Damon Wise

A dazzling and exquisitely original riddle as told by an enigma, featuring a superb, multi-layered performance by Laura Dern.

The oddest thing of all about The Wolf Of Wall Street is also the most unusual for a Scorsese film: it is incredibly, incredibly funny.

A charming road movie that develops into a full-blown study of life and roots, offering a beautiful insight into the way families migrate and change.

An often brilliant '50s-throwback character drama that never feels nostalgic, with terrific central performances and a luminous, unforgettable visual beauty.

Beautiful, funny, timely and tender, this is the American arthouse movie of the year.

Tight as a drum, glamorous and exquisitely funny, this one should earn them (Coens) enough cash to make five more offbeat minor masterpieces like "The Man Who Wasn't There" -- and the Coens deserve that as much as we do.

A compelling, adult period thriller, with an Oscar-assured performance from Angelina Jolie.

This is not a film about narrative but loneliness and life on the road, which it captures with a mysterious brilliance.

Experimental and uncompromising, Winding Refn and Gosling’s Drive follow-up is a tripped-out riff on the crime family movie in which The Grifters — literally — go to hell.

Tense, kinetic, intelligent and real – as if Paul Greengrass had remade Vera Drake.

A beautifully rendered, long, drawn-out but ultimately very satisfying story of betrayal and revenge in an uneasy setting of wartime paranoia.

Forget the sci-fi trimmings and sentimental pay-off — this is a gleefully subversive character study of a charming but unapologetic rogue.

A surprisingly fun, effervescent against-the-odds drama that offers an upbeat moral without the usual punishing survival-story clichés. Not for the faint-hearted, mind.

A slick, fun film that has by no means sacrificed the fast action beats of the first three.

Cahill's second feature film is another smart, inventive and engaging offering.

A bulked-up James McAvoy dominates the screen in this razor-sharp Glasgow smile of a black comedy, packed with aberrant sex, hard drugs and maximum David Soul.

A visceral, artful horror about childbirth and trauma released in the UK just in time for Mother’s Day.

A brutal, immersive prison survival story with a breakout performance by British actor Jack O’Connell.

A stately, rich and moving Italian melodrama in the spirit of Visconti.

A rich, understated character drama that gleefully exposes the petty playground politics at the centre of one of the internet-era's most bitter court cases.

Fans of David Gordon Green, you may well leave feeling confused. Fans of daft laughs and James Franco, you're in for one of the funniest comedies of the year.

A splendid study of the forces and passions behind the world’s biggest fashion magazine.

George Clooney dazzles and Jeff Bridges shines in a scattershot but often hilarious military farce.

Coppola’s most traditional film to date is a heightened, darkly comic, sexually tense drama that flips the male gaze, to show what happens when a man, for once, gets caught in the crosshairs of desire.

Neatly balances a folkloric coming-of-age tale with violent action thrills.

Dreams of rock stardom become a warped reality in this barking-mad but affecting comedy about the side-effects of being a non-conformist genius.

A refreshingly low-key treatment of teenage trauma, with a lovely star performance and an unforgettable approach to orthodontics.

The acting isn't perfect (which is perhaps understandable under the circumstances), and the film's dream states sometimes try too hard, but Escape From Tomorrow has an otherworldly atmosphere that both hooks and engages.