By D'Arcy Doran
Violence as a way of life in Jia Zhangke’s searing state-of-the-nation address.
Hayao Miyazaki’s brilliant swansong is a complex, swooning melodrama on aviation and the caveats of creativity.
The lead singer of Super Furry Animals heads on a whimsical adventure odyssey in search of his cultural roots.
A Rolls Royce romantic comedy set in Mumbai that rides on a delectable, bittersweet central turn by Irrfan Khan.
By Anton Bitel
Richard Ayoade branches out into steampunk paranoia with this feisty and funny adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1846 novella.
Tahar Rahim and Bérénice Bejo are on top form in this immaculate study of marital disharmony.
The Muppets return to the big screen for more zany antics in this big-hearted creature feature.
This bruising and brutal jailhouse carve-up rides on the back of an astonishing central turn by Jack O’Connell.
By Violet Lucca
Jonathan Glazer’s erotic and philosophically-inclined feminist sci-fi fable is an extraordinary one-off.
By Mark Asch
A meek and mild school teacher spirals into Aussie Hell in this riveting, repellant restoration.
Francis Ford Coppola’s magnum opus gets a big screen outing, see it if only to be able to understand The Simpsons better.
A scintillating and quietly radical gay-cruising murder mystery set in a single, sunny location.
The modern world is a strange and beautiful place in Jim Jarmusch’s melancholy vampire masterpiece.
Whimsical futuro-romance effortlessly evolves into ambiguous, unfathomable hard sci-fi in Spike Jonze’s best film to date.
By Violet Lucca
French master Claire Denis gets seedy and sinister with an extraordinary modern riff on the classic noir thriller.
By Chris Blohm
Is this a glossy feature-length advert for toys? Nope, it’s a whimsical and hilarious piece of animated nostalgia from Phil Lord and Chris Miller.
Cold exteriors and warm interiors combine in the Coen brothers’ rhapsodic portrait of a ’60s folk singer.
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