Film

Miles Ahead

Don Cheadle and Ewan McGregor excel in this energetic look at the life of a peerless jazz legend, writes Robert Gallacher

The care taker

Robert Gallacher on the beauty of Audiard’s timely human drama

If not now

Lilly Markaki chooses ten films which inspire viewers to take action

Lost picture show

An ambitious project to refashion abandoned film from the 1950s is totally beguiling, writes Alistair Braidwood

Natural disaster

Peter Greenaway’s story about a venerated Soviet director is visually pleasing but hilariously bad, writes David Melville

Time out

Richard Gere’s drama about homelessness makes compelling viewing, writes Robert Gallacher

Natural woman

A new documentary about Janis Joplin unearths the fragile character with a mesmerising vocal talent, writes Alistair Braidwood

Down the rabbit hole

Happy Birthday to Fantasia which first graced cinema screens in 1940. Nathanael Smith on a genuinely bravura classic

The Gift

Isao Takahata’s stunning fable The Tale of Princess Kaguya is unlike any other major studio animation, writes Nathanael Smith

Portrait of teacher John Hunter at his home in Richmond Virginia

World turned upside down

The story of an unconventional primary teacher’s multi-dimensional peace game challenges assumptions about human capacity for co-operation, writes Patrick Small