Ella Taylor

This slyly subversive revisionist take on an infamous Australian outlaw presents the burnished popular myth and a darker, brutal and tragicomic take alongside one another.

Set at an elite, ethnically diverse boarding school, Tayarisha Poe's first feature is "a YA gangster movie that doubles as a soulful meditation on the beauty and danger of power."

Jesse Eisenberg stars as the famous mime as he gets involved in the French Resistance during World War II. The film is an "honorable, absorbing homage to the making of a man and his art."

Writer-director Eliza Hittman's tale of a traumatized teen (Sidney Flanigan), who travels to New York for an abortion is best when it hews closest to her point-of-view.

This "delightful homage" to the world of antiquarian books in New York City features celebrity talking heads — but comes alive when it spotlights the eccentrics who are passionate about collecting.

Michael Winterbottom's sardonic tale of an amoral British businessman (Steve Coogan) who throws himself a shameless birthday party goes for the jugular.

Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson bring a wry, lived-in tenderness to this "imperfect but affecting" tale of a long-married couple facing cancer together.

In this "quietly shattering drama," a young woman (Julia Garner) learns that her new boss is a serial sexual predator; her efforts to call him out meet with indifference and hostility.

Makoto Shinkai's latest animated feature doesn't live up to his hit Your Name, with which it shares many plot similarities. But it speaks to anxieties about climate change in a captivating way.

In this unabashedly melodramatic, "intermittently gratifying" tale, two sisters in 1950s Rio de Janeiro follow their separate dreams, not knowing they live close to one another.

A plant scientist (Emily Beechum) breeds a flower that makes people happy in this "effectively creepy indie" that gets its tendrils in you.

Michael Apted's latest installment of his extended documentary/social experiment — revisiting a brace of British children every seven years — finds them ruminating on life, death and Brexit.

Marielle Heller's new film isn't Fred Rogers' story — it's the story of two damaged outsiders (Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys) finding a connection that overcomes the darkness in their childhoods.

Matt Damon and Christian Bale star in the story of Ford's attempt to create a car that will best Ferrari at Le Mans in this "rollicking" "wildly entertaining" film.

Flat characters spout banal observations about life against a lush backdrop in Ira Sachs's film, which wastes the considerable talents of its all-star cast.

Pedro Almodóvar's wonderful, mature drama sees an aging director (Antonio Banderas) ruminating on his mortality while attempting to rouse himself into making another film.

Matt Tyrnaeur's documentary posits that Cohn, a notoriously ruthless and amoral political operative, set the ground rules by which today's politics play out.

Two sisters (co-writers Hannah Pearl Utt and Jen Tullock) learn that their dead mother (Judith Light) is alive — and starring in a soap opera — in this "wise, witty and richly specific" film.

Conspiracy theories abound in this literally incredible documentary, in which an eccentric Danish journalist sets out to prove that Dag Hammarskjöld's 1961 plane crash was no accident.

In A.J. Eaton's documentary, Crosby proves a "passionate, wry, often bellicose" storyteller who "often seems to be writing his own self-lacerating obituary."