“David Lowery’s grand, mad, entrancing The Green Knight feels visionary. It has vision. It is a vision. It lavishes us with image after image to dream about for days afterwards.”

“All the actors are excellent, including the less starry ensemble cast of older care home residents. This is filmmaking for television at its best: a huge subject, made with supreme watchability, for anyone in the UK to watch for free.”

“If queerness has been reclaimed in a blaze of wholesome pride and positivity and good vibes only, great — but a film like The Servant reminds us of the delicious possibilities of queerness as subversive and sinful.“

“Throughout its bustling, surprisingly joke-stacked yet frequently melancholic 89 minutes, Yellow Cat pulls off the rare, deft tonal trick of whimsy without tweeness.”

“In his best, most cleverly cast role in eons, Jude Law’s nervy, self-aware performance gestures at the kind of soulful void you might just be born with.”

“Pig stars a grizzled and melancholy Nicolas Cage as Robin Feld, a man who has run away from both success and grief in urban Portland, preferring to live in tune with nature’s slow rhythms, hunting for truffles in the Oregon forests with his beautiful pig.”

“Directed with empathy and precision by Maria Schrader, I’m Your Man is a witty and moving look at human relationships, through the illuminating framework of a non-human relationship. Dan Stevens is perfectly cast as Tom the romantic robot.”

“This is storytelling about storytelling, openly unreliable but told with conviction, and now filtered through a filmmaker’s questioning gaze.”

“This is joyful, ticklish entertainment born of strained times, and fit for them, even decades later.”

“Watching Summer of Soul, you will feel like you are at one of the greatest festivals ever. After a period of time which has been tough for live events, this couldn’t feel like more of a tonic..”

“It plays as lithe, sexy entertainment, probing matters of the mind without exhausting the brain.”

“In Italian star Luca Marinelli, he’s cast a true-blue matinee idol as the tortured hero: In an extraordinary performance that matches brute physicality to soulful interior yearning, he carries the film on square shoulders.”

“Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round is a funny and thoughtful piece of cinema about a group of schoolteachers who decide to experiment with the premise that life would be better if we were always very slightly drunk. Just first-drink-drunk, mind you. A little buzzed; not hammered.”

“Magdelena Kolesnik is perfectly cast - this is somebody you want to watch; there's something magnetic about her, however banal the activity she's engaged in might be. Whether she's making a protein shake, lifting weights or arriving at a red carpet event, she has true presence.”

“Mandabi swaggers with a keen awareness of street-level economy and survival, hard on the game and wryly empathetic toward the players.”

“A sort of gaslight thriller in which the mind is both predator and prey, as it keeps short-cutting and short-circuiting, going directly to jail without passing go.”

The perfect summer popcorn movie, not in the sense that you need to check your brain at the door, but this is a movie about sensation, not inner contemplation, and it’s a bracing, entertaining example of the form.

“It's of a piece with Kelly Reichardt’s other films about economic marginalisation and stray social kindness in the isolated Pacific Northwest, but with its own buttery warmth.”

“A spacious, restless American road movie that at once feels indebted to just about every landmark in that essential genre — from The Grapes of Wrath to Easy Rider — while forging its own untravelled route.”

“There’s been a lot of chat over the last decade or so about the Golden Age of Television. Much of it doesn’t live up to the hype, but now, adapted from Colson Whitehead’s masterful novel, we have The Underground Railroad, a series where the hype will instead struggle to live up to the show.”