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.
George Clooney socks it to the Nazis in this rambling adventure yarn with an all-star cast.
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.
A sugar pill treatment of how US pharma companies and the government tackled the ’80s HIV epidemic.
There are nuggets of honesty amid the gung-ho jingoism in Peter Berg’s starry-eyed war story.
On yer bike! One man doc machine Alex Gibney returns with a searing analysis of cyclist Lance Armstrong.
By Matt Thrift
A magnetic Christian Bale adds much-needed gravitas to this otherwise conventional blue-collar revenge saga.
Cold exteriors and warm interiors combine in the Coen brothers’ rhapsodic portrait of a ’60s folk singer.
By Calum Marsh
A late-career dirty bomb from Martin Scorsese in this licentious and hilarious essay on greed and excess.
By Mark Asch
One of classic cinema’s great, uncategorisable outliers returns triumphantly to the big screen.
Kit Harrington and Alicia Vikander do the best to lift this underwhelming British heritage drama.
By Ashley Clark
One of Britain’s greatest living filmmakers offers an outraged, intense and artful examination of American slavery.
Jean Cocteau’s ravishing and erotic masterwork is restored as part of BFI’s huge survey of Gothic cinema.
Ben Stiller’s latest directorial effort offers the balmy reassurance of a ‘Hang in There, Kitty’ poster.
A bittersweet road movie about the joy and sadness of ageing directed by the great Alexander Payne.
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