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Eternal 831 review – anime thriller stops all the clocks with a superpower

In Kenji Kamiyama’s drama, a boy discovers that he can halt time when emotionally stirred and that terrorists are exploiting the same power

Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 10 – Decision to Leave

Tang Wei is intense, intimidating, delectable as a woman being investigated over her husband’s mysterious death, in Park Chan-wook’s gorgeous Hitchcockian thriller

Nice ass: Jerzy Skolimowski on his donkey film that wowed Cannes

The veteran Polish film-maker’s latest movie stars a donkey – and is up for an Oscar. He talks about how he became a donkey whisperer to get the best performance, his career as a painter and playing a villain in The Avengers

Ximei review – Ai Weiwei produces inspiring portrait of Chinese Aids activist

Liu Ximei, who was diagnosed with HIV at 10, is shown as a dauntless campaigner whose home provides a warm haven for patients still neglected in China

Tori and Lokita review – urgent, moving drama of young migrants in peril

Joely Mbundu and Pablo Schils are remarkable as two young west African migrants in Belgium, fighting for survival in the Dardenne brothers’ latest Cannes-feted release

Brilliant and radical, Chantal Akerman deserves to top Sight and Sound’s greatest films poll

It’s high time a woman won Sight and Sound’s all-time vote, and Jeanne Dielman’s ascension to the No 1 spot is exhilarating

Fanny and Alexander review – Ingmar Bergman’s dark fusion of Shakespeare and Dickens

In a three-hour, 40th anniversary rerelease, this Swedish family saga unfolds with emotional power, wonder and brilliant acting

Out of This World review – art and misogyny collide in murderous obsession

The psychotic male with a poetic side is an old saw, but director Marc Fouchard brings some original and freshly disturbing touches to it

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? review – a Georgian World Cup winner

Alexandre Koberidze’s beguiling tale of love at first sight plays out against the backdrop of the 2018 Russian tournament

Casque d’Or review – Jacques Becker’s gripping tragic drama of Parisian lowlife

Simone Signoret stars in a dark tale of love in the belle époque underworld that is a unmissable classic with a pitilessly grim finale

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? review – existential meet-cute is a magical mystery

A couple’s rendezvous plans are turned upside down by a strange curse in Alexandre Koberidze’s exasperating yet likable fantasy-romance

Clara Sola review – an emotional awakening in Costa Rica

A new arrival changes the life of a reclusive woman in a rural community in this atmospheric drama

Clara Sola review – miraculous drama of burgeoning sexuality and divine grace

Wendy Chinchilla Araya makes a tremendous debut as a neglected woman with learning difficulties who is believed to have spiritual powers – and who falls for a handsome local boy

Rise (En Corps) review – a ballerina’s dramatic comeback from devastating injury

Marion Barbeau, a Paris Opera ballerina making her acting debut, is terrific as an injured performer who finds strength in a contemporary dance company

The Box review – Mexican teen’s search for missing father attains tragic status

Hatzín Navarrete makes an impressive debut as a boy searching for the truth about his parent in a hostile world

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