneering soldiers, brutal police and sexist hostility - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarNomadland review – Frances McDormand delivers the performance of her career
McDormand plays a boomer forced out of her home and on to the road in Chloé Zhao’s inspired docu-fiction - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarSisters With Transistors review – an electrifying study of musical heroines
The unsung trailblazers behind electronic music are paid harmonic homage in Lisa Rovner’s enchanting documentary - Leslie Felperin
starstarstarstarstarPromising Young Woman review – a deathly dark satire of gender politics
Carey Mulligan is at her ice-cold best as a scheming sociopath in this fearless unpicking of entitlement and victimhood - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarSound of Metal review – Riz Ahmed excels as a drummer facing deafness
Riz Ahmed gives a career-best performance in an astonishing drama that’s rooted in reality and fully captioned for all - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
starstarstarstarstarSongs My Brothers Taught Me review – Chloé Zhao's deeply intelligent debut
The Nomadland director’s authorship is obvious in this 2015 story of Lakota siblings adjusting to the death of their father - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarRomeo and Juliet review – National Theatre's first film is an ingenious triumph
Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley are captivating as the star-crossed lovers in a wondrous, adventurous production - Arifa Akbar
starstarstarstarstarMinari review – a Korean family sows seeds of hope in Arkansas
Infused with a wonderful sentimentality, Lee Isaac Chung’s fictionalised account of his rural US childhood explores the growing pains of a family farm - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarViolation review – a torrent of suppressed rage
Madeleine Sims-Fewer stars and co-directs this rape-revenge movie that brilliantly and brutally reframes the trauma inflicted by male violence - Phil Hoad
starstarstarstarstarMy Name Is Gulpilil review – sublime, humane, elegant traversal of Indigenous actor's life in film
Molly Reynolds’ superb documentary rises to the challenge of doing justice to the extraordinary life and career of the great veteran Yolŋu actor - Luke Buckmaster
starstarstarstarstarPetite Maman review – Céline Sciamma's spellbinding ghost story
A girl meets her mother as a child in the woods in a moving jewel of a film about memory, friendship and kin - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarFirestarter: The Story of Bangarra review – an engrossing celebration of artistic creation
Wayne Blair and Nel Minchin’s beguiling documentary deepens the already magical experience of watching the Indigenous dance company perform - Luke Buckmaster
starstarstarstarstarFlee review – remarkable refugee story told with heart and audacity
A thrilling documentary made with a blend of animation and archive footage tells an immensely powerful tale of a gay Afghan survivor - Benjamin Lee
starstarstarstarstarSummer of Soul review – thrilling documentary reveals a forgotten festival
Revelatory footage from the 1969 Harlem Cultural festival, crudely known for a while as the Black Woodstock, is brought to life in a spectacular new film - Jordan Hoffman
starstarstarstarstarIrish National Opera: 20 Shots of Opera review – every one a discovery
Of the moment, full of character and rich in variety, these short filmed operas are exemplary lockdown music-making - Fiona Maddocks
starstarstarstarstarThe Masque of the Red Death review – horribly apt Poe adaptation
Roger Corman’s 1964 cult classic about a medieval pestilence closing in on a decadent count played by Vincent Price has uncomfortable resonance - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarQuo Vadis, Aida? review – shattering return to Srebrenica
Through the eyes of a translator moving between the different ethnic factions, director Jasmila Žbanić musters real tragic power and clear-eyed compassion revisiting the massacre 25 years on - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarDear Comrades! review – stunning re-creation of a Soviet-era massacre
Andrei Konchalovsky’s account of the day Red Army soldiers and KGB snipers opened fire on strikers is a rage-filled triumph - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarMother review – a heartbreaking inquiry into the cost of dementia
Kristof Bilsen’s stunning doc assesses the disease’s toll on patients and carers trapped in the international care-market - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarPieces of a Woman review – Vanessa Kirby excels in outstanding study of grief
This unflinching tale of neonatal death is a highly personal project for director Kornél Mundruczó and writer Kata Wéber - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarBloody Nose, Empty Pockets review – bittersweet bar-room endgame
Street-cast characters play fictionalised versions of themselves in this riotous documentary about a closing-down Las Vegas watering hole - Simran Hans
starstarstarstarstarCollective review – shocking exposé of needless deaths in Romania
In Alexander Nanau’s searing documentary a heroic reporter investigates why the majority of victims of a nightclub fire died because of health-care fraud - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarSmall Axe review – Steve McQueen triumphs with tales of Britain's Caribbean history
