La La Land and The Love Witch wove magic, Moonlight and Lion wrung out tears, while Get Out and Lady Macbeth got nasty. Plus, there were striking debuts, returns to form by seasoned directors and reunions for the Trainspotting rogues
April 2017
Box office analysis: UK
Shia LaBeouf's new film makes £7 at UK box office, as Beauty and the Beast holds sway
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Free Fire review – never pick a fight with an arms dealer
March 2017
Five of the best… new films
Graduation and Get Out: the best films out now in the UK
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Free Fire review – warehouse shootout is bang on target
Free Fire director Ben Wheatley: ‘I built the set in Minecraft’
Cillian Murphy: ‘It is getting absurd with the dumbing down'
September 2016
First look review
Free Fire review – Ben Wheatley's shootout comedy is firing blanks
Trailer park
Free Fire trailer: Ben Wheatley's shootout starring Brie Larson – video
April 2016
Cillian Murphy: ‘Is this it, for the rest of my days?’
He plays the violent lead in Peaky Blinders. But as he turns 40, the actor is starting to contemplate what comes next
March 2016
Ben Wheatley: ‘Financing a film as crazy as this takes good casting’
As his adaptation of JG Ballard’s 1975 sci-fi novel High-Rise is released, the director talks about his love of uncompromising films and why he reads all his reviews
October 2014
Ben Wheatley swaps a field in England for a warehouse in Boston
The Kill List and Sightseers director is to make his first US movie, a 70s-set crime thriller starring Luke Evans, Armie Hammer and Olivia Wilde
