The crucial drawcard of director Steven Soderbergh’s cat-mouse corker is the full-steam rapport between Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel.

Delusion and greed implode with a rollout of bangs when hedonistic fun and games go south.

The laugh-out-loud moments are deep-rooted in disturbing home truths.

A separated couple navigate the unknown in a drily lived-in pas de deux.

Ethan Hawke takes ownership of every angle in director Richard Linklater’s deconstruction of a drowning man.

Timothée Chalamet gives everything he’s got to a master class in self-belief.

Director Richard Linklater wraps the revolutionary birth of French New Wave cinema in a lustrous aura of nostalgia.

Channing Tatum charms his socks off in a frankly incredible story of crime and (belated) punishment.

Like a mystery gift, the calibrated screenplay unwraps itself with glimmers of absurdist humour.

Daffy and affecting can easily misfire as a mix but when they do come together, the marriage of opposites is magic.