A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.
Four decades on, John Hurt’s performance gives this biopic a poignancy that marks it apart from the rest of director’s workThe Guardian
Chinonye Chukwu's downbeat death row drama is a gripping portrait of a woman losing her composure and sense of purpose
Tom Hanks writes and stars in this brisk and breezy tale of naval heroism as yet another captain charged with a crisis at sea
Ben Affleck's performance as a high school basketball coach just about rescues a film that's too scared to break from cliché
The true story of science project Biosphere 2 is brought to life in a doc that listens to its subjects but keeps a frustrating distance
As Inception turns 10 this week, we look at how Nolan's particular brand of info dumping came to define his dream state thriller
An in-depth look at Alfonso Cuarón's dystopian masterpiece, the century's most prescient and dazzling vision of the future gone bad
What to rent and stream, from a Ben Affleck basketball drama to a Tom Hanks-starring story about yet another competent captain...
With the year at its halfway point, our writers choose their favourite films so far, from audacious biopics to timely social satires
