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Our critic’s top 10 also include compelling courtroom dramas, urgent documentaries — and a donkey
Todd Field’s dread-filled film about a conductor’s experience of cancel culture meets the zeitgeist head on
The star talks from lockdown about her new 1970s equal rights TV drama and what she is binge-watching herself
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s unsettling family drama takes the top prize in a difficult year for Cannes
Female directors, historically under-represented in the Competition, delivered two films of varying quality
A conceptualist movie with multiple roles for Cate Blanchett
Chris Hemsworth swashbuckles and Jeff Goldblum is huge fun in this Marvel adventure
Cate Blanchett excels in this adaptation of Chekhov’s ‘unperformable’ first play
A biopic of Jackie Kennedy and an Argentine comedy were among the standout films
Director Terrence Malick seems lost to self-parody, but there are moments of wonder in his new film
Cate Blanchett as Carol is transfixing, alluding to oceans of emotion just beneath her cool exterior
Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford star in a drama about a scandal that rocked CBS TV
Todd Haynes’s romance combines impeccable acting from Cate Blanchett with heavenly 1950s visuals
Nigel Andrews reports on the surprise Palme d’Or recipient and wraps up the final films shown
This sequence of short films homes in on Australian lives under the shadow of addiction, illness and family breakdown
It was mostly about black and white on this year’s red carpet. But who won the FT’s Oscar for best dressed?
A moving story of success from small beginnings
Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert embrace the cheap vulgarity in Genet’s revenge fantasy
Provocative director Benedict Andrews talks about remixing classic texts
A bluesy, Woody Allen bittersweet tale about the dangers of self-delusion
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