Alan Arkin, Oscar winning actor in Little Miss Sunshine, dies aged 89
The veteran US actor won multiple Academy Award and Emmy nominations for his film and TV roles during a 65-year career
La Syndicaliste review – Isabelle Huppert is fascinating in blood-boiling injustice drama
French film about real-life trade union whistleblower and rape survivor Maureen Kearney, accused of inventing her assault
Julian Sands in A Room With a View: the soulful heart of a brilliantly romantic film
Sands’ performance in the EM Forster adaptation gave a focus to dreamily tragic teenagers who aspired to a more meaningful existence
The Wicker Man review – brilliant conspiracy chiller is a one-movie genre in itself
The satirical masterpiece goes well beyond what one expects from folk horror, with Edward Woodward as the priggish cop sent to investigate a pagan island
The Driver’s Seat (AKA Identikit) review – Elizabeth Taylor captivates in bizarre 70s mystery
Taylor is both hammy and subtle as a woman on the verge of a breakdown in this preposterous but watchable 1974 drama that features an extraordinary cameo from Andy Warhol
The Taste of Things (aka The Pot-au-Feu) review – Juliette Binoche foodie romance is an invitation to drool
Binoche and Benoît Magimel serve this Belle Époque tale of meaningful meals very well, but some may wish for a pinch of salt
Killers of the Flower Moon review – Scorsese’s remarkable epic about the bloody birth of modern America
Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone star in this macabre western about serial murders among the Osage tribe in 1920s Oklahoma, which reflects the erasure of Native Americans from the US
The Zone of Interest review – Jonathan Glazer adapts Martin Amis’s chilling Holocaust drama
Focusing on the everyday domesticity of the Auschwitz commandant’s family might only reflect the horror indirectly, but the film pulls the banality of evil into pin-sharp focus
Occupied City review – Steve McQueen’s moving meditation on wartime Amsterdam
The monumental film which tracks day-to-day life in Amsterdam under Nazi rule asks hard questions of what we think about the gulf between past and present
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret review – Judy Blume’s classic pre-teen tale retold
Set in 1970, the year Blume’s novel was published, the sweet-natured story is engaging but does feel a little out of date
The Eight Mountains review – a movie with air in its lungs and love in its heart
A meditation on our capacity for love shapes this sweeping story of two friends, torn apart by family and life’s journeys but bound by something deeper
One True Loves review – sassy love triangle romcom slathered in life lessons
Mercilessly photogenic melodrama saddled with faintly patronising shtick as Phillipa Soo has to choose between new fiance and returning husband thought to be dead
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry review – Jim Broadbent hits the road
Jim Broadbent’s Harold goes on a 600-mile quest in Rachel Joyce’s sad and quirky story that is undermined by its implausibility
The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan review – one for all fans of roistering and horse-jumping
After a bromantic meet-cute with three grizzled veteran musketeers, the young fighter and his new gang journey entertainingly through palace intrigue with some excellent stunts
Much Ado review – Shakespeare adaptation offers modern British take
Some sparky performances are not enough to stop this low-budget version of Shakespeare’s romcom falling flat