Stunning and visually dizzying Marvel's Doctor Strange is equal parts impressive and frustrating, a superhero franchise with potential, but unfulfilled.
Despite the efforts of Amy Adams and the effects team, Denis Villeneuve's Arrival sacrifices promising ideas in favour of easier payoffs.
Mattress Men is a terrific and ultimately quite moving film that shows how austerity eats at the soul of people who we don’t generally see on screen
Gerard Walsh's South is a slow and contemplative film with a joyous central pairing full of awkward charm and warmth that is hampered by the script.
Scarcely ever pausing for breath, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire is an energetic and spikily fun slice of grown-up entertainment.
American Honey is a dazzling and at times overwhelming piece of art from Andrea Arnold, featuring sensual cinematography.
Swiss Army Man is inspired and daring filmmaking, a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon sprung from the page and given life by two wonderful performances.
Nate Parker's The Birth of A Nation is too conventionally made and polished to earn its notoriety.
Ambitiously and lovingly crafted, and led by two riveting stars, La La Land is a musical of such lovely energy as to make Jacques Demy proud.
Stephen Gaffney's independent Irish feature Class A is a gritty and all too realistic look at the drugs trade as it stands in Ireland now.