Brilliant biopics, daring documentaries and a host of chillers and thrillers – our critics pick the best from another sensational year of cinema
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Ethan Hawke plays with campy brilliance and criminal combover the lyricist Lorenz Hart as he spirals into vinegary jilted despair after his split from Richard Rodgers in this latest collaboration with Richard Linklater. Read the full review.
Teen romance and paranoid surveillance collide to dysfunctional effect in Neo Sora’s beguiling debut feature set in an oppressive near-future Japan. Read the full review.
