Sight and Sound 2016. All the films reviewed in Volume 26.

Linguist Louise Banks leads a team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors.

While on a journey of physical and spiritual healing, a brilliant neurosurgeon is drawn into the world of the mystic arts.

Poland, 1990. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it's time to change their lives, and fulfill their desires.

As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities, and the body count starts to rise.

An All-American college star and his beauty queen wife watch their seemingly perfect life fall apart as their daughter joins the turmoil of '60s America.

Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes. Seph and Alex take turns driving. Dan is in the glove compartment, in tupperware, decreasing in volume as the trip progresses.

A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago, Illinois.

Ex-detective Takakura and wife Yasuko face danger as their sinister neighbor Nishino is linked to disappearances and manipulates Yasuko. Themes of trust, trauma, and hidden darkness unfold in this psychological thriller of suburban menace.

THE DARKEST UNIVERSE is BAFTA-nominated directors Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley's surreal and hilarious follow-up to the critically acclaimed BLACK POND. Described by Sharpe and Kingsley as 'a romantic comedy set in space, or - to be more specific - planet Earth', the film follows world-weary banker Zac on his search for his eccentric sister, Alice, who goes missing while on a narrowboat trip with her new boyfriend. Poignant, funny and thought-provoking in equal measure, The Darkest Universe is an otherworldly and truly original gem of a movie from two of the UK's freshest young directors. the film's ensemble cast includes Joe Thomas and Simon Bird (THE INBETWEENERS) and an array of Britain's brightest comic talents.

A crew of ex-cons are hired by a Cleveland mafioso to kidnap the baby of a rival mobster.

Based on the almost 20-year correspondence between the poet Ingeborg Bachmann and the poet Paul Celan.

High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother.

The life and times of the parents of the hailed British graphic novelist Raymond Briggs.

A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.

An in-depth look at legendary punk band The Stooges.

A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life.

Nectar from a magic flower allows three girls to live as boys for a while.

Three people, three extraordinary stories. All lived out within a hundred London streets.

In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.

Robert Langdon must stop a madman from unleashing a virus that could kill half of the population.

1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.

An exploration of active volcanoes around the world.

Based on the true life of Olga Hepnarová, a young Czech woman who became a rampage killer in 1973.

Jack Reacher must uncover the truth behind a major government conspiracy in order to clear his name while on the run as a fugitive from the law.

Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess prodigy, becomes a grandmaster at age 13 and world champion in 2013.