Depression-era audiences escaped into a whirl of glamour, fantasy and monsters in a decade that ushered in Hollywood’s golden age

Steven Spielberg’s brisk race through cold war history mashes together some historically unrelated events but acting’s A-team saves the day

The symbolism is blatant and the gender politics iffy in this fanciful version of the Christians’ campaign, but it has a decent stab at historical balance

Historians still debate whether the violence of the women’s suffrage movement was justified. This movie commendably focuses on a working-class suffragette, but doesn’t attempt to make any of the really tough calls