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As I leave the post, I look back on how cinema has changed since 2013 and, below, pick a favourite movie from each year of my tenure – as well as a turkey → Read More
Korean-Canadian writer-director Celine Song’s tremendous feature debut tells the poignant tale of childhood sweethearts separated by fate and thousands of miles → Read More
With star turns from Vanessa Kirby and Hayley Atwell, plus a zeitgeisty AI plot, this seventh MI outing is one of the most exhilarating yet → Read More
The octogenarian star gives it his all in James Mangold’s fun but formulaic action adventure co-starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge and a scenery-sucking Mads Mikkelsen → Read More
The writer-director’s knowing meta-tale set in a space-obsessed 1950s desert town has a starry cast and meticulous attention to detail, but its studied quirkiness is often more irritating than amusing → Read More
Natey Jones and Alexandra Burke play a couple tussling with dreams and secret shame in Dionne Edwards’s defiant yet uplifting drama with music at its core → Read More
Kelvin Harrison Jr commands the screen in Stephen Williams’s brashly anachronistic drama about the French composer, violin virtuoso and champion fencer Joseph Bologne → Read More
Tina Satter’s verbatim film about the FBI’s interrogation of US intelligence leaker Reality Winner is a stranger-than-fiction reflection of our precarious times → Read More
Affleck is in full frowny mode as a haunted cop on the tail of a criminal mastermind in a thriller that seems to revel in its absurdity → Read More
It doesn’t have the magic of the original, but Halle Bailey gives a winning performance, backed by a strong supporting cast → Read More
Joaquin Phoenix plays a hapless middle-aged man on a tortuous journey to see his mum in the Midsommar director’s three-hour black comedy of Oedipal angst → Read More
Fasten your seatbelts as everything smashes into everything else in this not-quite finale to the Fast and Furious franchise → Read More
Self-effacing and wryly defiant, the Hollywood actor, diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at 29, reflects on a life of two halves in this revealing documentary → Read More
An adopted woman travels from France to South Korea in search of her roots in Davy Chou’s star-making second film → Read More
Lisa Cortés’s richly enjoyable film examines the alter egos and queer theories surrounding a conflicted star who was way ahead of his time → Read More
In the role of a lifetime, Léa Seydoux plays a widowed single mum caught between new romance and the failing mind of her father in the French director’s deeply personal Cannes prize winner → Read More
On a perilous quest to build a church in the wilds of Iceland, a zealous young Danish priest’s faith starts to crack in this striking historical epic → Read More
Saeed Roustayi’s tense policier about a cop hunting a drug kingpin deftly mixes brutality and gallows farce → Read More
The actor’s live-wire performance in Brandon Cronenberg’s outlandish satire about super-rich tourists being cloned on a holiday from hell is worth the admission price alone → Read More
Belgian director Lukas Dhont’s Oscar-nominated drama about two inseparable boys tragically driven apart is a low-key treat → Read More