Stray review – exquisite dog’s eye view of Istanbul

Elizabeth Lo’s film about the street dogs of the Turkish metropolis is the perfect companion piece to Kedi, a 2016 work about its cats

Oleg review – migrant drama of despair leaves no way out

A young man from Riga falls into a sinister situation to stay in Belgium in Juris Kursietis’s bleak social-realist film

Cristi Puiu’s fourth film makes a virtue of high seriousness as guests at a country house discuss God, man, warfare and evil

A brain surgeon worries that her recent romance may be one big delusion in writer-director Lili Horvát’s seductive psychological drama

Hooligans are up to all sorts of impish mayhem in this rote action flick apparently modelled on The Raid

Even with a glorious mishmash of a pop soundtrack, it’s not obvious why Makoto Tezuka’s cult musical needs a revival

A liaison between two surgeons leads to a psychological riddle – even if director Lili Horvát can’t quite provide a satisfying answer

From Mank to Judas and the Black Messiah, all the nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards, which take place on 25 April

Ahead of the official Academy nominations, Observer film critics pick their own shortlists

There is absurdist carnage as a journalist takes bloody real-life revenge on the keyboard warriors tormenting her

This charming but opaque documentary about an Algerian migrant returning to his homeland doesn’t challenge its subject – or itself

From Nomadland to Promising Young Woman, the films up for a gong at this year’s British film awards

A young man jumps into the sea in Mazen Khaled’s film, which takes an experimental and believable journey into anguish and loss

There’s a touch of Hollywood in this dramatised account of the 50 workers who stayed at Fukushima Daiichi in an attempt to avert catastrophe

A fictional standup confronts his limits in this intriguing time capsule of 1980s Soviet history