Our critic chooses his highlights, from electrifying psychological horror to Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar triumph and a joyous British coming-of-age teen drama

Jamie Foxx stars as a music teacher transported to the afterlife in Pixar’s spirit-world fable, which is a joy from beginning to end

Alfre Woodard is superlative in a lacerating drama that renders the saintly self-regard of many death-row films null and void

A tragic nightclub fire leads to a domino effect of consequences that cascade through Romanian society in Alexander Nanau’s exceptional documentary

Attraction pulses through this intense, moving and utterly devastating study of an impossible romance in 18th-century France

This fun, vibrant drama about a young girl thrust into adulthood – led by a supercharged non-professional cast – bursts from the screen with creativity and passion

Martyrdom is made thrillingly infectious in Rose Glass’s Tenet-topping psychological horror about a care nurse and her formidable patient

Kitty Green’s suffocating portrait of workplace sexual abuse shifts the spotlight away from the Harvey Weinsteins and on to the culture that enables them

David Fincher’s take on how Citizen Kane was made caused controversy but his loving tribute to the writer Herman J Mankiewicz is a visually stunning triumph

Eliza Hittman’s devastatingly spare portrait of abortion access in the US is one of the most quietly powerful films of the year