The new ‘Nosferatu’ revisits the 1922 vampire horror classic; ‘Nickel Boys’ (★★★★★) plunges us into the life of a brutalised Black teenager; Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield star in ‘We Live in Time’; Asif Kapadia’s ‘2073’ splices real life and sci-fi in a warning of climate crisis and authoritarianism; ‘The Order’ is a 1980s story of American white supremacists; Robbie Williams is rendered as a chimpanzee in ‘Better Man’ — reviews by Danny Leigh
Asif Kapadia splices real life and sci-fi in a dire warning of climate crisis, authoritarianism and rampant technology
Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield star as a couple who meet, have a child and suffer tragedy — but not in that order
RaMell Ross’s boldly radical approach plunges the viewer headlong into the life of a brutalised Black teenager
Robert Eggers’ update of the 1922 vampire classic stars Bill Skarsgård, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe
The great soprano was rarely captured on film, but a biopic starring Angelina Jolie and a BBC documentary revisit her story
From Nicole Kidman’s erotic thriller to a Formula 1 epic and two takes on Frankenstein
The FT’s critics pick the cream of the crop, from film and TV to art exhibitions, theatre, dance, games, pop and classical music
An exploration of the history and legacy of this manipulative genre manages to navigate the silly and the serious
Nicholas Hoult is suitably icy as a truth-based neo-Nazi leader but Jude Law is miscast as the broken FBI man pursuing him
Michael Gracey’s film about the British pop star is one of unlikely excellence — and animal magic
Newcomer Usha Seamkhum is superbly flinty as a sick woman circled by relatives with money on their mind
Feathers McGraw is back on the rampage in a gently pointed parable about the dangers of our tech-obsessed times
Documentary traces how a working-class boy from south London turned himself into a global icon of British charm
Action films from country’s south have won audience favour while Bollywood has endured string of flops
A BFI season ranges from the bracing neo-realism of ‘Ossessione’ to the opulent period drama of ‘The Leopard’
Our festive viewing habits reflect Yuletide’s carnivalesque nature, a time when eccentric choices are celebrated
From a stirring second world war epic to a heartfelt Iranian gem, the FT’s critic picks 10 unmissable movies of the year
‘Moonlight’ director Barry Jenkins delivers a rollicking tale built on techno-witchcraft and tunes by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Success of speciality distributor Fathom Events comes as studios wrestle with Donald Trump’s election victory
Kenji Kamiyama directs a saga set two centuries before the events of Peter Jackson’s trilogy
Luca Guadagnino adapts William S Burroughs’ transgressive text about the pursuit of elusive carnal ecstasy
A young doctoral student finds himself drawn into a murky mystery in a film with echoes of Kubrick and Welles
The Israeli prime minister exudes lofty entitlement and outraged ire in a film probing the corruption charges against him
The Thai director’s ‘How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies’ has hit a nerve with its tale of fragmented family
