A quagmire of cross-purposes inside a school is an unsettling lesson in the tenuousness of the structures we build to protect ourselves.

Less a passive viewing experience than a thumping run of body blows.

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.

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.

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

After quietly assembling the building blocks of a cultural displacement drawn partly from his past, writer-director Anthony Shim gets going with a wrecking ball.

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

Fact and fiction are membrane-thin in writer-director Andrew Haigh’s fantastical enactment of grief.