Scarlett Johannson and Adam Driver tug the heartstrings in Noah Baumbach’s brilliantly observed dissection of a marriage breakup

Though it doesn’t yield its meanings easily, Alice Rohrwacher’s miraculous and enigmatic fable revels in its protagonist’s state of grace

Greta Gerwig’s freewheeling adaptation is the definition of a festive spirit-raiser, sending the sisters on a giddy and moving march to womanhood

Joanna Hogg’s breakup drama replays, in astonishingly painful detail, her life as a student having an affair with an older man

Yorgos Lanthimos served up a gout-ridden Queen Anne, a social-climbing viper and a pistol-packing Churchill. No wonder the awards juries lapped it up

Quentin Tarantino’s masterful projection of 1960s LA may rewrite history, but is saturated with his love of the era

Lee Chang-dong’s missing-person drama was a flickering gem that forwent easy thrills for a deeply unsettling unresolvedness

The first English-language film by Claire Denis is a beguiling, audacious journey into space, with Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche along for the ride

Antonio Banderas plays a stand-in for Pedro Almodóvar in the director’s serious-minded and moving late-career meditation on mortality, memory, regret and desire