The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea review – Lynchian psychodrama in the sun
Criminal undercurrents in a sleepy Greek backwater provide the pretext for a disquieting spectacle of strangeness
Indian audiences shun spectacle with Bollywood’s first hip-hop film
Zoya Akhtar’s film Gully Boy, starring Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt, embraces the industry’s appetite for grittier stories
One Nation, One King review – bum-numbing history lesson for Marie Antoinette haters
French Revolution epic has a starry cast but the overwritten narrative and underwritten characters make it a bore
Nina review – deeply silly softcore lesbian drama
Olga Chajdas’s story of a couple seducing a surrogate is a preposterous exercise in erotic intensity
Streaming: MyFrenchFilmFestival puts auteurs at your fingertips
The annual online showcase offers the chance to see new French films months before they reach cinemas
Underdog review – sweat-soaked MMA movie succumbs to cliches
This montage-riddled clunker hits us over the head with stereotypes of masculinity and sports-drama tropes
The House by the Sea review – melancholy family drama
Veteran French director Robert Guédiguian achieves moments of beauty in an occasionally heavy-handed film
The House By the Sea review – stagey goings-on in the south of France
Siblings reunite and re-evaluate their lives and relationships in this self-regarding variation on a theme
One Cut of the Dead review – zombie films get a shot in the arm
Japanese film-maker Shin’ichirô Ueda injects new life into the undead with this lively metafictional horror show
The 12th Man review – real-life derring-do minus the thrills
This laborious depiction of a Norwegian second world war hero squeezes all the drama out of an exciting story
An Impossible Love review – brilliantly dark and tender family drama
A daughter’s life is shaped by her father’s arrogance and her mother’s humility, in Catherine Corsini’s beautiful film
Chinese arthouse film breaks box office records after viewers mistake it for romcom
A Long Day’s Journey Into Night took $38m on its opening day, but some viewers complained that marketing suggested it was a seasonal romcom, rather than a challenging drama
Royals, rogues and Rudolf Nureyev: the best films of 2019
Christian Bale plays Dick Cheney, Nicole Kidman goes undercover, Olivia Colman is Queen Anne and Timothée Chalamet gets addicted to meth
The most anticipated films of 2019: 1-10
Stories about notorious murders, palaeontologists in love and a media giant’s downfall are among the starry movies heading our way, in the final instalment of our five-part seriesLook out for our preview of cinema’s spring highlights on 2 January
The 50 best films of 2018: No 1 – Roma
Topping both our US and UK critics’ polls, this is a great piece of storytelling with inspired and surreal setpieces and electrifying sequences in the teeming streets of Mexico City