The title of German director Valeria Grisebach’s Western (★★★, 12A, 121 mins) sets up certain expectations: big-sky panoramas of the

The exceptional French film Custody (★★★★, 12A, 93 mins) opens with a moment of peace and quiet: a county court

You can tell an actor is on a roll when he is cast as Christ and a merciless killer in

The rapid change the movie business is presently undergoing is such that some believed 2018 might have witnessed the Academy

Writer-director Andrey Zvyagintsev has emerged over the past decade as the agonised conscience of Putin’s Russia, uniquely attuned to the

Mention Churchill to movie execs, and they respond like his namesake nodding dog: “Oh, yes.” As the debate over national

Writer-director Eliza Hittman had a minor breakthrough in 2013 with It Felt Like Love, an authentic, confrontational drama about a

Suburbicon (★★), 15, 105 mins) entered the autumn release schedule with the hottest roster of talent around – Matt Damon

The Dutch western Brimstone (★, cert 18, 148 mins) prompts many queries – several of the “why am I watching

The American writer-director Dan Bush enjoyed cult success 10 years ago with The Signal, a clever media-studies-age fable about a

One upside of the recent Downton-isation of British cinema and television – lacing up history in pretty bows for easy

A Ghost Story (★★★, cert 12A, 92 mins) could well lay claim to being the most quietly transcendental film ever