Javier Ocaña

The star of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ co-writes and stars in this fierce martial arts revenge thriller

This drama based on a real family carries a profound reflection on the white tradition of 1980s middle America

Olivia Colman shines and Jessie Buckley is feisty in this agreeable but lackluster period film

French director Bertrand Bonello’s new film takes chances and has certain interesting moments. Still, it doesn’t offer the elegant and profoundly cinematographic prose of the American writer’s story

Its imposing spaceships, the haunting beat of Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack and its palace intrigues leave little room for yawning

Mexican director Lila Avilés’s gaze clings to her creatures like a barnacle, and the viewer is only a few inches away from the film’s characters

British director Andrew Haigh has crafted a painful and unrelenting, romantic and reflective, but above all, mysterious film about love: the familiar, the sentimental, the sexual

It is the songs that end up dominating, although they have to fight against slick staging in this recreation of the life of the Jamaican genius

The Italian filmmaker, who directed ‘Gomorra,’ now tackles a dramatic migration story in a movie that has already won the Silver Lion for best director at Venice and is now seeking to claim an Oscar

The French filmmaker, heir to the cinematic fantasies of Georges Méliès, is back in the director’s chair for his first feature film in eight years

The filmmaker has wanted to create his own space saga for years, and has even proposed the project to Lucasfilm. He found a willing collaborator in Netflix, who produced a film that turns out to be derivative of Akira Kurosawa and George Lucas

Without reaching excellence, everything is remarkably well-composed in Paul King’s film. Timothée Chalamet, without possessing a great voice, passes with flying colors

Director Rodrigo Moreno has made a deliberately bland, humorous thriller over 189 minutes that will either drag or grip audiences

After making its way through festivals, playwright Celine Song’s directorial debut will surely be among the Oscar nominees in a few months

Craig Gillespie tells the story of a large group of small investors who united on social networks to deliver a crushing blow to the stock market investment firms

Director Gareth Edwards’ film is a mishmash of science fiction classics and other genres that misses the mark

Based on the true story of Harry Haft, the movie stars Ben Foster as the ethically tortured Pole who survived Auschwitz by entertaining his Nazi captors in the boxing ring

Mark Cousins’s documentary is revealing and playful, funny and somber, tricky and artistic, all at once

Hlynur Pálmason’s movie was presented to wide acclaim in the ‘Un Certain Regard’ selection of the Cannes Film Festival and is filmed in unusual forms

The film matches the tone, perspective and narrative freedom of ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once,’ combining fantasy, absurdity and surrealism

‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’, the third installment of the saga about the dignified and noble stripper, has lost even the (relative) freshness of the original, structured on the classic rise, fall and redemption of a self-made human being