The Great Museum review – behind the scenes at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum
Johannes Holzhausen’s documentary is a pleasing, high-minded peek at the inner workings of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, writes Peter Bradshaw
Manakamana review – real-time Nepalese cable-car journey
This depiction of a cable-car trek to a Nepalese temple is suspended somewhere between soothing and soporific, writes Henry Barnes
The 10 best films of 2014: No 5 – Leviathan
Our countdown heats up with this booze-fuelled Russian epic, which warmed the hearts of critics at Cannes – and had officials at the Kremlin steaming
Mea Culpa review – fast-moving French policier
Good thing Fred Cavayé’s new-school French crime flick keeps the pace high, because there’s not much under the hood, writes Andrew Pulver
School of Babel review – absorbing anatomy of a multi-ethnic classroom
The pupils in this documentary about a Parisian classroom are a bit more studious than the ones in its fictional counterpart The Class, writes Andrew Pulver
Me, Myself and Mum review – stereotypical French sex education
Comedian Guillaume Gallienne plays both himself as a boy and his mother in a coming-of-age tale riddled with gender cliches
The 10 best films of 2014: No 8 – Ida
Andrew Pulver: Paweł Pawlikowski’s story about a young nun discovering the troubled past of her Jewish family is as remarkable for its subtlety as for its power
Stations of the Cross (Kreuzweg) review – brilliant, by-the-book parable
A girl becomes convinced of her sacrificial destiny in Dietrich Brüggemann’s strangely moving film, writes Peter Bradshaw
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno review – lavish samurai tale outstays welcome
The second instalment of the trilogy is padded out with superfluous characters and a plot that deprives us of swordplay, writes Mike McCahill
Jazz in Polish Cinema: Out of the Underground 1958-1967 review
Jazz helped Poland’s film-makers to deliver a hint of rebellion under communist rule in the 50s and 60s, writes John Fordham
Mohamed Husen: the black immigrant actor who carved out a career in 1930s German cinema
Sukhdev Sandhu: A new film tells the unlikely story of Mohamed Husen, the African former child soldier who emigrated to Germany and appeared alongside the biggest film stars of the Nazi era
Nuri Bilge Ceylan on Winter Sleep: ‘I don’t like comedies – I don’t like to laugh’
The Turkish director talks to Peter Bradshaw about the battles with distributors and fights with his wife in the creating of his Palme d’Or winning film
Leviathan review – Andrey Zvyagintsev’s outstanding tale of the epic and the everyday
Russia’s official entry for next year’s foreign language film Oscar is surprisingly subversive, writes Mark Kermode
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness review – idiosyncratic and moving
This portrait of Studio Ghibli is as wistful and measured as the animation giant’s best work, writes Mike McCahill
Playtime review – Jacques Tati’s late masterpiece
The satire might be a bit genteel at times, but its recurrent brilliance can’t be doubted, writes Peter Bradshaw