Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood is Tarantino’s best and bravest movie since Pulp FictionLeonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star in a film that somehow transcends charges of tastelessnessThe Last Tree — hypnotic work of a natural-born film-makerShola Amoo creates images of poetic power in his part-autobiographical tale of growing upFor Sama — a harrowing document of the Syrian warDedicated to her daughter, Waad al-Kateab’s film is a ghostly diary of five years of carnageThe Irishman — a Hoffa you can’t refuse from Scorsese, De Niro and PacinoReturn to the territory of Goodfellas and Casino is an epic and profound dance of good, evil and deathSo Long, My Son is an intricately tragic drama set in China’s one-child eraWang Xiaoshuai’s wonderfully acted film is an epic of love and lossMonos — a bewitching tale of animalism unleashedDeath and violence are only ever a trigger-itch away in Alejandro Landes’s prize-winning tale of teenage soldiersMore from this SeriesThe Souvenir — Joanna Hogg’s story of class and creativity blurs fiction and real lifeHonor Swinton Byrne plays a film-maker eager to capture working-class lifeBorder — a fabulously weird Swedish thriller with remarkable special effectsThis macabre story occupies a no-man’s-land between genres and gendersThe Chambermaid is a fabulous piece of Mexican cinemaDirector Lila Avilés tells a story of love and longing in the life of a hotel workerBooksmart — Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever star in a terrific comedy about teenage growing painsOlivia Wilde’s film gives us ‘human’ as well as ‘humorous’
Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood is Tarantino’s best and bravest movie since Pulp FictionLeonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star in a film that somehow transcends charges of tastelessnessThe Last Tree — hypnotic work of a natural-born film-makerShola Amoo creates images of poetic power in his part-autobiographical tale of growing upFor Sama — a harrowing document of the Syrian warDedicated to her daughter, Waad al-Kateab’s film is a ghostly diary of five years of carnageThe Irishman — a Hoffa you can’t refuse from Scorsese, De Niro and PacinoReturn to the territory of Goodfellas and Casino is an epic and profound dance of good, evil and deathSo Long, My Son is an intricately tragic drama set in China’s one-child eraWang Xiaoshuai’s wonderfully acted film is an epic of love and lossMonos — a bewitching tale of animalism unleashedDeath and violence are only ever a trigger-itch away in Alejandro Landes’s prize-winning tale of teenage soldiersMore from this SeriesThe Souvenir — Joanna Hogg’s story of class and creativity blurs fiction and real lifeHonor Swinton Byrne plays a film-maker eager to capture working-class lifeBorder — a fabulously weird Swedish thriller with remarkable special effectsThis macabre story occupies a no-man’s-land between genres and gendersThe Chambermaid is a fabulous piece of Mexican cinemaDirector Lila Avilés tells a story of love and longing in the life of a hotel workerBooksmart — Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever star in a terrific comedy about teenage growing painsOlivia Wilde’s film gives us ‘human’ as well as ‘humorous’
