Andrey Zvyagintsev delivers a chilling thriller set in provincial Russia during the Ukraine war, but the political allegory can feel overdone

Cristian Mungiu’s tale confirms him as one of cinema’s sharpest moral observers

Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver star in latest drama from James Gray

Eventually the Spanish auteur pulls the film’s threads together into a sharp and unexpectedly brilliant punchline

Cannes likes its guests to remain tight-lipped on political issues. Try telling that to Pedro Almodóvar. And everyone else

Cat and mouse rivals are pushed aside for an assortment of flimsily sketched newcomers who absorb most of the screen time

Clucking heroine of György Pálfi’s compelling tale an unlikely emblem of ordinary existence under late-capitalist criminality

Fashioned in the anarchic style of Rick and Morty, the film’s takedown of cliches keeps Cannes laughing

Michael Fassbender plays a distractingly artificial CGI alien. It’s fun. But make the fun stop

Gendered prudishness that governs 13 Going on 30 gives way to unsettling self-examination and an intriguing gumshoe plot

Adam Driver responds to Lena Dunham’s explosive allegations and Michael Fassbender returns to acting as a day job

Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of May 15th, 2026

The star of Normal was in his 50s when Breaking Bad made him a household name. ‘It’s better that way,’ he says

Writer-director doesn’t name the infection, but leaves little doubt that the spectre spooking the Chilean desert is the Aids crisis

Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel generate a tense and witty dynamic