The Favourite — a wickedly enjoyable bodice-ripperYorgos Lanthimos’s re-creation of Queen Anne’s court blows the cobwebs off costume dramaRoma — sprawling yet intimate Mexican dramaAlfonso Cuarón returns to his roots for this masterly study of everyday urban life in 1970s Mexico CityVox Lux — a discomfiting meditation on fameNatalie Portman stars as a Madonna-ish pop goddess who lets nothing derail her careerThe Sisters Brothers, Non-Fiction — French film-makers take different pathsJacques Audiard heads back to the Old West while Olivier Assayas ponders the digital futureThe Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Coens go West with Netflix anthologyThe brothers’ episodic movie is tonally uneven but hilarious in placesSuspiria — radical horror remakeDakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton star in Luca Guadagnino’s reimagining of Dario Argento’s kitsch classicMore from this SeriesThe Other Side of the Wind — a cinematic curiosityOrson Welles’s valedictory film about a film-maker struggling to finish a film has been completed at lastFirst Man — Ryan Gosling and the great unknownNeil Armstrong remains frustratingly elusive in Damien Chazelle’s biopicPeterloo — worthy but wordy telling of 1819 massacreThere is real force in Mike Leigh’s film about an infamous episode in Britain’s past — but not always nuanceA Star is Born — yet againLady Gaga has acting chops — but this is an over-familiar story
The Favourite — a wickedly enjoyable bodice-ripperYorgos Lanthimos’s re-creation of Queen Anne’s court blows the cobwebs off costume dramaRoma — sprawling yet intimate Mexican dramaAlfonso Cuarón returns to his roots for this masterly study of everyday urban life in 1970s Mexico CityVox Lux — a discomfiting meditation on fameNatalie Portman stars as a Madonna-ish pop goddess who lets nothing derail her careerThe Sisters Brothers, Non-Fiction — French film-makers take different pathsJacques Audiard heads back to the Old West while Olivier Assayas ponders the digital futureThe Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Coens go West with Netflix anthologyThe brothers’ episodic movie is tonally uneven but hilarious in placesSuspiria — radical horror remakeDakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton star in Luca Guadagnino’s reimagining of Dario Argento’s kitsch classicMore from this SeriesThe Other Side of the Wind — a cinematic curiosityOrson Welles’s valedictory film about a film-maker struggling to finish a film has been completed at lastFirst Man — Ryan Gosling and the great unknownNeil Armstrong remains frustratingly elusive in Damien Chazelle’s biopicPeterloo — worthy but wordy telling of 1819 massacreThere is real force in Mike Leigh’s film about an infamous episode in Britain’s past — but not always nuanceA Star is Born — yet againLady Gaga has acting chops — but this is an over-familiar story
