Emma Stone has well and truly cemented her status as one of her generation’s finest actresses with her jaw-dropping performance in Poor Things.

Barry Keoghan is the star of Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, a riveting black comedy full of drama and eye-catching set designs.

Considering the impact David Fincher’s films tend to have on us, the most remarkable thing about his most recent project is a complete lack of any impression left.

We have been treated to quite the year of cinema so far, and the legendary Martin Scorsese was never going to let us down with his latest screenplay.

Celine Song’s Past Lives is a masterpiece - and despite there being bigger films this year, there have been none better.

For Greta Gerwig, being sexist is apparently fine as long as it gives her a chance to parade her deepest, darkest viewpoints in a 114-minute Trojan horse of a movie.

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a work of art. After the somewhat divisive Tenet’s release in 2020, the director had a number of critics to silence - and he has duly zipped their mouths shut and thrown away the key.

It’s not Wes Anderson’s best, but it may be his oddest - and in all honesty, that’s probably a bigger compliment for him anyway.

Expectations were not high going into Dial of Destiny, but the painful 155 minute ordeal is much worse than anybody could have imagined.

If early reviews (who bothers with those?) are anything to go by, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is up there with the best movies of its generation. You can take this early review’s word for it - it’s not.