The Tragedy of Macbeth review – Denzel Washington delivers a noirish nightmare
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand hit top form in Joel Coen’s austere reimagining of Shakespeare’s Scottish bloodbath
Untrained blind student lands starring role in Netflix second world war epic
Disability rights groups applaud casting of Aria Mia Loberti in All the Light We Cannot See
The Humans review – Thanksgiving family drama turns apocalyptic
An eerie set and creepy camerawork ramp up the paranoia in Stephen Karam’s supremely effective adaptation of his play
Gulliver Returns review – warp speed Lilliput in maddening take on Swift’s classic
A kids’ version of the 18th-century satire could have been ripe for laughs – but this is subpar knockabout stuff
The Lost Daughter review – Olivia Colman shines in Elena Ferrante missing-kid drama
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s stylish directorial debut, adapted from Ferrante’s novel, is led by a central performance of real star quality
The Tender Bar review – George Clooney’s pain-free coming-of-age tale is a gritless oyster
This adaptation of JR Moehringer’s memoirs, directed by Clooney, is strikingly empty of plausible emotion
Clifford the Big Red Dog review – lovable scarlet hound takes on the tech bros
As the film relocates the action to NYC, Emily Elizabeth and co try to keep Clifford out of the hands of a nefarious company
The 50 best films of 2021 in the UK, No 9: The Lost Daughter
Olivia Colman is mesmerising in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s delicious adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel
Christmas in Genovia: what exactly does Hollywood think Europe is?
Netflix and Disney set their festive films in a made-up mishmash of France, Switzerland, Romania and everything in between. Is real Europe so hard to love?
The 50 best films of 2021 in the US, No 10: The Lost Daughter
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut turns the Elena Ferrante novel into a tense psychodrama with a standout performance from Olivia Colman
The Unforgivable review – Sandra Bullock does something terrible in ITV drama remake
Bullock plays a woman restarting life after 20 years behind bars for killing a police officer, in this compressed and contrived adaptation of Sally Wainwright’s miniseries Unforgiven
A Boy Called Christmas review – charming quest gets its Claus in all the family
Adventure, elves and home truths mingle in this big-hearted movie based on a Matt Haig children’s book
House of Gucci review – Lady Gaga murders in style in true-crime fashion house drama
Ridley Scott’s pantomimey soap entertainingly tracks fractures in the fashion world as Patrizia Reggiano plots to kill her ex, Maurizio Gucci
What connects Drive My Car to Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood?
From Haruki Murakami to Paul Thomas Anderson via The Big Sleep, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s latest film inspires a trip down the rabbit hole
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone review – 20 years on, it’s a nostalgic spectacular
The first film in the franchise is re-released into a very different world – but it’s as entertaining and exhilarating as ever