The Oscar winner’s five-part anthology begins with Mangrove, a long-overdue dramatisation of a landmark trial, featuring luminous portrayals and nuanced representation - Ellen E Jones
starstarstarstarstarMank review – David Fincher swooningly revisits myth of Citizen Kane
Gary Oldman plays cynical screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz in a gorgeously shot film that both revels in Hollywood’s golden age and exposes its corruption - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarAbout Endlessness review – mesmerising odyssey to the heart of existence
Swedish auteur Roy Andersson’s latest is another masterpiece of the human condition, ranging from the evils of war to the redemptive power of love - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarRelic review – heartbreaking horror about Alzheimer's
A matriarch’s failing mind brings darkness to the family home in Natalie Erika James’s unforgettably chilling debut feature - Mark Kermode
starstarstarstarstarWolfwalkers review – an exquisite Irish animation masterpiece
This dazzling 17th-century folk tale is a total joy - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarThe Ladykillers review – a comic crime caper that still kills
Sixty-five years later the classic from Ealing Studios is still subversive, hilarious and distinctly English - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarUncle Vanya review – coronavirus gives Chekhov a shot in the arm
The pandemic supercharges the atmosphere in this film version of Ian Rickson’s recent stage production - Susannah Clapp
starstarstarstarstarSoul review – Pixar's rapturous tale of a jazz nut on a surreal out-of-body journey
There’s not much logic involved in this weird and wonderful story of a pianist who is accidentally transported to a strange, otherworldly domain - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarSaint Maud review – a chilling nurse on a mission from God
Morfydd Clark and Jennifer Ehle are terrific as carer and patient in Rose Glass’s extraordinary psychological horror - Mark Kermode Observer film critic
starstarstarstarstarSaint Maud review – nursing a nightmare of erotic intimacy
Morfydd Clark is superb as a troubled caregiver in this extraordinarily scary horror melodrama - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarYield to the Night review – unforgettable death-row drama starring Diana Dors
Harrowing prison scenes transfigure this gripping 1956 story of a woman awaiting execution for murder, written just before the hanging of Ruth Ellis - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarRed, White and Blue review – Steve McQueen and John Boyega hit gold
Issues of bigotry, belonging, race and redemption and are unpicked in this majestic biopic of police officer Leroy Logan - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarMangrove review – Steve McQueen takes axe to racial prejudice
The notorious 1970 prosecution that exposed police harassment of black Britons is brilliantly evoked as part of the director’s Small Axe project - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarRocks review - empowering, uplifting teenage girl power
An east London schoolgirl abandoned by her mother struggles to survive in this gritty yet irrepressible ensemble movie - Mark Kermode
starstarstarstarstarLovers Rock review – Steve McQueen throws the best party ever
Filled with rows, romance and sexual adventure, this story of an uproarious celebration in 80s west London is an audacious, euphoric experience - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarResidue review – haunting drama on the dangers of gentrification
A visually striking and timely film from first-time writer-director Merawi Gerima sees a film-maker returning to an unrecognisable DC neighbourhood - Radheyan Simonpillai
starstarstarstarstarLa Haine review – effervescent classic radiates with rage and comedy
Mathieu Kassovitz’s celebrated story of inequality in a Paris banlieue is a timely rerelease in the Black Lives Matter era - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Duke review – art thief takes one for the common man
Roger Michell’s warm take on the true story of how Kempton Bunton acquired the National Gallery’s new Goya features a glorious performance by Jim Broadbent - Xan Brooks
starstarstarstarstarTenet review – supremely ambitious race against time makes for superb cinema
Go with it, and Christopher Nolan’s high-concept action romp will leave you ripping off your face mask for air, even as you wonder what it was all about - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarBabyteeth review – a fearless debut about young love
Terminally ill girl meets drug-addicted boy in Shannon Murphy’s waywardly glorious first feature - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarI Saw the World End review – how a bomb changed life on Earth in a flash
Marking 75 years since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, stage designers Devlin and Weston have made a film of immense power – but it won’t be seen as it was meant to - Jonathan Jones
starstarstarstarstarBoys State review – amazing study of teenagers running for pretend office
The gloves and training wheels come off as a group of smart, poignantly naive and utterly insufferable Texas boys get together to simulate government - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarStory of a Love Affair review – Antonioni's riveting postwar noir
The Italian director’s rereleased debut 1950 feature is a stylish study of wealth, ennui, guilt and fear - with an exceptional central performance by Lucia Bosè - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarStrasbourg 1518 review – Jonathan Glazer's cathartic spasm of protest for our times
