The Last Face Cannes: Nothing can disguise the jaw-dropping imbecility of this projectSean Penn delivers a film that suggests he may need to stick to his investigative reporting day jobFri May 20 2016 - 17:28
Cannes Film Festival: Sean Penn fails to save faceDirector’s new film receives abysmal reviews, while Iggy Pop shows his lust for lifeFri May 20 2016 - 16:51
Heart of a Dog review: Laurie Anderson makes the experimental deliciousAnderson’s late husband, Lou Reed, is an unmentioned presence in a sweetly sentimental tributeThu May 19 2016 - 19:51
Mirror review: Mother love in the motherlandAndrei Tarkovsky explores his relationships with family and country in a ’75 cult favourite that is the very definition of arthouseThu May 19 2016 - 19:25
It’s Only the End of the World Cannes review: the festival’s largest disappointment so farAt the grand age of 27, Xavier Dolan has finally made a poor filmThu May 19 2016 - 17:59
Cannes bidding war hots up for Martin Scorcese’s 'The Irishman'Film-maker to reprise relationship with De Niro and direct for first time . . . Al PacinoThu May 19 2016 - 12:53
Cannes review: The Unknown Woman. A bit of a dud from the DardennesJessica Fletcher had more angles to her personality than the protagonist of this passionless affairWed May 18 2016 - 15:20
Cannes review: Ma’ Rosa. A hustle through the grim streets of ManilaDirector Brillante Mendoza is relentless in his pursuit of grubby verité, and his vision is worth enduringWed May 18 2016 - 15:13
Cannes review: Aquarius. A defiant Brazilian heroine eyes up a prizeSônia Braga is brilliant in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s wonderful second featureWed May 18 2016 - 15:03
Julieta Cannes review: ‘Age is not an illness. It’s a massacre’Pedro Almodóvar quoted Philip Roth while promoting his latest work, made in his typical primary coloursTue May 17 2016 - 13:05
Personal Shopper Cannes review: Kristen Stewart film gets booed at festivalThe Cannes crowd react to a ghost story with no scares and a psychological drama with no gripTue May 17 2016 - 12:54
Negga’s ‘Loving’ performance already generating Oscar buzzLimerick actor who was cut out of ‘12 Years a Slave’ is having a dizzying career surgeTue May 17 2016 - 01:00
Cannes review: Loving. Ruth Negga shines as one half of a couple who changed the USJeff Nichols’s film about a couple who were arrested and expelled from Virginia for falling foul of anti-miscegenation laws refuses to take the obvious pathMon May 16 2016 - 18:49
Paterson Cannes review: Pure, filmic poetryJim Jarmusch latest film is deceptively rich with its elements in perfect balanceMon May 16 2016 - 10:48
Female voices to fore in first half of Cannes Film FestivalMaren Ade’s ‘Toni Erdmann’ is a strong early contender for Palme d’OrSun May 15 2016 - 19:45
The BFG review: It's no catastrophe, but it's no E.T.Steven Spielberg directs Roald Dahl’s classic tale which is playing out of competition in CannesSat May 14 2016 - 14:46
Greetings from the anti-Eurovision Cannes film festivalEurovision allows endless self-satirising digs. Refreshingly, Cannes takes itself seriouslySat May 14 2016 - 05:00
Amazon leading la révolution at Cannes Film FestivalStreaming service presents five films at event potentially offering hope to independent sectorFri May 13 2016 - 21:24
Ma Loute/Slack Bay Cannes review: gorgeous, funny and a bit infuriatingJuliette Binoche throws herself at the camera with admirable abandon, but Bruno Dumont’s brave step into comedy frustrates as often as it delightsFri May 13 2016 - 16:44
I, Daniel Blake Cannes review: a deeply moving, darkly funny dramaKen Loach and Paul Laverty continue their longtime collaboration with a skull-shaking study of the Kafkaesque lunacy of Britain’s benefit systemFri May 13 2016 - 11:47
Patrick Stewart on shouting, playing a Nazi and elocution with Brian BlessedBeloved for his Jean-Luc Picard in ‘ST:TNG’, the Shakespearean star now plays a scarifying neo-Nazi skinhead in the hit thriller ‘Green Room’. And why not? ‘I know I’m known for screaming and shouting’Fri May 13 2016 - 06:00
Woody Allen rejects culture of judgment at Cannes festivalControversy stoked by MC’s bizarre joke about director and rape at opening ceremonyThu May 12 2016 - 21:43
Mustang review: a sad story with delicious energyThis wonderful, Oscar-nominated debut suggests one of those playful novels that employ a first-person plural narratorThu May 12 2016 - 19:00
Our Kind of Traitor review: master filleted with a cautious knifeEwan McGregor and Naomie Harris can’t spice up the latest Le Carré adaptationThu May 12 2016 - 17:30
Café Society Cannes review: the brand new old thingWoody Allen’s new film for Amazon welds together his typical party pieces, with Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart playing with charmThu May 12 2016 - 16:11
Everybody Wants Some!! review: Breezy dispatch from the dark agesThe right-on director has made something closer to ‘Animal House’ than anything in his own admirable oeuvreThu May 12 2016 - 14:30
