Selfie review – droll Gallic eye on slaves to the algorithm

Online metrics are pillow talk, and digital secrets go public in this tragicomic portmanteau of five stories about our relationship with technology

Bertrand Tavernier: a flesh-and-blood lion of French cinema

The director was a prolific and legendary figure, making films in a dizzying range of genres from crime to sci-fi, satire to jazz

Almodóvar regular Javier Cámara brings a wonderful richness to his portrayal of Colombian professor and campaigner Héctor Abad Gómez

Elizabeth Lo’s film about the street dogs of the Turkish metropolis is the perfect companion piece to Kedi, a 2016 work about its cats

A young man from Riga falls into a sinister situation to stay in Belgium in Juris Kursietis’s bleak social-realist film

Cristi Puiu’s fourth film makes a virtue of high seriousness as guests at a country house discuss God, man, warfare and evil

A brain surgeon worries that her recent romance may be one big delusion in writer-director Lili Horvát’s seductive psychological drama

Hooligans are up to all sorts of impish mayhem in this rote action flick apparently modelled on The Raid

Even with a glorious mishmash of a pop soundtrack, it’s not obvious why Makoto Tezuka’s cult musical needs a revival

A liaison between two surgeons leads to a psychological riddle – even if director Lili Horvát can’t quite provide a satisfying answer

From Mank to Judas and the Black Messiah, all the nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards, which take place on 25 April

Ahead of the official Academy nominations, Observer film critics pick their own shortlists

There is absurdist carnage as a journalist takes bloody real-life revenge on the keyboard warriors tormenting her

This charming but opaque documentary about an Algerian migrant returning to his homeland doesn’t challenge its subject – or itself

From Nomadland to Promising Young Woman, the films up for a gong at this year’s British film awards