Film / Drama
Sweet Country
A gripping period Australian outback western inspired by a true story
This week’s bumper crop of new releases includes Nic Cage going full psycho, an acclaimed Australian period drama, Lynne Ramsay’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to We Need to Talk About Kevin, this year’s Woody Allen and this week’s generic plucky underdog Britcom. There are also preview screenings of that Tomb Raider ‘reboot’ you didn’t ask for. See it in 3D on Wednesday or Thursday, or in bog-standard 2D on Thursday only.
The bulk of the Bristol Film Festival’s spring programme takes place this week too, though be warned that many of these events are already sold out. Check the individual listings for details.
Should you be a mother, you may or may not be delighted to learn that the cinema industry thinks you deserve singalgong screenings of Mamma Mia! on Mother’s Day. And if you missed any of this year’s big Oscar winners, we’ve got a guide to where to see the ones that are still showing.
As usual, follow the links for screening times and go here for our comprehensive film listings.
Film / Drama
A gripping period Australian outback western inspired by a true story
Film / Drama
Joaquin Phoenix sets out to track down a missing girl in Lynne Ramsay's psychological thriller
Film / Drama
Kate Winslet stars in Woody Allen's period drama of shattered dreams
Film / Action
David Oyelowo gets into all kinds of scrapes in Mexico in this action-comedy
Film / Comedy
Britcom about a bunch of aging 1980s wrestlers who stage a comeback to save their boozer
Film / Action
Relentless, stunt-packed martial arts action flick, screened in Redcliffe Caves
Film / Comedy
Oscar-winning dysfunctional family road movie returns on its 15th anniversary
Film / Art House
David Lynch's 2001 head-scratcher back on screen in late night cult classics season
Film / Drama
Tarantino classic returns to lighten your lockdown
Film / Festival Screening
Cult science fiction classic screened in Redcliffe Caves
Film / Drama
Lynne Ramsay's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's novel launches Jonny Greenwood score season
Film / Thriller
Carol Reed's classic adaptation of Graham Greene's novel beautifully restored in 4K
Film / Festival Screening
A French vegetarian cannibal campus horror, no less
Film / Festival Screening
Michael Powell's hugely influential precursor to the slasher genre
Film / Comedy
Great almost-local Edgar Wright cop comedy screened in a former cell
Film / Drama
Terry Gilliam’s blackly comic dystopian masterpiece
Film / Action
Share a police cell with Tom Hardy's terrifying Charles Bronson
Film / Fantasy
The late David Bowie in his silliest film performance, screened in Redcliffe Caves
Film / Drama
Clint Eastwood prison escape drama screened in a former police cell
Film / Drama
Mystifyingly popular Stephen King prison drama returns to the big screen
Film / Fantasy
Johnny Depp stars in Tim Burton's moving fantasy
Film / Event Cinema
Spectacular staging of Verdi's masterpiece on a giant floating mirrored stage
Film / Comedy
Tonight the definitive rock spoof returns to rock you again tonight
Film / Festival Screening
The original 1962 version of this great suspense thriller with Robert Mitchum
Film / Drama
Prestige feminist period drama with Meryl Streep returns for International Women's Day
Film / Documentary
A celebration of the Swinging Sixties (ask your granddad)
Film / Documentary
Documentary about two trafficking survivors who created Nepal's first circus
Film / Event Cinema
Rossini's tragic opera returns to the Met for the first time in 25 years
Film / Event Cinema
Bizet's steamy opera gets a fresh makeover by Australian director Barrie Kosky
Film / Comedy
The enjoyably preposterous musical phenomenon returns
Film / Documentary
Celebration of Bristol's pioneering African Caribbean film and video project
Film / Drama
25th anniversary return of the Coen brothers' classic with an Oscar winning Frances McDormand
Film / Festival Screening
Black tie screenings of Hitchcock's bleak yet brilliant psychological thriller
Film / Animation
Pixar's Oscar winning classic screened in the Curzon's Seaside Cinema weekend
Film / Drama
Sally Hawkins falls for the creature from the black lagoon in Guillermo del Toro's fantasy
Film / Drama
Gary Oldman is Winston Churchill in Joe Wright's backroom WWII drama
Film / Comedy
Bereaved Frances McDormand fights for justice in Martin McDonagh's blackly comic crime drama
Film / Drama
Daniel Day-Lewis stars in Paul Thomas Anderson's Hitchcockian romantic melodrama
Film / Art House
Chilean director Sebastian Lelio's compassionate and timely transgender drama
Film / Comedy
Astonishing true crime story becomes irresistible black comedy
Film / Animation
Pixar does the Day of the Dead with a suitably colourful animation
Film / Art House
A gay coming-of-age story from the director of A Bigger Splash
Film / Action
Alicia Vikander wears the tight-fitting vest in a 'reboot' of the video game-derived franchise
Film / Action
Alicia Vikander wears the tight-fitting vest in a 'reboot' of the video game-derived franchise
Film / Comedy
Saoirse Ronan stars in Greta Gerwig's much-acclaimed coming-of-age yarn
Film / Comedy
Crime comedy about a bunch of pals whose regular game night turns into an actual murder-mystery
Film / Thriller
Jennifer Lawrence reunites with the director of The Hunger Games for a spy thriller
Film / Action
Marvel breaks new ground with its first feature centred on a black superhero
Film / Drama
Musical biopic of US huckster P.T. Barnum with songs from the people behind La La Land
Film / Comedy
Imelda Staunton & Celia Imrie star in a Brit comedy-drama centred on an oldsters' dance group
Film / Event Cinema
Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury discuss the creation of their score for Alex Garland's AI thriller
Film / Event Cinema
The Brit prog titans' epic show at the Albert Hall, which sold out within minutes
Film / Animation
Wes Anderson's animated mutt flick set in a dystopian future Japan
Film / Drama
Beautifully restored silent romantic weepie with new score by Anoushka Shankar
Film / Art House
A multiple award-winning AIDS-era love story by Parisian activist Robin Campillo
Film / Art House
A satire on art in the digital age from the director of Force Majeure
Film / Art House
An intriguing murder-mystery from Hirokazu Kore-eda