All hail the return of Feathers McGraw, a villain of silent malevolence equal to Hannibal Lecter

It’s not a gimmick to have the former Take That member embodied by a ‘performing monkey’ in his new movie – and this film doesn’t shy away from the star’s trauma, addictions or penchant for self-sabotage

The Oscar-winner behind ‘Moonlight’ and ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ can barely be found in this dreary and anonymous bit of franchise mining

Luca Guadagnino follows up his triumphant tennis drama ‘Challengers’ with another tale of seduction and desire

Aaron Taylor-Johnson (shoeless and feral) and Russell Crowe (tiny scarf) scrape the barrel of comic book adaptations in this strange, sloppy and long-delayed mess

There’s something a touch too uncrumpled about the ‘Dune’ star here, in a movie that lacks the required bite

Every possible franchise callback seems jammed into this anime film, which was fast-tracked into production to prevent studio New Line Cinema from losing the rights to JRR Tolkien’s work

When it comes to cinema, 2024 was a year of toilets, tennis and trash heaps; sand, sadness and Saoirses. From ‘Poor Things’ to ‘Dune: Part Two’, Clarisse Loughrey has selected the greatest movies from the last 12 months

This adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s magical realist bestseller is toothless and emotionally pat, and bears all the insight of a motivational poster

A magnificent Lily-Rose Depp is the convulsing, hysteric target of Bill Skarsgård’s vampire, in this star-studded adaptation co-starring Nicholas Hoult, Emma Corrin and Willem Dafoe

Disney sequel may have conquered the box office, but it still feels like a cut-together version of the TV series it was intended to be

Karla Sofía Gascón could make history as the first openly transgender Best Actress Oscar nominee – but you can’t help but wish this Netflix musical-crime-drama was better than it is

Ralph Fiennes is a vaping cardinal tasked with electing a new pope, in a film that plays as a conspiracy thriller – if only it interrogated its own ideas, though

Payal Kapadia’s Mumbai-set drama – which became the first Indian film to win the Grand Prix award at Cannes – revolves around three lonely women who find one another in an isolating metropolis

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande showcase phenomenal vocal ability in this adaptation of the blockbuster musical, but they’re let down by a film that is aggressively overlit and shot like a TV advert