Zhao specialises in quiet, sensitive blends of documentary and drama, rather than computer-generated action sequences. If you had to think of the ideal person to make such a film, then, you probably wouldn't come up with ChloГ© Zhao, the Oscar-winning director of Nomadland. Released on 18 November in Russia, 19 November in the UK, and 24 November in the USД®ternals is a Marvel blockbuster about a tribe of superheroes (the cast of which includes Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek and Richard Madden) who were sent to Earth several millennia ago by some billion-year-old space gods called the Celestials. As he is chauffeured to and from his rented house by a quiet young woman (Toko Miura), he slowly comes to terms with betrayal and bereavement.В 'Its sprawling three-hour runtime unfolds with the same rhythm, same possibilities, and same hypnotic quality of a cross-country drive,' saidВ Sarah Kurchak of The Spool.В 'It's a superb piece of filmmaking, every bit as confounding and yet relatable as the human experience.' Two years after his wife's sudden death, Yusuke accepts a job at a theatre festival in Hiroshima.

Adapted from a 40-page Haruki Murakami short story, Drive My Car revolves around an actor-turned director, Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), who is happily married to a screenwriter, despite her numerous infidelities. With a three-hour running time, Drive My Car may be one of the year's longest films, but it's also one of the most acclaimed: Ryusuke Hamaguchi's meditative drama has a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes (at time of writing), and it won the best screenplay award when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Released on 11 November in Italy, 12 November in the US and Canada and 25 November in Portugal Winner of the People's Choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival, Belfast is already being tipped as a best picture contender at the Oscars. That cast featuresВ Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe as the boy's parents, and Judi Dench and CiarГЎn Hinds as his grandparents. 'The result is engaging, tender film-making which tugs at the heart-strings, spurred by a sympathetic cast,' writesВ Fionnuala Halligan at Screen Daily. Now, though, he has made his most personal film, a small-scale black-and-white drama which sees the Northern Irish capital through the eyes of a working-class boy (Jude Hill) in the late-1960s: Branagh himself was born in the city and lived there until he moved to England at the age of nine. Having launched his directorial career with a run of Shakespeare adaptations, Kenneth Branagh has devoted the past decade to such splashy, big-budget studio fare as Thor, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Cinderella, and Artemis Fowl. Casting aside, the film is a rip-roaring, blood-splattering blast of shoot-outs and bank robberies, with a soundtrack that bursts with hip-hop, funk and reggae, and an attitude taken straight from Quentin Tarantino.В 'It is easy to forget that this is Samuel's feature film directorial debut,' writesВ William Stottor at Loud and Clear.В 'Boasting some of the best acting, direction, cinematography and action sequences of the year, The Harder They Fall is so fantastically intoxicating, a heady mixture of nostalgia and freshness moulded together to form something quite breathless.' The heroes include Jonathan Majors, Zazie Beetz, and Delroy Lindo the villains include Idris Elba, Regina King, and LaKeith Stanfield.

Director Jeymes Samuel goes some small way towards redressing the balance with The Harder They Fall, a stylish Western in which almost all of the characters, heroes and villains, are played by black actors. A quarter of all the cowboys in the Old West were black, but the proportion is a lot smaller in Hollywood Westerns.

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