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Cannes Film Festival 2017: Palme d’Or predictions

By David Jenkins

Three scenarios for who might win big at this year’s prize giving.

Why Sense8 is like nothing else on TV right now

By Ella Donald

The hit Netflix series is a dizzying, lavish feast that manages to feel epic and intimate at the same time.

Harry Styles and cast on working with Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk

By Adam Woodward

The ensemble cast talk exclusively about their challenging roles in the upcoming war drama.

How The Lost World taught me that films can be cruel

By Josh Slater-Williams

A key death in Steven Spielberg’s 1997 sequel completely altered my perception of cinema.

Based on a True Story – first look review

By David Jenkins

This cunning literary thriller from Roman Polanski intrigues rather than wows at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.

You Were Never Really Here – first look review

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Joaquin Phoenix bares his soul in Lynne Ramsay’s noir-tinged New York thriller.

The Rider – first look review

By Elena Lazic

Chloe Zhao’s hushed neo western offers a feminist perspective on a man in crisis.

Radiance – first look review

By David Jenkins

Naomi Kawase channels Mills and Boon in this romance about the world of film audio description.

David Michôd: ‘When your leaders lie to you all the time, you stop believing anything’

By Manuela Lazic

The Australian writer/director sounds off about his spiky military satire, War Machine.

How to draw a Studio Ghibli movie – with the director of The Red Turtle

By William Carroll

Michaël Dudok de Wit reveals how traditional animation comes to life.

The King of Kong is being turned into a musical

By William Carroll

Director Seth Gordon says his cult arcade game documentary is destined for the stage.

Why more actors need to take a leaf out of Nicole Kidman’s book

By Amy Bowker

She’s pledged to work with a female director every 18 months in a bid for greater gender equality.

A Gentle Creature – first look review

By David Jenkins

Corruption and vice reign supreme in Sergei Loznitsa’s punishingly bleak descent into the bowels of Russia.

Top of the Lake: China Girl – first look review

By Matt Hoffman

Jane Campion and Elisabeth Moss return for a brilliant second season of this atmospheric crime saga.

Good Time – first look review

By David Jenkins

Robert Pattinson slays it as a petty hood on a downward spiral in the Safdie brothers’ ace crime thriller.

Jeune Femme – first look review

By David Jenkins

This delectable French coming-of-age farce is powered by a stunning central performance from actor Laetitia Dosch.

The emasculation of Clint Eastwood in The Beguiled

By David Pountain

Don Siegel’s period thriller shows this icon of screen masculinity at his most pathetic and vulnerable.

The Beguiled – first look review

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Sofia Coppola stuns the Cannes crowd with an intoxicating film about repressed female sexuality.

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