First Girl I Loved (2016)

This lesbian romance looks very ‘indie’ – gauzy light streaming into the camera, flashes of Instagram expressionism – but avoids cliché.

One Punch Man

One Punch Man is a pitch perfect parody of a genre about which I am almost entirely unfamiliar.

Director Hayden J. Weal maximises the material with an impressive ability to manipulate and surprise his audience.

The Last Knight is a gloriously stupid, aggressively excessive cavalcade of explosions and robots and exploding robots.

Lynch’s artworks are presented as puzzle pieces in an extraordinary man’s life.

The main message of Hotel Coolgardie turns out to be the oppressive boredom of living in the middle of nowhere.

A War questions the moral fibre of its sympathetic characters, which makes for tough viewing.

20th Century Women is equal parts intoxicating and infuriating.

Rosalie Blum is an unashamed crowdpleaser, offering mystery, broad comedy and a buoyancy that prompts post-film recommendations.

Things to Come is grounded in the personal, but it’s also deeply invested in the philosophical and the political.