Mark Kermode

Elizabeth Banks’s playfully anarchic creature-feature about a rampaging beast high on drugs is as daft as it is entertaining

Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny Slate’s gently absurdist Bafta- and Oscar-nominated animation is as profound as it is enchanting

The Canadian director’s finely balanced drama about the abuse, secrets and shame of an isolated religious community boasts wonderfully nuanced performances, yet the real action lies in its knotty central argument

A circus donkey embarks on a long, lonely journey, meeting human kindness and cruelty, in this strangely beautiful Oscar contender

Michelle Williams and Paul Dano are spot on as the budding film-maker’s parents, yet the director’s childhood memoir plays to the awards gallery rather than to his fans

Despite star wattage from Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt, ​the ​La La Land​ director’s ​overcooked portrait of a nascent Tinseltown is more hysterical than historical

A lone wildlife volunteer on an island off the coast of Cornwall is haunted by the past and the landscape in the writer-director’s spellbinding follow-up to Bait