Further Beyond (15)
dir: Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy
Playful semi-documentary in which film-makers planning historical biopic confront immigration and mortality.
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Love & Friendship (U)
dir: Whit Stillman
This delightful director and his Last Days of Disco star Kate Beckinsale put a very funny spin on Jane Austen.
Things to Come (12A)
dir: Mia Hansen-Løve
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dir: Ken Loach
Loach’s strongest film in years – an indignant attack on the savagery of the British benefits system.
Son of Saul (15)
dir: László Nemes
Géza Röhrig is outstanding as a concentration camp prisoner clinging to his humanity.
Victoria (15)
dir: Sebastian Schipper
A Berlin clubber falls in with a gang of crooks in this daredevil thriller shot in a single, unbroken, 138-minute take.
Embrace of the Serpent (12)
dir: Ciro Guerra
Two real-life Amazon expeditions form the basis of a mischievous and visually ravishing adventure.
Florence Foster Jenkins (PG)
dir: Stephen Frears
A film about the world’s worst singer (played by Meryl Streep) could have been a joke. Tenderness abounds.
This article appears in the 13 Dec 2016 issue of the New Statesman, Christmas and New Year special 2016