Jonathan Romney

Living in oblivion: filmmaker Sandi Tan retraces the bizarre mystery of the bodacious indie gem she made in the '90s with friends and a mystery man

Digital poppies: Peter Jackson's controversial film project attempts to revive the voices of World War I through colorization and other effects

In seminar: Ted Fendt's second feature cedes the floor to three scholars in a faithful depiction of the life of the mind

Room service: Drew Goddard constructs a hotel partly made of ham in this exercise in retro doll-housing

Intergalactic: Claire Denis sends Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, and crewmembers on a journey into the unknown

Smash the looking-glass: Panos Cosmatos's enjoyably gnarly sub-metal freak-out very much wants you to know how strange it is

Appetite for destruction: a new documentary about the Sex Pistols and Public Image Limited frontman mostly plays the hits

Empire of the senses: Laszlo Nemes’s wholly audacious second feature sends its indefatigable protagonist into the Mitteleuropean mysteries of 1910s Budapest

Family portrait: Alfonso Cuarón re-creates the past on a grand yet intimate scale through the eyes of a Mexico City housekeeper

Shots fired: Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani orchestrate another bravura comic-strip-like exercise in turbo-charged style and retro fetish

Dossier cinema: Ricky D’Ambrose’s feature debut maps out bookish deadpan visual scheme in tracing a New York vanishing

These days: Susanna Nicchiarelli’s film brings out the warmth in a singer usually identified with wintry discontent

Cycle of life: vengeance and injustice loom over a homecoming in a passionate new film from Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias

Open to interpretation: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s legal drama about a murder blurs the line between enigmatic and perhaps merely vague

Shock of the new: a free-spirited teen girl from an immigrant Muslim family in Norway must learn how to navigate tradition.

Symphony of life: a new documentary portrays the eminent composer as an engaging man of ideas (and all the right notes)

No home movie: Debra Granik's resonant fiction feature about an off-the-grid family-unit tracks a teenage girl's growing independence from her survivalist father

Once upon a time in Indonesia: a woman takes revenge on her attackers in a precisely composed story of survival

Road songs: a Brazilian laborer traverses the countryside looking for work in this layered tale of experience

Swan song: Luchino Visconti’s sweeping portrait of an eccentric king takes in glorious, caged nobility