By Omer Ali
Arch misanthropist Todd Solondz tones down the glum in this bitterly funny profile of a thirtysomething living with his folks.
By Jim Ross
The UK’s most beloved music jamboree gets a cluttered but enjoyable cinematic paean.
By Matt Thrift
Hungarian colossus Béla Tarr’s ‘last film’ is a magnificent, towering achievement.
Ridley Scott’s sci-fi saga is an overreaching folly that’s well worth seeing on the biggest screen possible.
Gareth Evans’ deliriously violent Indonesian martial arts flick is the most exciting action movie of the last decade.
Despite obvious flaws, there’s a decent amount to admire in Tim Burton’s bizarre retro horror comedy.
Takashi Miike follows up his blood-pumping samurai blitzkrieg 13 Assassins with this talky and tiresome period drama.
Wes Anderson has made a film about youth that feels like it was ripped from the overactive imagination of a 12-year-old.
Joss Whedon’s Marvel maelstrom is a shiny, caged beast of a film that delivers on its every promise.
Mumblecore empress Greta Gerwig dazzles in Whit Stillman’s first film in 13 years.
Peter Berg’s blockbusting board game ripoff has more rough edges than a sandpaper Rubik’s Cube.
By Tom Seymour
Paulo Sorrentino and Sean Penn unite for a dark road movie handled with lightness and ease.
Aki Kaurismäki’s charming people-trafficking drama gently floats into the realms of the magical.
Jafar Panahi’s extraordinary self-portrait/protest piece is the gift that keeps on giving.
There’s adventure all right, and science in spades, but someone buried the piracy in Aardman’s latest stop-motion treasure.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s hypnotic metaphysical noir is towering, tough and very, very pretty.