 

With the year at the halfway point, our writers choose their favourite films, from daring documentaries to box office bombs

A love of literature, people, and cosy reading nooks fuels A.B. Zax's gentle, unhurried film that pays tribute to small-town togetherness

The Creed actress compels in director Steve Buscemi's first feature effort in decades, though his film falls a little on the forgettable side

From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital

The first entry since 2018 is one of the worst studio films in recent memory, a towering anti-blockbuster that's rotten to the core

Benjamin Millepied's debut film gets some heat out of Paul Mescal and Melissa Barrera but feels like an over-extended music video

The director's alleged "final" movie is another heavy-handed revolt against modern Britain, but its optimism eventually wins through

The fourth film by the British director is a deeply disturbing and suffocating look at complicity, loosely based on Martin Amis' novel

Adam Solomons talks to the Ukrainian director about his Cannes hit and how even a non-political film can be bastardised by war

First-time director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk delivers a richly drawn, impressively subtle film set on the Ukrainian borderlands