Film

The role of journalist Peter Greste in a new film about his imprisonment in Egypt challenged Richard Roxburgh to evoke the humanity in a dehumanising experience.

Oh, Canada, the latest work from Paul Schrader, brings poise to the legendary filmmaker’s recurring focus on the tension between liberation and redemption.

Bong Joon-ho’s new film, Mickey 17, a darkly comic science fiction parable, is an expensive, unwieldly misfire that brings cinema back.

In Being Maria, French director Jessica Palud revisits one of the most notorious scenes in cinema history to return the power of the gaze to the woman it violated.

Despite its flaws, Mohammad Rasoulof’s Oscar-nominated film The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a passionate and compelling indictment of authoritarian misogyny.

The prison drama Inside, the debut feature from Australian Palme d’Or winner Charles Williams, was written on the edge of his nerves.

Leonardo Van Dijl’s exacting Julie Keeps Quiet – a study of a predatory tennis coach and his star player – marks the Belgian as a filmmaker to watch.

The Oscar-nominated documentary Black Box Diaries, by Japanese journalist Shiori Itō, is a first-person account of her quest for justice.

Luca Guadagnino’s film Queer, like the William S. Burroughs novel, is a stylised howl exposing the bleak realities of addiction.

Timothée Chalamet is astonishing as Bob Dylan in the otherwise formulaic music biopic A Complete Unknown.