As a spate of anarchist bombings rips through Europe, Holmes (Downey Jr.) intercepts a letter that leads him to a mysterious gypsy girl (Rapace) and the brilliant Professor Moriarty (Harris). Meanwhile, Watson (Law) endeavours to get married...

Sometimes a film’s best moments come not in any particular shot, but in the gaps between them. We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay’s brilliant and bracingly assured adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s novel about a mother whose teenage son commits an unspeakable crime, is just such a movie. It shows you one thing then shows you another, and asks you to connect the dots to dizzying, ferocious effect.

Madonna believes that her film about Wallis Simpson may rehabilitate the woman whose relationship with Edward VIII caused him to renounce the throne.

The pop star said she hoped that W.E. — her second film as a director — would combat negative portrayals of Mrs Simpson’s character such as in The King’s Speech, which showed her as an ambitious social climber.

A new documentary about Bobby Fischer reveals the troubled chess champ’s life to be stranger than fiction