Money Monster Cannes review: Jack O'Connell seethes around George Clooney's vulgarityJodie Foster delivers her best directorial effort yet in this starry financial thrillerThu May 12 2016 - 12:00
Sieranevada Cannes review: ample food for thought amid all the long takesDespite some inevitable longeurs during its defiant three-hour running time, Cristi Puiu follow-up to The Death of Mister Lazarescu remains gripping and amusingThu May 12 2016 - 11:52
Staying Vertical Cannes review: more madness than methodA fine visual style, with strange and beautiful sights, but absurd shifts make this Alain Guiraudie film too jarringThu May 12 2016 - 11:47
Cannes Film Festival 2016: Established masters - and some fresh facesThree female directors out of 20 will compete for this year's Palme d’Or - in 2012 there was none on the list for the top prizeWed May 11 2016 - 14:09
Cannes Film Festival set to save cinematic souls from limboWoody Allen in line to set record while Pedro Almodóvar and Cristi Puiu eye Palme d’OrWed May 11 2016 - 03:00
Cannes 2016: the Palme d’Or really does influence world cinema – and here’s the proofEvery now and then, the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize anticipates a movementTue May 10 2016 - 15:24
Gerry Adams’s N-word tweet: racism is not binaryWe need vigilance, but all of us, including the Sinn Féin leader, are probably somewhere on the scaleSat May 07 2016 - 07:00
Stephen Frears: ‘I’m a member of the metropolitan elite. If I were anywhere else, I'd hate me'The director greets questions with a sigh, suffers no fools - and is entirely fascinatingFri May 06 2016 - 06:00
I Saw the Light review: Tom Hiddleston is too good for this Hank Williams biopicIf they were to give out awards for the most by-the-numbers release of the year (doesn’t the Academy already do that?), then this would take some beatingThu May 05 2016 - 16:34
Evolution review: a stunningly beautiful allegory of sex and birthHuman biology goes into meltdown in Lucile Hadzihalilovic fantastic, other-worldly fable from a weird worldThu May 05 2016 - 16:27
Florence Foster Jenkins review: a deliciously dire diva has her dayThe true(ish) story of the world’s worst opera singer makes for comedy gold, thanks to its star double act of Meryl Streep and Hugh GrantThu May 05 2016 - 15:54
We’re not in Ardee any more: meet the Irish director of the Angry Birds MovieYou might not have heard of him, but Fergal Reilly, director of the video-game crossover, is one of our most successful cinematic exportsThu May 05 2016 - 06:00
Bad Neighbours 2 review: a little bit funnier, a bit more socially awareSeth Rogen, Rose Byrne and Zac Efron reprise the adulthood-on-hold set-up of the original, this time with a mild undercurrent of empowermentWed May 04 2016 - 15:07
Donald Clarke: Are cinema chatterers the ultimate movie villains?Texting in cinemas is relatively new, but talking has been there since the dawn of filmSat Apr 30 2016 - 07:00
László Nemes: “Is it now trendy for 17-year-olds to be neo-Nazis?"Son of Saul director László Nemes raises some uncomfortable truths in his remarkable Oscar-winning Holocaust drama, and in conversation he’s no less controversialFri Apr 29 2016 - 06:53
Demolition review: stylistically contrived and ludicrously self-importantJake Gyllenhaal once again great as the damaged all-American, but almost everything else falls flat in Jean-Marc Vallée’s bizarre psychodramaThu Apr 28 2016 - 17:25
Atlantic review: epic in scope, damning in its conclusionsRisteard O’Domhnaill follows up The Pipe with a beautifully shot, warmly narrated (take a bow Brendan Gleeson) and concisely delivered filmThu Apr 28 2016 - 13:29
Captain America: Civil War review - it's a superhero war of the world viewsMarvel has made the rules of the superhero franchise, and Captain America is not the man to start breaking themWed Apr 27 2016 - 14:00
How will you answer the religion question on your Census 2016 form?It’s surely not asking too much for people who don’t believe in God to admit as muchSat Apr 23 2016 - 07:00
Miles Ahead review: Interesting biopic that hits a few bum notesDon Cheadle’s portrait of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis has hints of the experimental and some lovely moments that point towards half-grasped possibilitiesFri Apr 22 2016 - 06:00
Bastille Day review: this really is second-rate, bargain-bin entertainmentGiven recent tragedies in France, you would struggle to argue that the central premise is in good tasteThu Apr 21 2016 - 17:00
Gabriel Byrne: 'There's a difference between a great star and a great actor'Gabriel Byrne on the "repressive and unexciting" Ireland of his youth, on resisting the Hollywood hierarchy and on retaining his Irishness after 30 years as a New YorkerThu Apr 21 2016 - 12:55
Friend Request review: a stupid, irresponsible, immoral Facebook shockerThis militantly appalling horror offers so much to complain about that it is hard to know where to startThu Apr 21 2016 - 10:59
Eye in the Sky review: Rickman and Mirren caught in the moral crosshairs of drone warfareMoral ambiguity and Hitchcockian tension are to the fore in Gavin Hood’s admirable drone-strike thrillerFri Apr 15 2016 - 11:28
