The Shadow Play review – money worship and gangster capitalism in China
Director Lou Ye’s intriguing but exasperating drama focuses on criminal undertakings with overblown results
God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya review – asks big questions, doesn’t answer them
Despite a fine lead performance, this promising satire about religion and society in Macedonia fails to carry through on its interesting setup
The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea review – Lynchian psychodrama in the sun
Criminal undercurrents in a sleepy Greek backwater provide the pretext for a disquieting spectacle of strangeness
Indian audiences shun spectacle with Bollywood’s first hip-hop film
Zoya Akhtar’s film Gully Boy, starring Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt, embraces the industry’s appetite for grittier stories
One Nation, One King review – bum-numbing history lesson for Marie Antoinette haters
French Revolution epic has a starry cast but the overwritten narrative and underwritten characters make it a bore
Nina review – deeply silly softcore lesbian drama
Olga Chajdas’s story of a couple seducing a surrogate is a preposterous exercise in erotic intensity
Streaming: MyFrenchFilmFestival puts auteurs at your fingertips
The annual online showcase offers the chance to see new French films months before they reach cinemas
Underdog review – sweat-soaked MMA movie succumbs to cliches
This montage-riddled clunker hits us over the head with stereotypes of masculinity and sports-drama tropes
The House by the Sea review – melancholy family drama
Veteran French director Robert Guédiguian achieves moments of beauty in an occasionally heavy-handed film
The House By the Sea review – stagey goings-on in the south of France
Siblings reunite and re-evaluate their lives and relationships in this self-regarding variation on a theme
One Cut of the Dead review – zombie films get a shot in the arm
Japanese film-maker Shin’ichirô Ueda injects new life into the undead with this lively metafictional horror show
The 12th Man review – real-life derring-do minus the thrills
This laborious depiction of a Norwegian second world war hero squeezes all the drama out of an exciting story
An Impossible Love review – brilliantly dark and tender family drama
A daughter’s life is shaped by her father’s arrogance and her mother’s humility, in Catherine Corsini’s beautiful film
Chinese arthouse film breaks box office records after viewers mistake it for romcom
A Long Day’s Journey Into Night took $38m on its opening day, but some viewers complained that marketing suggested it was a seasonal romcom, rather than a challenging drama
Royals, rogues and Rudolf Nureyev: the best films of 2019
Christian Bale plays Dick Cheney, Nicole Kidman goes undercover, Olivia Colman is Queen Anne and Timothée Chalamet gets addicted to meth