A teenage girl finds online fame in Mamoru Hosoda’s internet-age update of Beauty and the Beast.
Cannes favourite Jacques Audiard returns to the Croisette with a low-key love story set around the fringes of the French capital.
By Mark Asch
Tilda Swinton is extraordinary in a film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul which comprises of “pure vibes”.
Mathieu Amalric’s engrossing family drama is further proof that Vicky Krieps is one of the world’s most exciting actors.
Simon Rex is superbly cast in Sean Baker’s sparkling character study of a porn actor well past his pomp.
Abdallah Al-Khatib’s extraordinary documentary captures daily life in the largest Palestinian refugee camp.
Julia Ducournau’s sensational second feature offers an intoxicating mix of grease, gore and gasoline.
Asghar Farhadi’s exceptional Iran-centred drama is a soulful reflection on the morality of crime.
By Mark Asch
Kirill Serebrennikov’s delirious latest offers a strikingly singular vision of life in post-Soviet Russia.
Arnaud Desplechin judiciously adapts Philip Roth’s verbose 1990 novel about an adulterous author.
Ari Folman’s animated retelling of the wartime diarist’s tragic story falls foul of some questionable artistic license.
A masterful dissection of love, memory and autobiography from the ever-wonderful French maestro, Mia Hansen-Løve.
Wes Anderson’s star-studded, multi-chaptered tribute to The New York is his most impressionistic work to date.
Oliver Stone is at his most conspiracy-minded in this entertaining but outlandish doc on the JFK assassination.
By Mark Asch
Sean Penn returns to Cannes five years after the fiasco of The Last Face with a somehow even more calamitous family drama.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi adapts Murukami and delivers a masterpiece study on the fickle dynamics of human emotion.
By Mark Asch
This delicate Finnish comedy of social and political manners has all the trappings of an arthouse crowd-pleaser.
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