With wintry poignancy and peerless performances by De Niro, Pacino and Pesci, Martin Scorsese’s mob epic spins a potent tale of male toxicity. It’s the work of a master

Noah Baumbach’s brilliantly observed anatomy of divorce struck a chord for anyone who has been through a painful breakup

Sam Mendes escapes from the Bond franchise and heads to war in an astonishing, seat-edge thriller that sees him at the height of his powers

An instant five-star classic, Greta Gerwig’s revisionist look at the March sisters is the definition of a festive spirit-raiser

Joanna Hogg’s breakup drama is an immaculate resurrection of her life as a film student having an affair with an older man

Quentin Tarantino’s superbly realised homage to 1960s LA is saturated with impeccable detail, even as he rewrites its history

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

The Safdies deliver another abrasive endurance test powered by a skittish, career-best performance from Adam Sandler

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