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Funny, bittersweet, heartbreaking and beautiful, Masaan explores its colourful world and its inhabitants' lives with utmost imagination and deftness. Wonderfully balancing the struggles and discoveries of...

A predictably towering performance from Michael Fassbender is excellently supported by Marion Cotillard, and a who’s who cast of the best British actors working today. Biblical in scale, Macbeth is a huge...

A simple story well told, Lamb is a startlingly assured debut feature from writer-director Yaled Zeleke which overcomes the traditional “kids and animals” issue to deliver a warm-hearted and bittersweet...

A brave central performance from Hye-rim Moon goes a small way towards redeeming the broad feeling of frustration left by Su-won Shin’s Madonna. With shades of Almodóvar’s Talk to Her, an interesting...

It seems somewhat condescending to you, the reader, to begin this article with something as basic as "What IS the Cannes Film Festival?" - yet this isn't an entirely stupid question. The Festival means...

This film was previously reviewed in June 2022 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave (Heojil kyolshim) follows a murder investigation headed by the highly...

This film was previously reviewed in June 2022 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Baz Luhrmann’s spectacular, bedazzled musical biopic, Elvis, follows the life and career of actor and musician...

This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes coverage. François Ozon’s touching film Everything Went Fine (Tout S'est Bien Passé) begins just after 85-year-old André (André...

This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. A film that’s told in twelve parts, as well as a prologue and an epilogue, Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person...

This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Andrea Arnold’s newest film, Cow, documents the daily lives of two cows, Luma and her recently born calf whose...

This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Julia Ducournau, French director of the bloody 2016 masterpiece, Raw, graces Cannes Film Festival once more with...

This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. Green and red. Leos Carax’s rock opera, Annette, features the self-proclaimed “Ape of God” Henry McHenry...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. Céline Sciamma has always excelled at bringing magic to the screen – even more so in her latest feature Petite Maman...

This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. One of Cannes Film Festival’s most anticipated films, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, is a love letter to...

Inspired by author Haruki Murakami’s short story of the same title, writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Cannes Best Screenplay winner Drive My Car is an avant-garde metatextual curation interweaving...