The Son of Joseph review – arch family drama
The story of a teenager’s quest to find his father is marred by laboured performances
The Son of Joseph review – a droll teen drama with hints of Wes Anderson
Eugène Green’s The Portuguese Nun was a gentle comic gem and his new film about a lonely boy is lovable in exactly the same way
The 50 best films of 2016 in the UK: No 2 Son of Saul
As our countdown continues, Andrew Pulver looks back on a harrowing Holocaust drama from Hungarian director László Nemes
The Ardennes review – a top new talent
Robin Pront’s debut feature about a family of criminals in Belgium is full of bold storytelling and striking visuals
The Black Hen review – war invades bucolic calm in Nepalese war drama
Maoist guerrillas inflict brutal violence on a village in this engaging debut, marked by dream sequences reminiscent of Buñuel
The Ardennes review – disappointing Belgian crime drama
This tale of familial crime and punishment starts promisingly, but lurches off in various unconvincing directions and badly loses its way
The Unknown Girl review – a rare misfire from the Dardenne brothers
A new edit of the Belgian auteurs’ oddball detective story can’t help its fundamentally baffling tone and form
The Dreamed Ones review – a poetic postwar love affair revisited
Two young actors become involved with Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann’s letters in this intriguing study of a famous relationship
Heritage of Love review – wretched, retchworthy Russian romance
An insufferable love story set in St Petersburg pre-1917 and Paris today, this regressive, saccharine film may have made serious rubles, but it has no merit
From The Great Escape to Sholay: what makes a film a national favourite?
Whether they tackle war, Soviet monotony or working-class suffering, the movies that countries take to their collective hearts tend to transcend age and class. We run through nine local treasures – and a few that fall just short
Creepy review – gripping study of urban isolation, with goosepimples
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s unnerving, virtuosic horror movie is amazingly attuned to ambience and emotional textures
The Wailing review – Korean horror flick takes fear to the brink of an abyss
Korean director Na Hong-jin delivers a supreme evocation of evil in this intense rural-horror
United States of Love review – a personal account of history
The fall of communism in Poland is retold through the eyes of four women struggling to find their place in the new world order
I, Olga review – an alienating look back in anger
A disjointed character study in stark monochrome makes for a tough but rewarding viewer experience
Divines; Ghostbusters; The BFG; Star Trek: Beyond and more – review
Houda Benyamina adds a thrilling feminist twist to the ghetto life genre with the direct-to-Netflix Divines