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Mira Grosin: school, football… and a movie on the side

The star of Lukas Moodysson's new film, We Are the Best!, talks to Richard Orange about landing a movie role at the age of 11

The King and the Mockingbird review – ‘A richly conceived treat’

Peter Bradshaw: This beautiful reissued French animation draws on Fritz Lang and seems to prefigure the style of Japanese anime

Crows review – Child kidnap turned into dreamy cinema

Peter Bradshaw: Dorota Kedzierzawska's strange film, in which a love-starved girl snatches another child, eschews the horror of the situation

Willow and Wind review – A unique childhood fable from Iran

Peter Bradshaw: A boy's quest to repair the school window he broke with a football is a trance-like wonder that beautifully conveys the vulnerability of childhood

The Lunchbox director on India’s new taste for realism

Ritesh Batra's unassuming debut film isn't big on action, melodrama or tunes, yet it has become a surprise box-office phenomenon, says Nosheen Iqbal

Tom at the Farm (Tom à la Ferme) review – ‘Disorientatingly strange’

The latest offering from wunderkind Xavier Dolan makes a pleasant change. It's disciplined and intriguing, writes Peter Bradshaw

The Past review – a whirlwind of warring emotions | Mark Kermode

Bérénice Bejo is outstanding in Oscar-winner Asghar Farhadi's rich study of people trapped in physical and emotional limbo, writes Mark Kermode

My Stuff review – ‘A sort-of Super Downsize Me’

Petri Luukkainen's meditation on possessions and attachment has moments of rare enlightenment, writes Mike McCahill

The Past review – ‘Its severity and cerebral force are beyond question’

A Separation director Asghar Farhadi confirms his place among cinema's true grown-ups with a pressure cooker of a relationship drama. Prepare yourself for post-film debate, writes Peter Bradshaw

Salvo review: ‘A fascinating, stylised drama’

White-knuckle action coupled with eerie, atmospheric pacing makes this film about the Sicilian mafia an intriguing watch, writes Peter Bradshaw

Salvo review – an ‘ambient thriller’ where style leads substance

What this well-crafted Sicilian mafia drama lacks in dialogue it more than makes up for in atmosphere, writes Jonathan Romney

The Robber review – improbable tale of an Austrian bank robber turned runner

Based on a true story, Benjamin Heisenberg's drama about a monomaniacal con turned marathon runner still strains credulity and patience, writes Leslie Felperin

Rome, Open City review – ‘The most precious moment of film history’

Rossellini's study of resistance, shot in war-ravaged Rome in 1945, is a masterpiece, writes Mark Kermode

Rome, Open City review – ‘Thrillingly real wartime drama’

Roberto Rossellini's Rome is dazed, disoriented and at the mercy of Nazis in this classic of neorealism, writes Peter Bradshaw

The Great Beauty wins best foreign language film Oscar

Italian study of Rome high society, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, takes Academy award

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