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How to Have Sex
Molly Manning Walker’s impressive debut stars an excellent Mia McKenna-Bruce as a teenage girl experiencing a difficult lesson in consent while on holiday in Crete. Read the full review
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Heretic
A suave and dapper Hugh Grant draws two Mormon missionaries into a psychological game of terror and manipulation. Read the full review
48
Love Lies Bleeding
Kristen Stewart stars in Rose Glass’s bodybuilding noir, a violent story of extreme sport, forbidden love and a lot of murder. Read the full review
47
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Joanna Arnow’s bleakly funny and poignant comedy about a woman drifting between a BDSM relationship and an unfulfilling corporate job.
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Emilia Pérez
Jacques Audiard’s gangster trans musical about a Mexican cartel leader who hires a lawyer to arrange his transition is carried along by its cheesy Broadway energy. Read the full review
45
Exhibiting Forgiveness
A towering performance from André Holland is at the centre of artist turned film-maker Titus Kaphar’s powerful semi-autobiographical drama about a wayward father returning home. Read the full review
44
Evil Does Not Exist
Ryu Hamaguchi’s enigmatic eco-parable about a Tokyo company buying up land near a pristine lake turns into a complex and mysterious drama. Read the full review
43
Wicked
Musical prequel has been brought to the big screen with Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande-Butera providing a blast in sugar-rush Wizard of Oz fantasy. Read the full review
42
Hollywoodgate
Fascinating insight into the Taliban’s insular world by documentary-maker Ibrahim Nash’at, revealing the fighters’ lack of purpose after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Read the full review
41
Hundreds of Beavers
Gold Rush-style silent comedy combining Chaplin, Keaton and Looney Tunes into an utterly silly movie pastiche, with an army of full-sized beavers. Read the full review
40
No Other Land
Account of an Israeli and a Palestinian’s remarkable relationship across the divide, after they met when Palestinian villages were bulldozed to make way for the Israeli military. Read the full review
39
Maria
Angelina Jolie gives a commanding turn as Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s third unconventional biopic about an incredible woman from history. Read the full review
38
The Dead Don’t Hurt
Viggo Mortensen directs, writes, composes and acts in this beautifully shot and sombre film about an old-school hero in a 19th-century frontier community fraught with tragedy. Read the full review
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Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
Elene Naveriani’s film, about a single woman in a remote Georgian village whose life is changed for ever after a near-death experience, is a gentle gem about mid-life love and loneliness. Read the full review
36
Omen (Augure)
Musician and film-maker Baloji’s film about a Belgian-Congolese man who takes his white wife to DRC to meet the family is complex, risky and bold. Read the full review
35
Close Your Eyes
Spirit of the Beehive director Víctor Erice returns after 30 years with an enigmatic tale of a disappeared actor that allows ruminations on memory, ageing and cinema itself. Read the full review
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The Settlers
Europe’s early 20th-century exploitation of Tierra del Fuego is told in an unsparingly bloody drama-thriller by first-time director Felipe Gálvez Haberle. Read the full review
33
Hoard
Luna Carmoon’s deeply strange and compelling study of loneliness and thwarted sexuality shows the ways in which childhood trauma can bloom in adult life. Read the full review
32
Good One
A weekend backpacking trip with a teenage girl, her father and his friend takes a turn in this sensitive and quietly devastating independent drama.
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Queer
Daniel Craig plays an American expat living indolently in Mexico City in a sometimes uproarious adaptation of William Burroughs’ autobiographical novel. Read the full review
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