All articles by Tim Grierson, Senior US Critic
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Reviews‘Karate Kid: Legends’ review: Franchise re-boot fails to land a punch
Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio unite for UK director Jonathan Entwhistle, but even they can’t kick life into the formula
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Reviews‘Honey Don’t’ review: Margaret Qualley plays a PI in Ethan Coen’s slight California comedy
Qualley brings some grit to her gumshoe, even if the road is uneven
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Reviews‘The Mastermind’ review: Kelly Reichardt’s sombre slice of 1970s Americana stars Josh O’Connor
The actor plays a down-at-heel failed art thief in the director’s Competition entry
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Reviews‘The Six Billion Dollar Man’ review: Julian Assange is the ultimate whistleblower in Eugene Jarecki doc
Director uses divisive WikiLeaks founder to explore the wider freedom of the press
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Reviews‘Sentimental Value’ review: Renate Reinsve and Joachim Trier reunite for moving family drama
Trier’s third picture to screen in Cannes Competition co-stars Stellan Skarsgard
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Reviews‘Highest 2 Lowest’ review: Spike Lee reteams with Denzel Washington for ambitious crime thriller
Fifth collaboration between director and star reimagines Akira Kurosawa classic ’High And Low’ in modern New York
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Reviews‘Splitsville’ review: Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona play love rivals in partner-swap comedy
Director/star Michael Angelo Covino follows ’The Climb’ with uneven Cannes Premiere title
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Reviews‘Eagles Of The Republic’ review: Tarik Saleh reunites with Fares Fares to end his Cairo trilogy
The satirical film-industry drama follows ’Boy From Heaven’ and ’The Nile Hilton Incident’
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Reviews‘The Richest Woman In The World’ review: Isabelle Huppert drama plays on a notorious real life L’Oréal heir
Laurent Lafitte and Marina Fois also star in Thierry Klifa’s family saga based on the Bettancourt affair
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Reviews’The Phoenician Scheme’ review: Benicio del Toro and Wes Anderson unite for espionage comedy-drama
Mia Threapleton co-headlines alongside an ensemble cast including Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson and Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Reviews‘Die, My Love’ review: Jennifer Lawrence sparks Lynne Ramsay’s portrait of a troubled marriage
Robert Pattinson also stars in Ramsay’s unnerving Competition entry about new parents under extreme stress
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Reviews‘The Chronology Of Water’ review: Kristen Stewart’s debut is an intense deep-dive into the life of a troubled artist
Length and repetition undermines a fiery film anchored by Imogen Poots
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Reviews‘Eddington’ review: Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal face off in Ari Aster’s wan satire
Pandemic-era Competition title falls short in its attempts to skewer right-wing American ideology
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Reviews‘Bring Her Back’ review: Sally Hawkins delivers ‘unspeakable evil’ for the Philippou Brothers
The follow up to ‘Talk To Me’ features the British actor as a malevolent foster mother
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Reviews‘The Plague’ review: Joel Edgerton produces, stars in timely hazing drama
Charlie Polinger’s perceptive debut plays out at an all-boys water polo camp
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Reviews‘Case 137’ review: Lea Drucker anchors Dominik Moll’s police corruption drama
The 2018 Paris Yellow Vests protests provide the backdrop for this controlled procedural
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Reviews‘Thunderbolts*’ review: Marvel ‘still has compelling tales to tell’
Florence Pugh takes centre stage for this mighty tussle in a post-Avengers world
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Reviews‘Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie’: Doc smokes out the history of US stoner duo
Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong reunite to tell their own story
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Reviews‘Sinners’ review: Ryan Coogler, Michael B Jordan draw blood in period vampire thriller
Hailee Steinfeld and Jack O’Connell co-star in horror rampage with a pointedly political bite
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Reviews‘The Amateur’ review: Rami Malek is an unlikely spy in underpowered revenge thriller
Laurence Fishburne co-stars in the latest adaptation of Robert Littell’s novel