Back to Black, review: this compassionate Amy Winehouse biopic avoids the blame game
Marisa Abela does a sterling job as the troubled star – but this overly cautious drama ducks away from saying anything truly enlightening
Marisa Abela does a sterling job as the troubled star – but this overly cautious drama ducks away from saying anything truly enlightening
Two endearing teenagers endure a gruelling journey from Senegal to Europe in Matteo Garrone’s extraordinarily rich drama
In Not Your China Doll, a rich biography by Katie Gee Salisbury, Anna May Wong emerges as a thrilling actress and Asian-American trailblazer
This sees Godzilla and Kong stomp off on adventures that turn out to be thunderously boring – plus, how on earth do you say the film’s name?
The Ex Machina director’s vision of an imploding America is neither anti-Trump nor anti-woke. Instead it’s as riveting as cinema gets
Together with a psychopathic Conor McGregor, the star makes this tale of a drifter who rescues a community from a local kingpin fly
Out just in time for the Easter break, this wonderful tale of friendship will enchant and amuse children – and leave grown-ups in tears
A sinister sisterhood in the heart of the Italian countryside uses Sweeney as the receptacle for the second coming
This commercially-desperate addition to the franchise has none of the 1984 original’s hedonistic charm –and almost no ghost-busting
A mysterious child makes sparks fly at a 1940s outback nunnery in director Warwick Thornton’s fuzzy, sleep-inducing drama
This flatly methodical Fargo-No Country for Old Men hybrid could have been fished out of the brothers’ old wastepaper basket
The returning host was hit and miss, other than one sizzling Trump gag, but he kept the spotlight on a deserving crop of winners
A young woman with an infant’s brain cuts a swathe through Europe in a madcap creation myth full of sex and substance
This dramatisation of a book which argues that racism is an aspect of the caste system will leave British viewers bewildered
Kevin Macdonald's gripping, star-studded documentary shows how the former Dior superstar unraveled – but struggles to find out why
Directed by Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda, this romcom riff on Mary Shelley’s tale is hindered by its obsession with 80s cult classics
Sandler takes on a rather more philosophical role than usual, starring as a lonely astronaut who talks to a giant eight-eyed spider
Denis Villeneuve's sequel to his 2021 sci-fi epic is a bold and visually astonishing piece of filmmaking
Sandwiched between the Baftas and Oscars and live-streamed on Netflix, this punishingly generic show felt like the ChatGPT of gong-givings
Seyfried stars as a struggling director remounting an opera in a film that is an egghead exercise – both scrambled and undercooked