Dev Patel goes on an extraordinary quest in sensationally beautiful film adaptation inspired by a 14th-century poem

Céline Sciamma’s beautiful fairytale about a girl who meets her mother as a child in the woods is an artistic masterstroke

A tender, meditative drama that marks Ryusuke Hamaguchi a new master of Japanese cinema

Fully deserving of her Oscar, Frances McDormand is on career-defining form in Chloé Zhao’s soulful docu-fiction on America’s dispossessed

The missing link between multiplex and arthouse, Denis Villeneuve’s sandy sci-fi opus is dense and moody but also thoroughly immersive and often sublime

Steven Spielberg’s refreshing new take on the classic musical was a jubilantly sugary delight that whisked you back to the 50s

An eerie, unsettling drama-thriller from director Andreas Fontana sees a Swiss banker navigate Argentina’s dirty war

Olivia Colman is mesmerising in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s delicious adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel

Joel Coen’s icy, black-and-white world of violence and pain is a triumph, with Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand at their peak