Marion Cotillard

This ‘film’ doesn’t even have the good grace to be a bad movie. It’s far worse than that

The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year

The director’s on working with Brad Pitt on Ad Astra, being ignored in America and making movies in Northern Ireland

From Fifty Shades Freed to sleazy Muppets in The Happytime Murders, the cinematic lowlights of the year

Donald Clarke: And then The Shawshank Redemption, The Sting and 12 Angry Women

Review: The wife who went missing 20 years ago reappears and introduces herself to her husband’s new squeeze

The Oscar-winning star of Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine has spoken about sex abuse allegations against the director

Marion Cotillard is smashing as a lovestruck heroine, but this is ‘cinéma de papa’ territory

Show goes on as Michael Haneke tipped for third Palme D’Or, for ‘Happy End’

Dolan’s entry into the Weekend in Family Hell genre is certainly adventurous, but woefully miscast, and ultimately fails in its ambitions

In coverage of Brangelina split, there’s been only one bad guy – and it’s not the Brad guy

Jolie has reportedly requested custody of their six children

Maren Ade’s ‘Toni Erdmann’ is a strong early contender for Palme d’Or

Three 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 prize

Strategy, solidarity and social are strong themes in the entertainment industry

Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ is odds-on favourite for best picture

Irish designer makes stellar debut with Spanish leather goods house

Human catastrophe has always loomed large in Dardenne movies, but now, after decades of onscreen misery, the Belgian brothers are begining to let in a little light

Timothy Spall and Julianne Moore among award winners from the Cannes Jury

Actor and director John Turturro plays a florist turned sex worker – and Woody Allen his pimp – in his new film. He talks to Tara Brady about giving screen time to a character who can do anything with his hands

The premise of the latest film from the Dardennes is a little trite, but the execution is as assured as ever

Few actors create characters that unnerve as much as Michael Fassbender, and in person he has an intensity that never quite fades. He talks method acting, metal music and making ‘Macbeth’

Competition is fierce on the literary festival circuit and on the evidence of last weekend Cúirt needs to do more to set itself apart

Mexican film-maker Alfonso Cuarón is delighted about the warm reception for his gripping space yarn. And what about the criticism of its supposed scientific inaccuracies? ‘It’s not a documentary,’ he shrugs

Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos spills the beans on the quartet’s stellar fourth album, his Irish literary inspiration and why his band will never be the showbiz types