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

The spitting match between the biggest pop stars of the 1970s and 1980s had all the elements for recreational savour

Engrossing Lennon/Ono doc is a fascinating time capsule. Plus an amusing Irish spin-off, a gritty, austere take on The Odyssey, and an exuberant, smash-hit French comedy

Plus: What is the only film in Universal’s doomed Dark Universe ‘series’?

Documentary based on U2 frontman’s memoir will premiere in Cannes, while Paul Mescal will attend for The History of Sound

It wouldn’t do to overanalyse this film set in and about the characterful suburbs of Dublin, but the script never lets up on worthwhile one-liners

There’s always room for a post-Beatles doc if it’s as good and original as this one from Kevin Macdonald

Pleasant Irish comedy Four Mothers, plus Richard Burton’s origin story, a cracking British thriller, and a slacker vibe video game adaptation

Since word got around that rubbing Molly Malone's bronze bazongas brings good fortune, they’ve become shiny enough for Bavarians and Bostonians to redo their eye make-up in them post-frottage. Fondling the statue is not a Dublin tradition. And it probably won’t bring you any luck, writes Donald Clarke

The actor, who recently starred in the Oscar-winning Conclave, arrives to Uberto Pasolini’s The Return as a known property – but is still also a bit of a mystery

Plus: Who said `Who am I? Are you sure you want to know’?

A woman is pushed to the edge when noisy neighbours move in next door

Symbolising a brash period in pop culture, the handsome Californian had an up-and-down professional journey

A gay man saddled with four Dublin matriarchs decides to take a road trip

The star says he’s too old to play any more romantic leads. But something odd has happened: that kind of big film has almost vanished