Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point: Altmanesque seasonal comedy is a wistful riot of chatter and foods
Tyler Taormina’s Cannes contender is a trippy Yuletide vibe
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat: A fleet-footed chronicle that never lets up
Johan Grimonprez’s propulsive account of jazz, colonialism, and the murder of Patrice Lumumba
Four new films to see this week
Saoirse Ronan in in elaborate but conventional WWII drama Blitz, plus superior family film Paddington in Peru, static adaptation of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, and peculiar ‘Legoised’ Pharrell Williams doc Piece by Piece
The Problem with People star Paul Reiser: ‘We’d sit out with our Guinness, chatting with people. We don’t have that in New York’
The comedian’s return to the ‘motherland’ was a big part of making his new comedy. ‘I’ve always been drawn to Ireland. The beauty and the greenness and the underlying melancholy’
Blitz review: Saoirse Ronan has little to work with in Steve McQueen’s absorbing but crowded war-time drama
Steve McQueen’s extensively researched script alights on racism and looting, but at heart is a boy’s own adventure
Paddington in Peru review: Fine lessons wrapped up in fun and fur
This third Paddington instalment can’t live up to its predecessors, but it’s still vastly superior to most G-rated films
Four new films to see this week
Cillian Murphy in Small Things Like These and Hugh Grant in Heretic, plus Anora and Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Anora director Sean Baker: ‘What Mikey Madison did was so impressive. She shadowed lapdancers. She spent time in the club’
The US director used to be one of indie cinema’s best-kept secrets. Now his funny, sexy, action-packed new film is frontrunner for the best-picture Oscar
Small Things Like These: Cillian Murphy’s performance is fiercely internalised in a film emblematic of a changing Ireland
Tim Mielant’s memorable film is quietly emblematic of a changing Ireland
Heretic review: Hugh Grant has a ball tormenting young Mormon doorsteppers in this gleeful horror thriller
Formerly foppish actor menaces in claustrophobic nailbiter from Oscar-nominated writers
Julianne Moore: ‘When a friend really needs to unburden themselves, what are they asking you to do?’
The Oscar winner stars in The Room Next Door, a euthanasia drama that is Pedro Almodóvar’s first feature in English. It’s an ideal film for her to appear in
Four new films to see this week
Bold trans drama/musical Emilia Pérez and Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut The Room Next Door. Plus a lyrical Senegaelse documentary and an avant-garde depiction of an avant-garde painter
The Room Next Door review: Almodóvar’s English-language debut is stuffed with good performances but sounds off-key
There are things to admire in Pedro Almodóvar's new film but this is a lesser offering from a great director
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things review: A lovingly curated chronicle of the artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Director Mark Cousins mostly lets the painting do the talking, lingering admiringly over the Scottish artist’s canvases
Karla Sofía Gascón, star of the Oscar-tipped Emilia Pérez: ‘I put my entire life and soul into creating this character’
If the Spanish star gets an Academy Award nomination for her role in Jacques Audiard’s film, she’ll be the first openly trans performer to do so