Brilliant biopics, daring documentaries and a host of chillers and thrillers – our critics pick the best from another sensational year of cinema

In a spectacular return to form, the Dardenne brothers bring empathy and dignity to ill-equipped teen mums looking for a brighter future amid drug addiction and social hardship

"Sinners," "One Battle After Another" and "Hamnet" weren’t the only movies we loved this year.

Leonardo DiCaprio is a former revolutionary searching for his daughter in Paul Thomas Anderson’s exhilaratingly audacious counterculture epic

Brilliant biopics, daring documentaries and a host of chillers and thrillers – our critics pick the best from another sensational year of cinema