A teenage cartoonist searches for authenticity in writer/director Owen Kline’s pleasingly grubby debut feature.
By Ed Gibbs
This multi-sensory look at David Bowie’s life and career is an all-consuming affair that explores and safeguards the man’s legacy.
A police detective forms a dangerous bond with a woman suspected of murdering her husband in Park Chan-wook’s swooning crime drama.
By Steph Green
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi mines her memories attending the prestigious Théâtre des Amandiers for this nostalgia-soaked drama.
By Mark Asch
Annie Ernaux and her son David piece together a magical home movie essay on marriage, motherhood and the whole damn thing.
A family’s quiet mountain life is disrupted by the arrival of a relative in Lea Mysius’ beguiling second feature.
By Steph Green
First-time director Charlotte Le Bon draws out sweet performances from her young co-stars in this idyllic coming-of-ager.
Gina Gammel and Riley Keough’s debut feature focuses on two Oglala Lakota teenagers as they come of age in South Dakota.
By Mark Asch
Ethan Coen’s solo debut effort is a ribald and energising archive montage on the life of taboo-busting rocker, Jerry Lee Lewis.
Ali Abbasi’s harrowing Iranian noir tells the true story of Saeed Hanaei, who murdered 16 female sex workers between 2000-2001.
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu returns with a superb social realist western with its finger on the erratic pulse of Europe.
Davy Chou’s bittersweet comedy of a Korean adoptee searching for her biological parents is powered by a dazzling lead performance.
A young model couple find themselves on the holiday from hell in the latest provocation from Sweden’s Ruben Östlund.
George Miller returns to our screens with an ambitious tale of desire and magic featuring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba.
Thomas M Wright’s atmospheric but underwhelming thriller tells of an elaborate sting operation to catch a killer in Australia.
Paul Mescal doesn’t quite nail his role as a depressed young father in this emotionally furtive debut drama from Charlotte Wells.
Arnaud Desplechin’s scintillating family ensemble charts a toxic sibling rivalry, with Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupard.
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