The heartbreaking story of Jennifer and June Gibbons feels undersold by Agnieszka Smoczynska's drama.
By Lydia Figes
The artist Charlotte Salomon, who died in the Holocaust, receives a long-overdue biography through this inventive animated film.
Guillermo del Toro finally realises his long-gestating passion project, with charming results.
Will Smith brings stern dramatic heft to an enslaved man making a dash for freedom in Antoine Fuqua’s tonally mish-mashed action drama.
A home movie becomes an important historical artefact, revealing the devastation of the Holocaust for the Jewish residents of a small Polish town.
Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig reunite as a couple grappling with their fear of death in Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel.
The Dardenne brothers return with a harrowing story of human trafficking in Belgium, centring on two young migrants.
Alexandre O Philippe traces the connection between David Lynch and Victor Fleming's The Wizard of Oz.
Ondi Timoner films the final days of her father’s life in an informative, detailed and unpolished account of assisted death.
An undocumented immigrant working as a nanny in New York faces supernatural forces in Nikyatu Jusu's spell-binding and assured feature debut.
The astonishing saga of Syrian refugee-turned-Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini is effectively presented by writer/director Sally El Hosaini.
Benoit Blanc enters the canon of iconic movie characters with Rian Johnson’s second foray into whodunit (nu-dunit?) territory.
Maria Schrader tackles the New York Times investigation that brought down Harvey Weinstein in this well-pitched drama.
A lonely newlywed embarks on a clandestine affair with her gamekeeper in Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s adaptation of the classic DH Lawrence novel.
Football provides the common thread for Aleksandre Koberidze's dreamy drama set on the Rioni river.
Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet play a pair of young cannibals on a trans-America road trip in Luca Guadagnino's sweet, squelchy horror romance.
This retro-inspired Disney adventure yarn boasts lots of great, progressive ideas, but lacks in the imagination department.
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