Shanghai Blues review – delirious screwball comedy from Hong Kong’s Spielberg

Tsui Hark’s classic tale of love and mistaken identity, with plentiful helpings of farce and wackiness, has been restored for its 40th anniversary

By the Stream review – gentle college comedy of manners from Hong Sang-soo

The Korean director applies his languid style to the tale of a college campus coping with the arrival of a famous visitor

The Tasting review – French midlife romcom takes its leads guzzling fine wines

Easygoing tale has Hortense meet Jacques while buying a bottle at his shop, but the real star is the picturesque setting of Troyes

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