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Here are the movies that our critics say have made the year a strong one onscreen.

Hollywood can't let go of one particular obsession.

“I’m using the [porn] industry as an allegory to say something about patriarchy, capitalism, the American Dream,” says director Ninja Thyberg of her searing debut feature

Complex, candid porn drama Pleasure and pitch-black sex-business satire Red Rocket follow in the writhing wake of Boogie Nights et al

New films like Good Luck to You, Leo Grande are challenging cinematic tropes about sex workers. It's a refreshing change, writes Rafa Sales Ross.

Cinema theorists’ most hallowed idea, the ‘male gaze’, is being upturned by a feminist wave – but old ideas, as two new films show, die hard

The film title Pleasure begs the question, who’s pleasure? Since first-time feature director Ninja Thyberg’s cautionary drama depicts the journey of a newcomer intent on becoming the Los Angeles adult film industry’s top female performer, the pleasure in question self-evidently isn’t hers, but that taken by the hordes of men who’ll watch her being systematically degraded on Pornhub and its ilk. 

The Swedish director of Pleasure was an anti-porn activist – until she saw how sex workers valued their “erotic capital”.

Sofia Kappel is striking as a young Swedish actor taking her first steps into the adult film industry, where power relations are the same as they ever were

Ninja Thyberg’s explicit yet curiously remote debut seems caught between challenging ideas about the porn industry’s corrupting influence, and reinforcing them.