The Under the Skin director’s short film – inspired by a mass-hysteria outbreak of dancing in the 16th century – speaks to our own feelings about lockdown - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarClemency review – Alfre Woodard quietly dazzles in this superb death row drama
Woodard plays a conflicted prison warden slowly unravelling in writer-director Chinonye Chukwu’s remarkable film - Mark Kermode
starstarstarstarstarClemency – brilliant, devastating death-row drama
Alfre Woodard gives a towering performance as a prison warden increasingly troubled by her role in America’s execution system - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarSaint Frances review – wry, tender, taboo-busting drama
Writer Kelly O’Sullivan stars in her bittersweet tale of a child-phobic waitress turned nanny, an exhilarating examination of female lives on screen - Mark Kermode
starstarstarstarstarLynn + Lucy review – a devastating tale of friends disunited
Two former schoolmates are turned against each other in this terrific working-class drama from debut feature director Fyzal Boulifa - Mark Kermode
starstarstarstarstarHamilton review – Broadway hit is now a breathtaking screen sensation
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical is smart, witty, funky and leaves us reflecting on America’s past and future - Arifa Akbar
starstarstarstarstarDa 5 Bloods review – Spike Lee ignites a Vietnam cocktail of fire and fury
Four war veterans return to south-east Asia to confront a ghost from their past in a shocking, incendiary blend of searing satire and action-movie drama - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarPass Over review – Spike Lee directs Antoinette Nwandu’s masterful tragedy
Lee’s 2018 film of Nwandu’s powerful play, written as a response to the shooting of Trayvon Martin, resonates after the George Floyd killing - Arifa Akbar
starstarstarstarstarWilkie Branson: TOM review – a sublime, slow-burn study of isolation
Part dance performance, part film, this solo show is a note-perfect portrayal of the all-consuming nature of loneliness - Lyndsey Winship
starstarstarstarstarThe Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice review – Ozu's bittersweet triumph
This portrait of married middle age is deliciously flavoured with mystery and melancholy - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarWomen Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema review – paean to neglected talent
Film-maker and historian of the movies Mark Cousins’ 14-hour survey of amazing but overlooked auteurs is a marvel of passionate cinephilia - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarFuneral Parade of Roses review – surreal classic charts Tokyo's queer underground
Fifty years on, Toshio Matsumoto’s monochrome masterpiece – now rereleased on streaming platforms – still seems like a chilling message from the future - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarNever Rarely Sometimes Always review - profoundly moving abortion drama
Eliza Hittman’s coming-of-age story about a US teenager seeking a termination is heartbreaking and painfully authentic - Mark Kermode
starstarstarstarstarThe Assistant review – #MeToo drama offers unsettling study of day-to-day abuse
Film about assistant to a New York film mogul details how stress, humiliation and bullying become the enablers for abuse by powerful men - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarSystem Crasher review – searing portrait of a broken psyche
Helena Zengel shines as a furiously traumatised child in Nora Fingscheidt’s extraordinary drama - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarVillain review – Richard Burton's masterclass in nastiness
The actor’s ruined handsomeness was perfect for his portrayal of a psychopathically violent gangster in this classic 1971 thriller - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Elephant Man review – David Lynch's tragic tale of compassion
Four decades on, John Hurt’s performance gives this biopic a poignancy that marks it apart from the rest of director’s work - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarPortrait of a Lady on Fire review – mesmerised by the female gaze
Céline Sciamma delivers an entrancing and perceptive exploration of power - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
starstarstarstarstarDAU. Natasha review – an exquisitely sinister study of Soviet oppression
As part of a colossal art project, Ilya Khrzhanovsky has made an intimately eerie examination of the banality of evil - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarFirst Cow review – Kelly Reichardt’s superbly chewy tale of milk cakes in the old west
The Meek’s Cutoff director returns with a distinctive story about a pair of drifters trying to make money by stealing milk from a newly-arrived cow - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarGhost review – Patrick Swayze's immortal meditation on love and grief
Three decades on, this weepie classic retains an innocence and earnestness that makes it as delightfully comforting as ever - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarParasite review – a gasp-inducing masterpiece
In Bong Joon-ho’s flawless tragicomedy, a poor yet united family bluff their way into the lives of a wealthy Seoul household - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
starstarstarstarstarParasite review – searing satire of a family at war with the rich
