The Leopard

Visconti's 1963 classic The Leopard makes for a fitting epitaph for screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, who died last month, writes Philip French

Tokyo Story

Philip French welcome's the DVD release of Tokyo Story, Yasujiro Ozu's supreme masterpiece

The Maid

Catalina Saavedra unleashes a star lead performance in this gripping Chilean thriller, writes Peter Bradshaw

The Leopard

Luchino Visconti's masterly historical epic, with stars Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale competing with magnificent period set designs, is restored in all its sumptuous glory, says Peter Bradshaw

The Girl Who Played With Fire

The second in the Stieg Larsson Millennium trilogy adaptations is slightly less gruesome than the opening instalment, but is let down by the sheer implausibility of its plot, says Peter Bradshaw

Mother

Another fine thriller from South Korean director Bong Joon-ho. By Peter Bradshaw

The films that time forgot

The new wave 40 years early. The soft side of Jean-Pierre Melville. Nicole Kidman makes the unmakeable. Somewhere out there is an alternative history of film – David Thomson unearths 10 lost works of genius

The Secret in Their Eyes

Oscar-winning The Stars in Their Eyes packs emotional punch and a dazzlingly virtuosic narrative, says Philip French

First sight: Anusha Rizvi

She's an Indian film director who was the darling of the festival circuit earlier this year when her black comedy, Peepli Live, did the rounds

Le Refuge

François Ozon's latest film is an an incomplete pleasure, but a pleasure nonetheless, says Cath Clarke

The Secret in Their Eyes

Peter Bradshaw on the dark, sinewy thriller that beat the favourites to win the best foreign film Oscar

Baarìa

Giuseppe "Cinema Paradiso" Tornatore's latest is a turgid, self-indulgent, treacle-smothered account of growing up in Sicily, writes Peter Bradshaw