All articles by Tim Grierson, Senior US critic
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Reviews‘Coward’ review: Two Belgian soldiers are drawn together amid the horrors of war in Lukas Dhont’s intimate queer drama
Newcomers Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne drive Dhont’s First World War Cannes Competition title
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Reviews‘I’ll Be Gone In June’ review: A German exchange student navigates post-9/11 America in modest, engaging debut
Katharina Rivilis’s Cannes Un Certain Regard title is produced by Wim Wenders
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Reviews‘Diamond’ review: Andy Garcia directs and stars as a noirish detective in disappointingly superficial LA story
Rosemarie Dewitt, Brendan Fraser, Vicky Krieps, Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman also appear in Garcia’s second directorial feature
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Reviews‘Aqui’ review: Ambitious Portuguese J.M. Coetzee adaptation explores the mysteries of childhood
An improvised family navigates uncertainty in Tiago Guedes’s three-hour Cannes Premiere title
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Reviews‘Her Private Hell’ review: Nicolas Winding Refn thriller is exercise in style over substance
Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton star in director’s soulless follow-up to ‘The Neon Demon’
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Reviews‘Jim Queen’ review: Cheeky French animation proves an irreverent celebration of LGBTQ+ culture
Feature premieres in Cannes Midnight strand before opening in France in June
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Reviews‘Paper Tiger’ review: Adam Driver, Miles Teller and Scarlett Johansson drive James Gray’s textured 1980s crime thriller
Gray’s Cannes Competition premiere unfolds in 1980s Queens
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Reviews‘All Of A Sudden’ review: Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto form a magnetic connection in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s rich Paris drama
The film marks the third time that Hamaguchi has played in Cannes Competition
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Reviews‘The Blow’ review: Raw, affecting French debut explores the fault lines in a troubled family
Julien Gaspar-Oliveri’s Critics’ Week title stars Diego Murgia and Romane Fringeli
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Reviews‘The Diary Of A Chambermaid’ review: Radu Jude adapts the 1900 novel into a biting commentary on the modern class divide
Melanie Thierry, Vincent Macaigne and Ana Dumitrascu star in the Romanian director’s restrained Directors’ Fortnight title
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Reviews‘Parallel Tales’ review: Asghar Farhadi drama is convoluted, superficial musing on the interplay between fact and fiction
Farhadi’s French language Cannes Competition title stars Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira and Vincent Cassel
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Reviews‘Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma’ review: Fear and desire are potent bedfellows in Jane Schoenbrun’s twisty satire
Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson star in Schoenbrun’s follow-up to ‘I Saw The TV Glow’
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Reviews‘Ashes’ review: Diego Luna directs a quiet exploration of the Mexican immigrant experience
Luna’s fourth directorial feature stars an impressive Anna Diaz and premieres as a Cannes Special Screening
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Reviews‘Power Ballad’ review: Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas pluck the heartstrings in overly sentimental John Carney drama
Carney follows up ‘Once’ and ‘Sing Street’ with wistful, unconvincing music industry tale
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FeaturesWhy there is growing enthusiasm from young audiences for watching films on celluloid
Young audiences are excited for authentic experiences — good news for venues projecting film from physical prints.
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Reviews‘Michael’ review: Antoine Fuqua’s bland biopic glosses over Michael Jackson’s troubled legacy
Jackson’s nephew Jafaar Jackson stars as The King Of Pop, alongside Colman Domingo and Nia Long
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Reviews‘The Mummy’ review: Lee Cronin follows ‘Evil Dead Rise’ with listless take on the classic monster movie
Jack Reynor and Laia Costa star in Cronin’s gory, derivative possession horror
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Reviews‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ review: Chris Pratt, Anya-Taylor Joy and Jack Black return to voice chaotic animated sequel
Glen Powell, Brie Larson and Donald Glover also join the cast of Nintendo video game animation
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Reviews‘The Drama’ review: Zendaya and Robert Pattinson steer provocative dark comedy
Twisting relationship drama from ‘Dream Scenario’ director Kristoffer Borgli also stars Alana Haim and Mamoudou Athie
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Reviews‘Madfabulous’ review: Wales-set debut proves too pedestrian for its flamboyant real-life subject
Callum Scott Howells plays rebellious aristocrat the Fifth Marquess of Anglesey in this BFI Flare premiere