Paul Mescal, Chris Pratt, Lee Byung-hun, Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 23rd, 2026

Claire Foy and a bird of prey star in a study of grief stifled, displaced and occasionally stuffed in a woman-sized cardboard box

Korean director remains ever the stylist but cartoonishness eclipses capitalist critique in this timely adaptation

In the Korean auteur’s new film, the Squid Game star Lee Byung-hun ends up doing what capitalism did to him

Brendan Fraser, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell and Dave Mustaine feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 16th, 2026

Palestine features in several categories, while Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi speaks about oppression in his country

One of the frankest frontmen in metal is in contemplative if occasionally irascible mood

The film’s spine is its use of the real audio recordings of the child of the title trapped in a car under Israeli fire in Gaza

Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Pierce Brosnan, Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 9th, 2026

Superheroes, prequels, sequels and myth: There’s something to suit everyone’s in cinemas next year

Sleek costumes and seasoned comedy are wasted in this sunny but saccharine film from Brett Haley

Jacob Elordi portrays a younger version of Gere’s character in a fragmented narrative exploring memory, desire and self-mythology

Kaouther Ben Hania, director of The Voice of Hind Rajab, on the moral imperative to tell this tragic story from Gaza

Steve Coogan, Éanna Hardwicke, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 2nd, 2026

Nothing much happens, yet everything is revealed, in this portrait of Hujar, at the time a little-known photographer