By Matt Thrift
One of Germany’s most important living artists is the subject of this dud biography from Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.
A perfectly calibrated central performance by Mélanie Thierry powers this dour wartime literary drama.
Kenneth Branagh directs and stars in this familiar and rather silly William Shakespeare biopic.
Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie play duelling monarchs in this lifeless period piece.
By Beth Webb
Keira Knightley plays the eponymous French author in a biopic which doesn’t match the imagination of its subject.
By Rory Marsh
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers delivers a scene-stealing turn in this chilly World War Two survival drama.
By Rory Marsh
Jason Isaacs narrates this road-trip documentary about a group of bikers on a Holocaust pilgrimage.
Veteran filmmaker Mike Leigh delivers a history lesson about the oft-forgotten 1819 Peterloo Massacre in Manchester.
A wartime book group harbours a dark secret in this sparky British drama from director Mike Newell.
Two men return from war only to be confronted by racism in Dee Rees’ vital and sprawling American epic.
Filmmaker Jennifer Brea lays herself bare in this fascinating study of chronic fatigue syndrome.
Armando Iannucci plays post-Stalinist power grabs for laughs in this chilling, frequently hilarious historical satire.
Judi Dench reprises her role as Queen Victoria in this touching study of later-life depression.
By Mark Allison
A group of German POWs are forced to dig up land mines in Martin Zandvliet’s war drama.
Christopher Nolan’s breathtaking historical opus attempts to give the viewer a taste of what war actually feels like.
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