Another joint entry for the UK and US in our movie countdown – Xan Brooks hails an ambitious sci-fi sequel that took the original’s tantalising loose ends and ran with them
Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey … as the list of harassment cases in Hollywood grows, can we any longer separate cinema from the morality of its makers?
After years bouncing between the UK and France – with the occasional Hollywood blockbuster for good measure – the actor’s role in Sally Potter’s film The Party was filmed in 12 days, during which the EU referendum took place. The result made her feel rootless, she says
Five critics choose their favourite film of the decade, from Charlie Kaufman’s surreal journey into John Malkovich’s mind to Baz Lurhmann’s Shakespearean tragedy with guns and Hawaiian shirts
His battles with the Chinese state made him an artist. Now a rootless exile who rarely leaves his studio in Berlin, he explains why his new documentary about the global plight of migrants will haunt him for the rest of his life
The Venice film festival has dedicated a section to cutting edge virtual-reality features, suggesting that the format may be about to take off as mass entertainment
The Lebanon director’s unflinching family tragedy, set in a surreal Israel where loss and pain are randomly distributed, offers an urgent and witty picture of futility
Mirren and Donald Sutherland head off along Route 1 for a well-constructed, but not especially original, study of a long-married couple in their golden years
The king of documentaries is back with a Netflix series – and he’s revisiting the supposed suicide of a biochemist in 1953. What emerges is a creepy trip indeed
From a script by the Coen brothers and starring Matt Damon, Clooney’s directorial effort takes aim at the suffocating hypocrisy of 50s white-bread America, but can’t quite land its punches
This adaptation of Kent Haruf’s novel is a graceful, easygoing, sincere film about a couple finding solace in each other and respite from their Edward Hopper lives
Chaos, conflict – and conga: Fanny and Alexander takes the stage