As the awards season reaches its climax, Adam Nayman looks deeper at the how and the why of acting excellence, as well as the who.

Cillian Murphy reprises his role as the Brummie gangster, this time to face his estranged son Duke (Barry Keoghan), in a bloody big-screen version of the TV series that will go down well with fans.

Fernando Eimbcke’s sharp eye for composition captures the restless present tense of childhood in a bittersweet film about a young boy in Mexico City trying to make sense of his mother’s illness.