We have reported the issue to our MS Partner and to quote, the problem is "under discussion, the Product Manager has been involved and we are working to understand how to proceed with this problem after the changes applied to the Bank account reconciliation feature".
So hopefully good news soon.
With regards to a workaround, I'm not sure there is one at the moment. I have exported the ledger entries into Excel then sorted by TRUE/FALSE to bring up only the unreconciled items. From there I can search for the corresponding bank statement entries.
The sort function within the Business Central bank rec works and it seems that although the filter function does not work, if you filter by a specific date it takes you to that date and shows all transactions onwards.