With the year at the halfway point, our writers choose their favourite films, from daring documentaries to box office bombs
Kelly Fremon Craig's take on the '70s coming-of-age classic strikes an unerring balance between laughs, giddiness, and poignancy
Simon Baker is excellent – and unrecognisable – as a cop assigned to a cold case in director Ivan Sen's stark study of racial trauma
To coincide with the release of Women Talking, Anna McKibbin explores the ethos behind the films of the acclaimed director
As another year draws to a close, our writers choose their favourite films, from daring debuts to boundary-breaking blockbusters
An enticingly snowy and spooky premise is wasted on an overlong, unsatisfying, and poorly acted murder-mystery from Scott Cooper
Julian Fellowes plays the expected hits in this soapy and sweet second movie spin-off, set on the stunning French Riviera
Taking their cues from Herzog, Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis deliver a spectacular tale about an ill-fated treasure hunt
As the 25th edition comes to both cinemas and streaming, we highlight our picks for the most essential features...
The writer-director's ambitious 10th feature, his most idiosyncratic work yet, is a charming buffet of unabashed Francophilia