Members of an unemployed family target a wealthy household in Bong Joon-ho’s superbly written, horribly fascinating comedy-drama - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Personal History of David Copperfield review – Iannucci makes Dickens his own
Armando Iannucci’s absurdist adaptation is full to bursting with fantastic comic performances - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
starstarstarstarstarUncut Gems review – an exhilarating, full-blown assault of a movie
Adam Sandler gives a career-best performance as a ducking-and-diving New York diamond dealer - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarUncut Gems review – this sparkler will be the most exciting film of the year
Adam Sandler gives a terrific, career-best performance as a Manhattan jeweller with a perilous gambling habit in a rollicking, high-energy thriller - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarLa Dolce Vita review – a sexy, surreal masterpiece of modernity
Federico Fellini’s rereleased film brilliantly captures postwar Rome and its denizens as they tumble headlong into hedonistic excess – and secret melancholy - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarLong Day's Journey Into Night review – an exhilarating slo-mo hallucination
Mystery, passion and fear permeate the obsessive reverie of a man searching for his lost love, which takes flight in an audacious 3D dream-fantasy sequence - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarThe Kingmaker review – exquisitely horrible portrait of Imelda Marcos
The former first lady of the Philippines is revealed as a monstrous, loathsome, absurdly queenly figure in Lauren Greenfield’s superb documentary - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarOrdinary Love review – Manville and Neeson excel in joyous heartbreaker
Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson are note-perfect in Owen McCafferty’s profoundly moving drama - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
starstarstarstarstarSo Long, My Son review – a gorgeous, melancholy masterpiece
Three decades of Chinese history are told through the lives of two couples linked by tragedy - Wendy Ide
starstarstarstarstarSo Long, My Son review – exquisite, agonising Chinese family saga
The epic story of two married couples enduring personal tragedy and state-imposed suffering is an almost unbearably poignant, profound masterpiece - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstar1917 review – Sam Mendes turns western front horror into a single-shot masterpiece
This phantasmagoric first world war nightmare from the British director is ambitious and unshakeable storytelling - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarLittle Women review – sisters are writin' it for themselves in Greta Gerwig's festive treat
Saoirse Ronan and Emma Watson head a terrific all-star cast in a wonderfully warm, funny and heartfelt version of Louisa May Alcott’s coming-of-age classic - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarMarriage Story review – Noah Baumbach’s best film yet
Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver excel in Baumbach’s bittersweet heartbreaker - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
starstarstarstarstarMarriage Story review – everything you always wanted to know about divorce
Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson are terrific as a couple facing the awful aftermath of their relationship in Noah Baumbach’s heartfelt drama - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarMonos 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
starstarstarstarstarHoop 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
starstarstarstarstarSingin' 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
starstarstarstarstarThe 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
starstarstarstarstarBeanpole 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
starstarstarstarstarThe 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
starstarstarstarstarSturgill Simpson: Sound & Fury review – country's outlaw catches fire
Another big shift in direction for Simpson, with anime visuals, glam rock, disco and grunge ornamenting never-more-country lyrics: it’s extraordinary - Alexis Petridis
starstarstarstarstarThe Third Man review – torn between heaven and hell, a classic noir
Blustering, conceited, charming – Orson Welles is still spellbinding in Carol Reed’s compelling parable of guilt, now rereleased 70 years on - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarRocks review – high school tale is an energetic five-star triumph
The East London-set drama boasts wit, a dynamic cast and a piercing sadness as it follows a Nigerian British girl and her younger brother - Peter Bradshaw in Toronto
starstarstarstarstarMidnight Cowboy review – a still potent stew of 60s sleaze
Fifty years on, Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman’s squabbling amid the squalor of low-rent New York remains a heartbreaking triumph - Peter Bradshaw
starstarstarstarstarFor Sama review – searing story of a Syrian warzone baby
A student documenting the siege of Aleppo kept filming when she became pregnant. The result is a profoundly moving study of horror and hope - Mike McCahill
starstarstarstarstarThe Painted Bird review – savage, searing three-hour tour of hell
Stellan Skarsgård, Harvey Keitel and Udo Kier star in this phantasmagorical horror about eastern Europe that saw half the Venice audience walk out. I couldn’t look away - Xan Brooks
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