
Simon Baker is excellent – and unrecognisable – as a cop assigned to a cold case in director Ivan Sen's stark study of racial trauma

As another year draws to a close, our writers choose their favourite films, from daring debuts to boundary-breaking blockbusters

Paul Verhoeven's campy takedown of the church is undoubtably entertaining, though some of the meaning is lost the madness

Writer-director Francis Lee reinvents the period romance with a cautious two-hander that emphasises struggle over sensuality

The Bling Ring or The Beguiled? With On the Rocks now in cinemas, Ella Kemp sorts through the filmmaker's sumptuous canon so far...