The story of the Sonderkommando, the "special units" of Jewish prisoners in Nazi death camps forced to assist with the exterminations of the Final Solution, has been little-told in the cinema.

If you liked the arched eyebrow of the dowager countess at Downton Abbey, you just have to get a load of this.

Director Christian Ditter has already tackled rom-coms with British film Love, Rosie, but in How to Be Single he goes from riffing on one relationship to wrangling a clutch of them, with the ensemble piece getting the better of him.

Viewed from here, where American football remains, for most of us, a curiosity, this film about a doctor who challenged the sports-entertainment industrial complex behind the game is something of a revelation.

The elderly actress said the film was "glorious". Deadpool stars Reynolds as the snarky anti-hero from Marvel Comics.

There was little about 2001's Zoolander that warranted a sequel, and yet here it is.

When Patricia Highsmith wrote The Price of Salt in 1952, its subject matter was so taboo that she needed to use a pseudonym, Claire Morgan.

Warning: If you missed the book and don't know what the room is in Room, what follows may contain more spoilers than you need.

Chris Pine and Casey Affleck play two real-life US Coast Guard sailors who saved 32 men from a sinking oil tanker off Cape Cod in the winter of 1952.

Journalists are constantly exasperated by the depiction of journalism in the movies: crusading reporters who never take notes write their own (very bad) headlines for stories based on hunches, improbable disclosures, lucky breaks and dramatic confrontatio

Other than starring in David O. Russell films, in recent years seven-time Oscar nominee and two-time winner Robert De Niro has taken to appearing in lightweight films reassuring baby boomers they're relevant, and can still party large.

Predictably and understandably, this film about one of the first known people to undergo a surgical sex change has been criticised for tweaking the historical record and, more sophisticatedly, for its heteronormative approach to a transgender story.

It's hardly surprising that stories of immigrants to the Land of the Free have such a proud cinematic history: the immigrant experience has everything - risk, longing, regret, hope, danger - that makes for great drama.

If you're looking for a sweet family film to entertain the younger kids these holidays, Oddball will do the trick.

The Big Short is equal parts goofy crime caper and cold-blooded rage against the machine that created the Global Financial Crisis.

Carey Mulligan stars in a riveting true story about the struggle for women's emancipation.

Well-matched actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy help deliver a savagely authentic Old West survival thriller

Quentin Tarantino has a new movie The Hateful Eight. As usual it doesn't adopt half measures.

The life and times of a persecuted Hollywood writer.

Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg were hilarious together when they teamed up in 2010 for cop movie spoof The Other Guys. While the set-up in Daddy's Home is different, their roles are similar.

The Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and David O. Russell show rolls back into town with family drama Joy, an offbeat and quietly entertaining yarn about the rags-to-riches true story of Joy Mangano, the inventor of the Miracle Mop, and her crazy family.

Whether or not Bryan Cranston wins the Best Actor Oscar in February, this biopic will surely prompt a stream of sanctimonious recollection in Tinseltown about Dalton Trumbo.

The hero of The Good Dinosaur, the latest offering from Pixar animations, isn't the adorable apatosaurus, Arlo, his unlikely human companion, Spot, or the red neck T-Rex cowboy voiced by Western film actor Sam Elliott.

Surmounting the not considerable obstacle that French pop music makes John Denver sound like AC/DC, this Christmas crowdpleaser breathes new life into the girl-becomes-woman genre.

Charlie brown's return to the big screen, 25 years after the last Peanuts feature, is sure to charm and delight both newcomers and fans of Charles M. Schulz's iconic comic strip.

Victoria is a remarkable achievement, a visceral experience in which the technique never overwhelms substance. Highly recommended as one of the year's best.

I am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story plays like an extended promo, washed with a score of elevator-music strings, and composed of so many talking-head snatches that it often feels like a trailer for itself.

The latest in the Star Wars saga has been put to the George Lucas test - and it passed.