Todd Philips delivers a new standalone origin story for the clown with the cracked smile. Joaquin Phoenix plays Joker as a lightning rod for a sick world. A clown-for-hire by day, he spends nights as a struggling stand up comic. But when he is pushed too far, Joker is ready to regurgitate Gotham City’s hate.

Editor Alain (Guillaume Canet) rejects the latest piece of veiled autobiography from author Léonard. But that's OK: he has his affair with Alain’s wife, actress Selena (Juliette Binoche) to comfort him. After all, his wife Valérie has little time for his self-indulgence nor his imbroglios. But events force them into confronting their double lives.

This gripping political thriller tells the real life story of a government whistleblower who exposed the unlawful basis for the 2003 Iraq War. Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley) is working at GCHQ, watching Tony Blair justify the invasion on evidence she knows is faulty. When America's NSA ask her and her colleagues to blackmail UN security council members to force a resolution for war, she is put in an untenable moral dilemma.

Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this new production of Donizetti's comedy of domestic drama across two generations.

Director Ken Loach teams once again with I, Daniel Blake screenwriter Paul Laverty for another powerful indictment of the capitalist forces shaping modern Britain. No one else is making films with the urgency of Loach, and the performances here have a raw honesty that cuts to the humanity of complex political problems.

In 15th-century England, Prince Hal (Timothée Chalamet) transforms from wayward wastrel to powerful king after he reluctantly inherits the throne and its many conflicts. Fighting with Hotspur (Ben Mendelsohn) and the Dauphin (Robert Pattinson), he must assume the mantle of leader and ruler.