Our staff writers pick their personal favourites from this year’s festival.
Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-Hsien reinvents the martial arts movie, with utterly astonishing results.
Anaïs Demoustier and Jérémie Elkaïm are perfectly cast in this rewarding tale of forbidden love.
Jacques Audiard follows up Rust and Bone with a nuanced and gratifying immigration tale.
The director of The Great Beauty returns with a gorgeous, flippant comedy on mortality with Michael Caine in the lead.
Miguel Gomes dazzles and infuriates (but mostly dazzles) with a rambling love poem to his poverty-stricken country.
Pixar’s delightful and sophisticated latest takes us on a dazzling journey into the mind of a child.
The director of Oslo, August 31st returns with an affecting English-language debut.
Blue Ruin director Jeremy Saulnier delivers another consummately crafted backwoods thriller.
Vincent Cassel and Emmanuelle Bercot find a (not so) groovy kind of love in Maïwenn’s drab relationship drama.
Nanni Moretti’s chronicle of the death of a filmmaker’s mother is continuously out of thematic focus.
Asif Kapadia’s melodramatic portrait of the late jazz singer fails to hit all the right notes.
Todd Haynes lights up the Croisette with this exemplary lesbian romance starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.
Romanian New Waver Radu Muntean delivers a superlative twist on the murder mystery genre.
The new feature from Arnaud Desplechin is a rite-of-passage masterpiece.
A powerhouse turn from Matthew McConaughey isn’t enough to save Gus Van Sant’s sappy suicide drama.
The 2015 Cannes Director’s Fortnight strand opens with a magnificent miniature from Philippe Garrel.
Emmanuelle Bercot kicks off this year’s Cannes in blistering style with this sensitive delinquent drama.
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