The Travers Take

The astonishing Mahershala Ali digs deep as a Texas hitman trying to reconcile fury and fatherhood with his own Muslim code.

This hallicinatory hellscape puts a scarily brilliant Robert Pattinson in the Oscar race as a TV host who chases predators for ratings and goes mad in the process.

Ex-soldier Brad Pitt and a combat dog, both with PTSD, star in a survival story filled with fun, ferocity and genuine feeling. And the dog does not die!

Its excesses can be exhausting, but this animated celebration of Filipino culture glides smartly through the joys and agonies of female friendship.

A bomb it is, lacking in surprise, suspense and any reason for actually existing.

Zach Cregger directs breakout star Austin Abrams in a zowie zombie apocalypse that captures the spirit of the videogame without becoming its bitch.

Nothing to traumatize the kid fan base, just some of the best stop-motion animation anywhere, all done by hand, in a new Halloween classic from the Aardman gang.

Predictable? To say the least. But Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe add a piercing vulnerability to the standard chest thumping,reinventing Cool Hand Luke as a prisoner and his warden carve out their own definition of manhood.

In this darkly comic thriller, teacher Saoirse Ronan loses it and takes drastic action against a rotten 10-year-old student who’s spoiling her whole classroom bunch.

What do you call a Britpop concert film about two fighting Irish brothers enjoying a temporary cease in hostilities? Try unmissable.