Director: David O Russell
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Virginia Madsen, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini, Elisabeth Röhm, Édgar RamÃrez, Dascha Polanko
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 124 mins
We said: This half-fictionalised biopic of "mop millionaire" Joy Mangano, starring Jennifer Lawrence in the title role, is "a giddy, confounding, recklessly brilliant fairy tale of self-empowerment, fuelled by the redemptive magic of the movies". Read the full review of Joy
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Yayan Ruhian, Rirî Furankî, Hayato Ichihara
Certificate: 18
Running time: 125 mins
We said: Cult Japanese director Takashi Miike's supernatural crime movie, in which witch doctors and demons take on a vampire mob boss, "is a tooth-rotting, mind-scrambling aspartame rush of nonsense," but, adds Robbie Collin, "its brilliance stems from the director’s flat refusal to distinguish between the sublime and the ridiculous. The martial arts battles are played for laughs, but the combat is shot from an over-the-shoulder angle that displays the actors' whip-crack athleticism to its fullest advantage." Read the full review of Yakuza Apocalypse
Credit: The Weinstein Company/Andrew Cooper
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Kurt Russell, Samuel L Jackson, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins
Certificate: 18
Running time: 187 mins
We said: "Twenty-three years after Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino has delivered his most intimate film since that auspicious debut. The Hateful Eight is a parlour-room epic, an entire nation in a single room, a film steeped in its own filminess but at the same time vital, riveting and real. Only Tarantino can do this, and he’s done it again." Read the full review of The Hateful Eight
4. The Assassin
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Starring: Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Satoshi Tsumabuki
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 120 mins
We said: This period martial arts movie from Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien, in which a seventh-century female assassin seeks to bring down a corrupt feudal lord, is "an immaculate treasure box of light, texture and movement," says Robbie Collin, "one of the most purely beautiful films I have ever seen". Read the full review of The Assassin
5. Anomalisa
Director: Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Thewlis, Tom Noonan (voices)
Certificate: 15
Running time: 90 mins
We said: Kaufman, screenwriter of Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, has made an "upsettingly brilliant", "meticulously crafted" stop-motion animation about depressed middle-aged businessman Michael Stone's fling with a stranger during a conference. Writes Robbie Collin: "The film’s ending, which takes the form of a dazzling, dust-light mini-monologue by Leigh, undercuts Michael’s plight in a way that makes you reassess everything you’ve seen up to that point. Perhaps since birth." Read the full review of Anomalisa
6. The Witch
Director: Robert Eggers
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Ellie Grainger, Lucas Dawson
Certificate: 15
Running time: 90 mins
We said: Eggers’ debut feature, about a Puritan family terrorised by religious fervour in 17th century New England, is "one of the scariest horror movies in years," writes Robbie Collin. "And not the creep-up-and-prod-you kind of scary either, but a profound, unsettling dread that gnaws at your bones, and which comes back to find you in the dark." Read the full review of The Witch
Director: Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
Starring: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Chadwick Boseman, Sebastian Stan, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Paul Rudd, Frank Grillo, Daniel Brühl
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 147 mins
We said: When the Avengers suffer an ideological split, the two factions, led by Iron Man and Captain America, go to war. "Throughout, the control of tone is pin-precise," writes Robbie Collin. "The film’s centrepiece action sequence – a six-on-six battle royale on a German airfield – feels like the lavishly enjoyable last word on a thousand ‘who would win in a fight between…’ playground arguments, while Downey and Evans’s climactic battle, though it deploys much of the same computer-generated whizz-bang, is startlingly heavy with heartbreak." Read the full review of Captain America: Civil War
SOURCE: www.telegraph.co.uk
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