Maggie Gyllenhaal is compelling in this rich character study about a mentor and her protégé.
Brie Larson is great as Carol Danvers, but we’d hoped for slightly more from Marvel’s first female solo superhero movie.
An evicted Dublin family are left stranded in this deeply moving and beautifully restrained drama.
By Anton Bitel
A customs officer falls in love with a strange traveller in Ali Abbasi’s twisted modern romance.
Corruption reigns free on the Israel/Palestine border in this intriguing feature from Samuel Maoz.
Married gay lawyers in Osaka fight everyday injustice in this delightful, deadpan documentary.
By Ella Kemp
Camille Vidal-Naquet’s impressive debut feature is infused with skin-prickling energy.
By Elena Lazic
Keira Knightley and Alexander Skarsgård experience forbidden love in postwar Germany.
By Andy Crump
A mother-son relationship is stretched to its limits in this affecting and chilling Irish horror.
Teen love matching at a fusty public school is the backdrop to this intermittently successful romantic comedy.
Felicity Jones takes on the mantle of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in this earnest but toothless biopic.
A Lebanese pre-teener sues his parents for having him in Nadine Labaki’s tale of poverty and neglect.
By Greg Evans
Florence Pugh plays an aspiring WWE wrestler in Stephen Merchant’s entertaining sports drama.
A group of school kids embark on an Arthurian quest in Joe Cornish’s charming adventure movie.
By Elena Lazic
Mia Wasikowska and Christopher Abbot play wicked games in this psychosexual horror.
Nothing happens for a very long time in Abdellatif Kechiche’s follow-up to Blue is the Warmest Colour.
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