Essie Davis shines as a desperate mother in Gaysorn Thavat’s touching drama.

With a career best turn from Alfre Woodard, Chinonye Chukwu’s devastating death-row drama is a nuanced and affecting look at difficult subject matter.

Judd Apatow directs the semi-autobiographical tale of Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson in this touching, melancholy dramedy.

Dakota Johnson stars as aspiring record producer and PA to Tracee Ellis Ross’s legendary R&B star in Late Night director Nisha Ganatra’s easy-going music industry crowd-pleaser.

French auteur Quentin Dupieux returns with another oddball curio, which sees Jean Dujardin’s middle-aged sad sack becoming obsessed with a deerskin jacket.

Cosmo Jarvis delivers a standout leading performance in Nick Rowland’s muscular debut feature, Irish crime thriller Calm With Horses.

Clint Eastwood tackles the story of Richard Jewell, a security guard thrust into public consciousness after the Centennial Park bombing in 1996, featuring a breakout lead role for Paul Walter Hauser.

Sam Mendes’s one-shot, first world war Oscar favourite is a technical achievement in search of a compelling story.

Counting down the top 20 films of 2019, from Lulu Wang’s The Farewell and Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, to Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story and Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade.

Ana de Armas and Daniel Craig star in Rian Johnson’s deliciously playful murder mystery thriller.