Period and historical films
Three review – Yugoslavian trilogy of tales tracks the horrors of the second world war
Chariots of Fire review – classic British take on 1924 Paris Olympics is superbly watchable
I Saw the TV Glow review – 90s telly-addict chiller set to be future classic
Janet Planet review – mother-daughter relationship unfolds in dreamy summer haze
Fly Me to the Moon review – Scarlett Johansson delights, but 60s space-race romance fails to lift off
Fly Me to the Moon review – slinky Scarlett Johansson in cynical moon-landing conspiracy comedy
Sorcery review – orphaned girl out for revenge in unsettling Indigenous horror
Rosalie review – intriguing empowerment tale of a 19th century celebrity ‘bearded lady’
Grand Tour review – engaged couple’s sweet, strange colonial era hide-and-seek
The Boy in the Woods review – boys’ own tale of Holocaust fugitive forced to fend for himself
The Apprentice review – cartoon version of chump-in-chief Donald Trump’s early years
The Girl With the Needle review – horrific drama based on Denmark’s 1921 baby-killer case
Our Mothers review – moving drama about aftermath of unspeakable war violence
Unfrosted review – Jerry Seinfeld delivers a surreal toast to Pop-Tarts
Witch review – occultist gothic horror takes a swerve into the psychedelic
There’s Still Tomorrow review – resoundingly sentimental drama in postwar Rome
Paola Cortellesi’s directing debut, in which she also stars, depicts gruelling domestic abuse before finding its way to startling redemption
Jeanne du Barry review – Johnny Depp is a lumpen Louis XV in passionless period drama
Maïwenn directs and stars as an 18th-century French courtesan in this lacklustre tale of scandal and sexual intrigue at Versailles
Ratcatcher review – Lynne Ramsay’s haunting debut is a hallucinatory wonder
The Promised Land review – Andrzej Wajda’s anti-capitalist comic opera is still razor sharp
Unsinkable: Titanic Untold review – story of disaster told through government inquiry
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