Salaam Bombay! review – still fiercely unsentimental and throbbing with energy

The re-release of Mira Nair’s unflinching 1988 story of street children, prostitutes and drug dealers shows it has lost none of its power

Treasure City review – bizarre, oppressive and horribly brutal

Anger, confusion and despair are the keynotes of this one-night-in-a-city film that leads towards a horrendous scene of abuse

Chloé Zhao hits the road, Carey Mulligan takes her revenge and Emma Stone refashions Cruella in the pick of this year’s films

Andy Lau plays a bomb-disposal officer in this old-school action thriller with tricksy, Infernal Affairs-esque storytelling

A coach accident leads two tourists to a rural French mansion in this intriguing but confused film with implausibility at its core

A health crisis turns a series of odd vignettes into an enigmatic wonder as one man and his dog navigate a mysterious world

A lesbian couple move to the country to deal with terminal illness in this tense, sensitive film by Chilean director José Luis Torres Leiva

An aspiring dancer is devastated by survivor’s guilt after a shooting in a gay bar, in a topical film that takes on too many big issues

The dazzling Nomadland leads the way with a medieval thriller, a Ben Wheatley chiller and Emma Stone’s Cruella hot on its heels

Mélanie Laurent is excellent as a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic pod with enough oxygen to last the length of the film

Cox’s character in the revenge thriller given deep voice of Roberto Pedicini, sparking backlash over European dubbing of trans actors

Fan Bingbing stars as an emperor’s wife having her portrait painted in this artful yet inert period drama

Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning film about two married actors has intriguing parallels with the play they are performing

Christos Nikou’s black comedy about a plague of forgetfulness is intriguingly absurd but not as memorable as it thinks it is

Part of the New German Cinema boom, Helma Sanders-Brahms’ 1975 film about two actors asks if theatre still has revolutionary potential