FOUR STARS When a career man loses his job after decades of loyalty, he devises an alarming plan to get his job, any job, back. DRAMA KOREA Korean #NOOTHERCHOICE Starring Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin You know you’re well into awards season when every other film you watch hits the 2 hour 30 mark, and so it is with Park Chan-wook’s challenging NO OTHER CHOICE. Part social satire, part comedy horror, part devastating drama, it’s all parts Park from the exquisite visuals to the off

FIVE STARS A couple lose their son to the plague. A tragedy that could have destroyed them, unites them. DRAMA UK English #HAMNET Starring Jess Buckley, Paul Mescal There are films that announce arrive with fanfare and then there are films like HAMNET, which land softly, almost apologetically, and undo you with their grace. Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel is such a work. A period drama of rare emotional intelligence that understands grief is not a dramati

THREE AND A HALF STARS A demanding choirmaster aims to bring hope to a mill town depleted by the ravages of World War I. DRAMA UK English #THECHORAL Starring Ralph Fiennes, Mark Addy THE CHORAL is the kind of film that arrives as advertised, clears its throat politely and gets on with the job. Set in a Yorkshire village during the grim attrition of the First World War, it centres on a depleted male voice choir and the cultured outsider brought in to revive it. There are hymn