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Iranian again flouts his movie-making ban in the most imaginative manner with darkly humorous political satire
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Our list again leans strongly on the cultural cinema that emerged from big festivals such as Cannes and Venice
Pillion review: Think Norman Wisdom as a gay motorcyclist’s plaything and you’re halfway there
In Harry Lighton’s impressive debut feature, a very English class of reasonableness brushes against an equally English interest in hierarchical kink
A Mind of My Own by Kathy Burke: London-Irish performer’s extraordinary trajectory
Kathy Burke name-checks and settles scores but one gets the sense that she has much more to say
From Ground Zero review: 22 stories told by Gazans under siege
Collection of short films highlights miraculous act of carrying on amid obliteration of normal life
Young Mothers review: The Dardenne brothers bring empathy to interlocking stories of underage mothers in Liège
The Belgian film-makers’ 13th feature deftly weaves together the lives of five young women
Harvest star Harry Melling: ‘I was surrounded by titans like Fiona Shaw. I was starry-eyed as they told me stories about theatre work’
The Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari is the latest auteur to take a shine to the former Harry Potter actor, who has earned the respect of everyone from the Coen brothers to Christian Bale
‘I couldn’t resist the fact that the sharks weren’t the monsters’: Sean Byrne on making the thriller Dangerous Animals
The cult Australian director’s latest movie pits the oceans’ apex predators against human savagery
Dangerous Animals review: Jaws meets Wolf Creek in this watery Ozploitation movie
Not especially gripping or intriguing, but it rattles along as effective B-movie gore
Scarlett Johansson: ‘I had a very formidable grandmother who I was incredibly close with’
The actor has taken up directing with her debut Eleanor the Great, about an elderly woman who inadvertently ends up in a support group for Holocaust survivors
Cannes: 15 of the most unforgettable looks, from Pedro Pascal to Rihanna
Actors, musicians and models mostly adhered to the French film festival’s new ‘no nudity’ rule on the red carpet
The Last of Us finale review: A nerve-shredding, bloody conclusion that leaves us wanting more, and soon
Television: The series has delivered a riveting portrayal of the tragically unintended consequences that can flow from revenge
Cannes 2025: Clapologists get it wrong, an acidic Israeli satire is too hot to handle, and Scarlett Johansson serves up schmaltz
The French film festival’s 78th edition was strong if rarely spectacular – but still threw up a few surprises
Iranian director Jafar Panahi wins Palme d’Or at Cannes for It Was Just an Accident
Harry Lighton’s Pillion, produced by Dublin-based Element Pictures, takes award for best screenplay in the Un Certain Regard section
Benicio Del Toro: ‘I do movies that are more than just shooting and killing’
Benicio Del Toro and Michael Cera speak about their roles in Wes Anderson's latest film
Cannes 2025: Julian Assange makes for unlikely new star, walkouts at warts-and-all Shia LaBeouf film - and Brigitte Bardot is back
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Paul Mescal tries hard but ultimately The History of Sound is flimsy
Cannes Festival: Adaptation of Ben Shattuck’s musically themed short story brings Mescal together with Josh O’Connor
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The Phoenician Scheme review: Beautiful to look at, but like a museum vase – pretty, pristine and hollow
Wes Anderson’s film, starring Benicio Del Toro and Mia Threapleton, makes little advance on the director’s recent airless productions
No popcorn, no phones, no buckets of fast food: you realise how bad Irish cinemas are when you see films in ideal surroundings
Going to the movies was never so idyllic as old bores pretend. But handheld devices and noisy food have made it so much worse
Bono at Cannes: ‘You wrote this story. The Edge wrote this story. Adam and Larry wrote this story. McGuinness wrote this story’
The film version of the singer’s stage show Stories of Surrender received a seven-minute standing ovation
Cannes 2025: Tom Cruise’s death-defying wing-walking, and the festival’s ban on an actor accused of assault
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First Look: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: Tom Cruise gets all sentimental amid some suave mayhem
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Cannes 2025: DiCaprio pays moving tribute to De Niro, Binoche passes verdict on Depardieu, and I avoid red-carpet nudity
Cannes Diary: French film festival’s opening day contends with news from Gérard Depardieu’s sexual-assault trial
Cannes film festival 2025 red carpet looks: Halle Berry among stars caught out by stricter dress code
No nudity or voluminous gowns rule sees last-minute change by Oscar-winner, while Juliette Binoche welcomed a shift on heels
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‘We would go to motels to have sex. In Brazil, as in every Catholic country, there’s a huge degree of hypocrisy’
Film-maker Aïnouz talks about Berlin parties, taking back Brazil from the military and coming to see cinema as an artform that can change the world
Grand Tour review: An epic, enchanting globe-trotting adventure
The Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes thoroughly deserved his best-director award at Cannes
Julie Keeps Quiet director Leonardo Van Dijl: ‘I didn’t want to make a film about a hashtag’
The director’s debut feature is a gripping post-#MeToo drama about a teenage tennis prodigy. Has she been groomed?
Grand Tour star Crista Alfaiate: ‘Portuguese cinema has this beautiful heritage – the sense of freedom’
Miguel Gomes won the best director award at Cannes for a film that is properly strange, in a way you don’t get from the mainstream
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