The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die review – gripping spin-off from Netflix show
There’s a ton of plot packed into this standalone movie derived from the TV series, but the deluge of detail gets steadily more absorbing
The Super Mario Bros Movie review – wackily eccentric gamer guys fall flat on screen
The second film adaptation of the phenomenally successful video game is a disappointment to rival the first
The Portable Door review – Harry Potter-ish YA fantasy carried by hardworking cast
Jeffrey Walker’s adaptation of the young-adult fantasy novel retains its edge thanks to its performances, but gets stuck on the whole door thing
The Night of the 12th review – gripping true-crime drama breaks with convention
A young woman is murdered in this unnerving, fictionalised version of a real case that haunts the police officers unable to solve it
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman review – Murakami’s surreal tales around a Tokyo earthquake
The seductively quirky sad-serious tone of the author is evident as a constellation of characters try and save the city – including a lost cat and a giant talkative frog
The Magician’s Elephant review – sweet kids’ novel with untameable pachyderm
An orphan must perform three impossible tasks in order to find his lost sister in an earnest animation made watchable by a brilliant turn from Aasif Mandvi
The Age of Innocence review – Scorsese’s brilliant tragedy of New York society manners
Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer are powerfully matched as guilty lovers in an Edith Wharton adaptation that bears comparison with Hollywood’s golden age classics
Marlowe review – worldweary Liam Neeson makes for low-energy private eye
Raymond Chandler’s gumshoe hero is resurrected in this period adaptation of a novel by John Banville – a film that looks good but lacks a spark
All Quiet on the Western Front wins best international feature film Oscar
German-language war epic triumphs in the category for non-English language films
Orlando review – Tilda Swinton is magnetic in Sally Potter’s swoony reverie
Potter’s 1992 adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s book remains trance-inducingly strange, stuffed full of style and stars
The Three Musketeers review – stripped-back stab at classic tries for fresh approach
Low-budget take on the evergreen tale already feels overshadowed by the grand French retelling due next door
January review – Pinteresque winter’s tale in wolf-filled Bulgarian badlands
Andrey Paounov’s opaque but arresting feature turns on mysterious disappearances and wolfish arrivals in a deep dark forest
Will All Quiet on the Western Front really conquer all at the Baftas?
The German-language film has 14 nominations, and great resonance with the Ukraine war, but I suspect a good number of the gongs will go elsewhere
Baftas 2023: the full list of nominations
All the films and actors up for awards at the 76th edition of the British Academy film awards
That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond review – high-spirited anime
This playful tale about an ogre samurai, a poisoned queen and a demonic pool of talking slime has a lot of confusing lore for the uninitiated to catch up on