MARIA DUARTE cherishes the flashes of absurd humour and theme of community healing in a documentary set in a Soviet-era Black Sea sanatorium

MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable documentary, culled from 20 years of smartphone footage, that documents the trials of being a single parent

MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family

MARIA DUARTE recommends the ambitious portrait of an agricultural community confronted by the trauma of enclosure

MARIA DUARTE recommends a chilling examination of the influence of Evangelical Christianity over the far right in Brazil

MARIA DUARTE recommends the creepy thrills of David Cronenburg’s provocative and macabre exploration of grief

MARIA DUARTE recommends the very human portrayal of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist in Putin’s Russia

Is there a political message in the scenario of a plague of raging zombies in the UK, and kids growing up with it, wonders MARIA DUARTE

MARIA DUARTE recommends the deeply moving story, based on real experience, of a homeless single mother

MARIA DUARTE recommends an exposure of the state violence used against pro-Palestine protests in the US

The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Along Came Love, The Ballad of Wallis Island, The Ritual, and Karate Kid: Legends

MARIA DUARTE recommends the powerful dramatisation of the true story of a husband and wife made homeless