Fight Club review – prescient, tremendously acted classic still feels overblown
Its ungainly final twist and unreal violence sequences dim a film with a brilliant premise and rage that still stings
Emma Stone wins best actress Oscar for Poor Things
Stone takes her second prize in this category for her controversial role in the Yorgos Lanthimos-directed period fantasy
‘We refute our Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked’: Jonathan Glazer calls for end to Gaza attacks at Oscars
Accepting the award for best international film for The Zone of Interest, Glazer took to the stage to make an impassioned call for his Auschwitz drama to make people reassess the contemporary conflict in the middle east
Room at the Top review – Jack Clayton’s 1950s take on toxic masculinity
A rerelease of the John Braine novel adaptation is no masterpiece but sits alongside films such as Lucky Jim and Billy Liar in its depiction of class conflict and young male frustration
Dune v Dune: do Denis Villeneuve’s films stay true to the book?
As the second part of Villeneuve’s big-screen adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi novel hits cinemas, we explore what the Dune movies get right – and wrong
Spaceman review – Adam Sandler consoled by unscary giant spider in deep space
Adaptation of Czech absurdist novel finds Sandler on a trippy cosmic mission while his marriage breaks down on Earth
Dune: Part Two review – second half of hallucinatory sci-fi epic is staggering spectacle
Denis Villeneuve’s monumental adaptation expands its extraordinary world of shimmering strangeness. It’s impossible to imagine anyone doing it better
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer gamble pays off with Bafta night success
Nolan’s complex epic won best picture, best director, best actor and best supporting actor – but awards for The Zone of Interest, Poor Things and The Holdovers show they could still cause upsets on Oscar night
Paul Mescal – from lockdown TV crush to emblem of sad-eyed masculinity
At only 28, the Irish actor has his third tilt at a Bafta in Sunday’s ceremony for his role in All of Us Strangers. But he’s not hungry for mainstream celebrity life
Interview With the Vampire review – Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt’s brilliant bloodsucking bromance
Neil Jordan’s horror-comedy features Cruise in scene-chewing form in a film that outrageously explores the vampire’s actually rather complex lived experience
The Promised Land review – Mads Mikkelsen is a Euro Gary Cooper in Nordic western
Inspired by a true story about a retired 18th-century army captain turned farmer, Nikolaj Arcel’s brash drama is entertaining, if a little preposterous
The Zone of Interest review – Jonathan Glazer’s unforgettable Auschwitz drama is a brutal masterpiece
Only the constant pall of smoke, and a dread-inducing soundscape, tell of the horrors beyond the wall as the idyllic life of the commandant of the death camp and his family rolls by in Glazer’s Oscar-nominated film
American Fiction review – entertaining comedy collision of race, class and envy
This enjoyable meta-level adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure tackles black-victimhood stereotypes, showcasing Jeffrey Wright and Issa Rae as rival writers
The Tiger’s Apprentice review – comfort-food fantasy animation is all about Team Cat
Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding and Sandra Oh are among the all-star voices in this likable but generic story of a San Francisco teen and a posse of animal shapeshifters
Orion and the Dark review – Charlie Kaufman surprises with Netflix kids’ animation
The Eternal Sunshine and Being John Malkovich screenwriter has adapted a picture book for his debut family film about being afraid of the dark