Christian Bale, Natalie Portman and Cate Blanchett mumble codology as the oblique auteur strays even further into self-parody with this narrative-free pretentious mess

If they were to give out awards for the most by-the-numbers release of the year (doesn’t the Academy already do that?), then this would take some beating

Human biology goes into meltdown in Lucile Hadzihalilovic fantastic, other-worldly fable from a weird world

The true(ish) story of the world’s worst opera singer makes for comedy gold, thanks to its star double act of Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant

Two two mangy cats take the lead as the shipwrecked sailor is shoehorned into a wacky animal escapade

The peerless Joan Crawford stars as a pistol-packin’, cross-dressin’ saloonkeeper in one of the strangest and most subversive of American westerns

Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne and Zac Efron reprise the adulthood-on-hold set-up of the original, this time with a mild undercurrent of empowerment

Kristen Wiig plays a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who wins $86 million on the lottery - and then the fun/nightmare begins