Architecton review – poetic study of humankind’s bricks-and-mortar impact on the Earth

Victor Kossakovsky’s follow-up to Gunda is a gorgeously shot reverie about our use of materials such as stone and concrete

It’s Raining Men review – Laure Calamy adultery comedy puts the heat in cheat

Call My Agent! star brings her light comic touch to a flimsy, sugary but sometimes oddly daring French romcom

Rocco and His Brothers review – Luchino Visconti’s operatically magnificent family epic

Alain Delon is coltishly beautiful in this compelling 1960s tale of homesickness, aspiration, anguish and rage

Diabel review – canine sidekick along for ride as dour war veteran biffs bad guys

A Polish ex-soldier returns to his home town and takes on local gangsters in an exhausting barrage of violence in humourless action film

How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies review – tear-jerking Oscar contender from Thailand

A dropout’s burgeoning affection for his gran makes him rethink his plan of benefiting from her fortune in a shamelessly sentimental crowd-pleaser

And the 2024 Braddies go to … Peter Bradshaw’s film picks of the year

Now the Guardian’s Top 50 countdown, as voted for by the whole film team, has announced its No 1, here are our chief critic’s personal choices, in no particular order

How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies review – sad but sweet Thai inheritance tale

The premise – a young man cosies up to his grandmother for the sake of her will – sounds cynical, but this is actually a tear-jerker with an important point

The Universal Theory review – beautiful, wigged-out German multiverse mystery

Gorgeous images and a lush score intrigue in Timm Kröger’s 60s-set noir thriller about a postgrad student’s alpine adventures

Sujo review – slow-burning Mexican drug cartel drama

A young man struggles to escape his bloody birthright in Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez’s elegant Sundance winner

Sujo review – Mexican coming-of-age drama in the shadow of a cartel killing

A story about a boy deciding whether to enter the criminal underworld or become a student that lacks enough passion and anger to really hit home

The Universal Theory review – chilly German sci-fi noir splices genres with style

Ambitious feature by Timm Kröger moves from lurid colour to stark black and white following an academic’s Alpine adventures in the metaverse

Remembering Every Night review – drifting drama follows three Tokyo women living their lives

Yui Kiyohara’s film of long shots and silences could be deeply boring or oddly fascinating depending on your point of view

All We Imagine As Light review – Cannes prize-winning Indian drama is a quiet, tender marvel

Payal Kapadia’s poetic, everyday tale of three women who work at the same hospital is all the more remarkable for being her fiction feature debut

Snow Leopard review – striking Tibetan drama about one big cat’s fate

A rare snow leopard becomes the centre of a tense family dispute in the late Pema Tseden’s final film

Memories of a Burning Body review – Costa Rican older women talk about sex and desire in deft docudrama

The vivid recollections of three women who grew up in the repressive 1950s and 60s are elegantly re-enacted in Antonella Sudasassi’s prize-winning drama