Sensible and safe were never on this menu.

Steve Coogan wears despondency like a favourite tweed jacket but the batty little bird is the star of every scene.

Its calculated incoherence doesn’t bode well for emotive impact but at least keeps viewers on their artistic toes.

Wizard of misery Ralph Fiennes goes to town on melancholia.

Thanks to Florence Pugh, this weepie has teeth.

The equivalent of a sofa that swallows you whole.

This saga of abuse takes its uphill time, but its bittersweet payoff is everything.

Resolve in the face of evil is a testimony of daring that can never be retold too often.

Nothing in Francis Ford Coppola's gorgeous schemozzle is content with being clear-cut.

The partner of a celebrated painter needs every shred of her spirit in this anatomising of their exacting relationship.