Best New Films
The Raid
Gareth Evans' deliriously violent Indonesian martial arts flick is the most exciting action movie – and one of the best cinematic spectacles – of the last decade
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp
Powell and Pressburger's sweeping drama is among the greatest achievements of any British filmmakers
She Monkeys
A startling, subtly Sapphic psychodrama based around the dynamics of a fiercely competitive female sport
Faust
Alexandr Sokurov’s delirious and jovially grotesque take on Goethe’s 'Faust' is a journey you’ll want to take more than once
Two Years At Sea
Ben Rivers' stunning portrait of life in the wilderness is a remarkably lyrical and ideologically cohesive doc-fiction hybrid
Beauty And The Beast 3D
This 3D retro-fit of Disney's retelling of the eighteenth-century French fairy tale is pure cinematic joy
Monsieur Lazhar
Touching but never sentimental, Lazhar is a sensitive, hopeful treaty on grief and innocence lost
Le Quai Des Brumes
Marcel Carné's visually stunning film is restored to its former glory in time for the BFI's Jean Gabin season
Lawrence Of Belgravia
Paul Kelly fashions a film which balances cool empathy with a brutal honesty about the various shortcomings of his tragic subject
Damsels In Distress
Mumblecore empress Greta Gerwig dazzles in Whit Stillman’s first film in 13 years
Breathing
A startling and incisive teen morality drama from Austrian actor-turned-director Karl Markovics
