MARIA DUARTE ponders the defence this film makes, of charisma and ‘ordinariness,’ that Hollywood uses to dramatise Nazi war criminals

MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O CONNOR and JOHN GREEN review The Choral, Belen, Dragonfly, and Colossal Wreck

MARIA DUARTE recommends a brutal drama with an unstable young mother at its heart

MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You

MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of an enterprising US convict whose campaign of theft involved military planning and exquisite manners

MARIA DUARTE recommends a tense reminder that nuclear war remains a frighteningly real possibility

MARIA DUARTE is entertained by a wry portrait of befuddled resistance to US authoritarianism

MARIA DUARTE recommends the powerful study of an underfunded reform school and the staff who struggle to do good

MARIA DUARTE cherishes the flashes of absurd humour and theme of community healing in a documentary set in a Soviet-era Black Sea sanatorium

MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable documentary, culled from 20 years of smartphone footage, that documents the trials of being a single parent

MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family

MARIA DUARTE recommends the ambitious portrait of an agricultural community confronted by the trauma of enclosure