The story of how Rock Against Racism combatted fascism in ’70s Britain has some disturbing contemporary parallels.
By Thomas Hobbs
Max Richter’s eight-hour concept album is brought to life via Natalie Johns’s immersive concert film.
How Brooklyn’s finest changed the rap game, as told by the group’s two surviving members.
Taylor Swift, TS Eliot and Digital Fur Technology combine to disastrous effect in this feline musical folly.
By BP Flanagan
Back in cinemas courtesy of the BFI, this adaptation of The Who’s rock opera is as wildly entertaining as ever.
Seamus Murphy’s globetrotting musical travelogue with PJ Harvey is a self-defeating creative exercise.
This tender portrait of the exuberant INXS frontman avoids tabloid hysteria in its search for a fragile soul.
By BP Flanagan
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly’s timeless musical remains an effervescent, life-affirming wonder.
Berry Gordy leads a roster of iconic artists in paying tribute to one of the most successful record companies of the 20th century.
Renée Zellweger returns from the wilderness with a performance of awe-striking confidence and emotion.
Elisabeth Moss is a punk-rock musician spinning out of control in Alex Ross Perry's latest.
By Matt Thrift
An epic in the literal sense of the world. Mariano Llinás goes long with this thrilling paean to genre cinema through the ages.
By Iana Murray
A Leningrad rock star takes centre stage in Kirill Serebrennikov’s Soviet-era tale of youth in revolt.
Gurinder Chadha’s sentimental coming-of-ager charts a British-Pakistani teen’s fixation with Bruce Springsteen.
By Ed Gibbs
Documentarian Nick Broomfield shows his romantic side with this touching portrait of Leonard Cohen and his muse.
The Beatles’ sublime songbook is the subject of this sadly underpowered and incurious romantic Britcom.
Bobbi Jene Smith shines in this intimate dance-drama from first-time writer/director Georgia Parris.