Blue Giant review – electrifying animation captures the ecstasy of live music
A sublime score from Hiromi Uehara drives this coming-of-age-anime, which brings three young jazz musicians to life with spectacular imagery
How Cord Jefferson turned a novel about race into American Fiction – the year’s buzziest comedy
The Oscar-nominated film is a biting satire of the publishing industry’s obsession with stereotypical ‘Black’ stories
All of Us Strangers review – Andrew Haigh’s drama grabs you by the heart and doesn’t let go
This deeply personal portrait of newfound love and a traumatic past, starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, is an emotionally wrenching masterpiece
The Color Purple review – off-note musical take on Alice Walker’s novel
Director Blitz Bazawule turns the Pulitzer prize-winning saga of rape and racism into a nostalgic, tonally jarring song and dance spectacle
All of Us Strangers review – Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott tremendous in a beautiful fantasy-romance
Scott, Mescal and Claire Foy shine in a drama about a screenwriter who visits his childhood home to find his parents, who were killed in a car crash, still living there
The End We Start From review – Jodie Comer shines in all too believable disaster drama
Comer plays a young woman whose baby arrives just as environmental crisis begins to break the society around her
Poor Things review – Emma Stone transfixes in Yorgos Lanthimos’s thrilling carnival of oddness
The director of The Favourite teams up again with the fearless Hollywood star in a funny, filthy and explosively inventive spin on Frankenstein
Martin Scorsese says new Jesus film aims to ‘take away the negatives’ of organised religion
Adaptation of book by Shūsaku Endō, who wrote the source novel for 2016’s Silence, is understood to be set mostly in the present day
‘No wands or broomsticks’: how TV is reinventing the modern-day witch
With 2024 is set to be the year of the witch, writers are replacing the traditional image with sassy, sexy and dark characters
The Color Purple review – a heartfelt new version supercharged by a powerhouse cast
The rough edges of Steven Spielberg’s 1985 adaptation have been softened but the evocative energy of this movie-musical’s three female leads is magical
Society of the Snow review – cannibalism in the ice in incredible real-life survival tale
JA Bayona’s powerful retelling of the 1972 rugby team’s flight that crashed in the Andes and the agonising decisions passengers took in order to stay alive
The Boys in the Boat review – George Clooney sports drama goes for patriotic boosterism
The director lays on the strident messaging in this clunky film, all about the gutsy underdogs of the US rowing team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
The Three Musketeers: Milady review – more plotting, fighting and galloping derring-do
Our heroes are out to foil a complex plot involving smirking hitwoman Milady de Winter, tearing through gonzo fight scenes and excellent stunts at a teeth-rattling pace
Shirley Anne Field: a smart and seductive key player in the British New Wave
Appearing in many of the landmark gritty dramas of the era, the actor, who has died aged 87, stood out for portraying vulnerability combined with a canny intelligence
Wonka review – Timothée Chalamet delights in fizzing Chocolate Factory prequel
Paddington director Paul King works his magic with this unashamedly sweet-toothed musical imagining the formative years of Roald Dahl’s chocolatier showman