This saga of abuse takes its uphill time, but its bittersweet payoff is everything.

Resolve in the face of evil is a testimony of daring that can never be retold too often.

Everyone involved is note-perfect.

Nothing in Francis Ford Coppola's gorgeous schemozzle is content with being clear-cut.

The partner of a celebrated painter needs every shred of her spirit in this anatomising of their exacting relationship.

In dissecting a woman’s affair with her teenage stepson, film-maker Catherine Breillat’s intimate gaze is as lacerating as a scalpel.

An addictive TV show redefines reality for two lonely teens in a fantastic passage that’s impossible to define.

Mads Mikkelsen’s meaningful looks mean business in a soil-tilling drama dug from Danish history.

A shambolic household takes shape as a family in a trial by fire all the sweeter for its transformative heat.

Director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s practised unpacking of the relativity of truth is cinematic origami.