Visually striking, intellectually challenging and emotionally harrowing.

You already know if you’ll enjoy a film where LSD-crazed leather daddies are summoned via something called the Horn Of Abraxas. A no-holds-barred ride into madness destined for a thousand midnight screenings.

It is the last great Western ever made, and it will always remain so.

A delightful blend of hand-drawn animation and CG style that'll be soul food for hopeless romantics everywhere.

A viscerally rendered plane crash gives way to an affecting story of humanity and survival. Bayona is on impressive form here.

Handsome, engrossing, frequently very funny for a literary bio drama, and ultimately deeply moving, with pitch-perfect performances from one and all.

Masterfully manipulative and bloody scary.

An amiable, amusing story of unlikely friendship, which is as aware of what makes people tick as it is of what makes tech troubling.

This arty approach may dismay hard-core horror fans, but it captures the dark grace of the original with wit and style.

Genuinely funny. A life lesson in never prejudging a man just because he's skinning a squirrel.

Very sweet, very funny, really quite touching and exquisitely handmade, by a film lover with humour and a heart, for a like-minded audience.

Time will tell if it’s worthy of being talked about in the same breath as Easy A, Clueless, Booksmart and the like, but Amy Poehler’s teen comedy is smart, funny, likeable and winningly performed. Moxie by name, moxie by nature.

Thought-provoking, intimate and brave, the outstanding performances from its leading stars and Edwards’s smart direction make this a great entry in Black British cinema.

This not being Hollywood, Michele and Filippo do not benefit from life lessons learned as exemplified in coming-of-age pap like "Now And Then." The sweet life, this ain’t.

Movie Marmite. Many will be perplexed. Donnie Darko fans should lap it up.

As before, Lee's acute observation distils humour from accuracy rather than caricature but his growth as a filmmaker is impressive.

Unfairly neglected, perfectly creepy and disturbing suburban bizarro drama.

This is - gasp! - a Hollywood movie actually daring to bare its teeth at silly American flag-waving.

A thoughtful approach to a much-covered topic, mixing prickly issues of roots and genocide with an eye for the surreal and an ear for the earthy.

Carnivorous lunar activities rarely come any more entertaining than this.

Frenetic, kinetic action meets satisfyingly soapy drama. See it before everyone tries to copy the best bits.

A thinking person’s Bad Boys, this off-kilter indie crime comedy introduces two deliriously warped lawmen to the screen. Here’s to a Cuba-invading sequel.

Charming and watchable. The three leads show their comedy potential.

You don't need to understand anything of baseball to get behind this, a chest-swelling story about second chances and flipping a finger up (even a giant foam one) to The Man.

If there are post-Harry Potter children who don’t know or care about The Wizard of Oz, they might be at sea with this story about a not-very-nice grownup in a magic land, but long-term Oz watchers will be enchanted and enthralled. There’s even a musical number, albeit an abbreviated one. Mila Kunis gets a gold star for excellence in bewitchery and Sam Raimi can settle securely behind the curtain as a mature master of illusion.

With its woozy aesthetic and dynamic, beguiling cast, Priscilla is textbook Sofia Coppola: not breaking the mould, but a sublime continuation of her sad-girl sensibilities.

A gorgeously rendered and deeply personal portrayal of a young woman’s life in the part of the world where history’s greatest conflict reached a devastating conclusion.

Still gripping after all this time.