Pedro Almodóvar is back to his peak with this sumptuous and remarkably subtle Cannes competition entry.
By Ed Frankl
Julia Ducournau’s French campus cannibal horror serves up plenty of food for thought.
Jeff Nichols makes it five-for-five with this gently stirring drama about an interracial couple in ’50s America.
Marion Cotillard shines in this uneven but soulful meditation on marriage and depression.
Another stunner from Jim Jarmusch starring Adam Driver as a bus driver who pines for a life of poetry.
By Elena Lazic
This stunning stop-motion animation set in an orphanage is as witty and insightful as it is quietly shocking.
A poet is born in this autobiographical epic from Chilean maverick, Alejandro Jodorowsky.
A realist vampire flick from a first-timer drops into the Cannes official selection. The results are mixed.
There’s a dash of old-school movie magic in Steven Spielberg’s whizzpopping family fantasy.
One of the great Cannes competition films of recent years comes from a little-known German director.
The great Pablo Larraín delivers a stirring, soaring portrait of Chile’s most treasured poet.
Director Bruno Dumont invites us on a French sea-side holiday with a macabre twist.
By Sarah Jilani
The Cannes Film Festival is slowly but surely setting out to promote gender equality, and others will follow.
Ken Loach returns to Cannes with a ranty anti-government, anti-bureaucracy screed. Not all of it lands.
French director Alain Guiraudie follows up Stranger by the Lake with another alluring and elliptical thriller.
One of the progenitors of the Romanian New Wave returns to the Cannes competition with a rambling family drama.
Despite an effervescent Kristen Stewart, Woody Allen’s frothy period comedy fails to deliver a coherent message.
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