A talk show gone rogue is as splashily destructive as a perfect storm.

The Crown’s Josh O’Connor plunders Italian tombs with droopy British intent as a bereft archaeologist.

A man alone by choice finds grace in the everyday.

Two teenage refugees are flayed to sinew and bone in a hellscape trek from Senegal to Sicily.

The contradictions of attraction are a sexy, cerebral ride.

A Greek island resort is a crucible of weaponised sex.

Every atrocity is a statistic to Auschwitz commandant Rudolph Höss in writer-director Jonathan Glazer’s shattering indictment of the unspeakable.

The drabness of low-rung lives is sautéed reindeer and mashed potatoes to Finnish film-maker Aki Kaurismäki.

An unnerving reimagining of a notorious relationship from director Todd Haynes is a conduit for unanswerable questions.

Sandra Hüller’s performance pulses like a wound in director Justine Triet’s vivisection of a marriage.