MARIA DUARTE and MICHAL BONCZA review Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day, Familiar Touch, Nino, and Toy Story 5

MARIA DUARTE defends a solid, late-career Spielberg conspiracy flick that calls for empathy in a hostile world

MARIA DUARTE recommends a truly immersive crime thriller that explores the consequences of creative paralysis

MARIA DUARTE relishes the outrageous true story of two working-class lads from Dundee who conned the music industry

MARIA DUARTE refuses to disclose the twist by which a conventional rom-com is undone by a universal US malaise

MARIA DUARTE recommends an extraordinary film that explores an absent father’s attempt to make up to his sons

MARIA DUARTE recommends a surreal and brilliant take on corporate lay-offs and their consequences

MARIA DUARTE recommends that this dramatic reconstruction of one instance of the Israeli killings in Gaza be seen as widely as possible

MARIA DUARTE recommends a British boxing biopic about the stormy relationship between Nazeem Hamed and his trainer Brendan Ingle

MARIA DUARTE picks the best and worst of a crowded year of films

MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama

MARIA DUARTE recommends an intimate portrait of Jacinda Ardern, only the second prime minister to give birth while holding office