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Parallel Tales review – Isabelle Huppert pens furtive sexual fantasy for Vincent Cassel in Asghar Farhadi’s latest

Cannes film festival: Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi returns to France with this intriguing middleweight meta-drama featuring a cameo from Catherine Deneuve

Fatherland review – Sandra Hüller brings a bayonet of intelligence to Paweł Pawlikowski’s taut return

Cannes film festival: Hanns Zischler stars as Thomas Mann on his 1949 tour of Germany, contending with political barbs, personal tragedy and his daughter, played by an extraordinary Hüller

Hannah Einbinder: cost of not speaking out on Palestine is greater than losing career

Hacks star spoke at Cannes about fallout from pro-Palestine comments and joining a tradition of Jewish allies

Please stop making music biopics. We need a break from this tired genre that is essentially expensive karaoke

With the release of Michael and not one but four Beatles feature films under way, I am once again calling for a moratorium on these films (with one exception)

‘It’s a distraction-free zone’: Gen Z on why they love going to the movies

Filmgoers born after 1997 are reviving cinemas’ hopes of survival. They tell us about the social experience where ‘there’s absolutely no commitment to chat’

Is God Is review – fiery revenge thriller flies from stage to screen

There are echoes of both Kill Bill and Thelma & Louise in Aleshea Harris’s sharply told tale of sisters heading to kill their father

Top Gun review – now impossible to view Tom Cruise’s testosterone-swamped film without affection

This gave a young Cruise entry into the A-list, as the brilliant, courageous rule-breaking pilot, frenemy of Val Kilmer and in love with Kelly McGillis

Post your questions for Tom Hanks and the cast of Toy Story 5

Tim Allen, Joan Cusack and Greta Lee join Hanks to answer your enquiries about the forthcoming animation and its previous instalments

Spit, vomit and a banned baby: Cannes controversies – ranked!

For every standing ovation there’s a riotous backlash – the film festival’s history is littered with boos, protests, furious rows and career-defining disasters

Fit for a king: Ian McKellen to play Lear at newly rebuilt Yard theatre in east London

Role marks a major return for the actor after falling off the stage in 2024 and is a coup for the forward-thinking theatre

Space Jam review – Michael Jordan’s 90s merch-hocking basketball blockbuster rises again

The Jordan-fronted live-action/cartoon hybrid is 30 years old – and with its R Kelly soundtrack, it feels it. Cue Seinfeld’s Wayne Knight to rescue it for a second time

Anderson juices up the vibes for Dior with spotlight on Hollywood

Designer suggests decision to stage show in Los Angeles is part of strategy to deepen label’s cinema presence

‘There are no rules’: spotlight on Gossip Goblin as AI film-making enters new era

Defying criticisms of ‘slop’ and ‘theft’, the growing culture of AI-powered creativity is attracting interest from Hollywood

‘I never thought people might feel threatened by us’: YouTuber Curry Barker on his big horror ascent

The 26-year-old has received rave reviews for his micro-budget horror Obsession, support from Ari Aster and control of a Texas Chain Saw Massacre remake

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma review – Gillian Anderson superb in queer slasher spectacular

Cannes film festival: Young indie film-maker Kris tracks down Anderson’s Final Girl for a remake of a beloved horror, to find fantasy and reality collapsed

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  • Parallel Tales review – Isabelle Huppert pens furtive sexual fantasy for Vincent Cassel in Asghar Farhadi’s latest
  • Fatherland review – Sandra Hüller brings a bayonet of intelligence to Paweł Pawlikowski’s taut return
  • Hannah Einbinder: cost of not speaking out on Palestine is greater than losing career
  • Please stop making music biopics. We need a break from this tired genre that is essentially expensive karaoke
  • ‘It’s a distraction-free zone’: Gen Z on why they love going to the movies
  • Is God Is review – fiery revenge thriller flies from stage to screen
  • Top Gun review – now impossible to view Tom Cruise’s testosterone-swamped film without affection
  • Post your questions for Tom Hanks and the cast of Toy Story 5
  • Spit, vomit and a banned baby: Cannes controversies – ranked!
  • Fit for a king: Ian McKellen to play Lear at newly rebuilt Yard theatre in east London
  • Space Jam review – Michael Jordan’s 90s merch-hocking basketball blockbuster rises again
  • Anderson juices up the vibes for Dior with spotlight on Hollywood
  • ‘I never thought people might feel threatened by us’: YouTuber Curry Barker on his big horror ascent
  • ‘There are no rules’: spotlight on Gossip Goblin as AI film-making enters new era
  • Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma review – Gillian Anderson superb in queer slasher spectacular
  • The Christophers review – Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel are the double act of the year
  • ‘There was a lot of addiction and trauma in my family’: why Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon plays a perfect Judy Garland
  • LifeHack review – old-school heist movie updated for the meme age
  • ‘Oh my God, did my dad and I fight’: Olivia Colman on triggers, trans rights and sexual regret
  • A Woman’s Life review – a breezy comedy of midlife crisis and same-sex affair
  • Butterfly Jam review – Barry Keoghan can’t save this New Jersey misstep
  • Life Could Be a Dream review – a powerful, polished Australian film about domestic abuse
  • The Devil Wears Prada sold me the journalism fantasy. The sequel captures the unglamorous reality
  • Nagi Notes review – clear, calm light shed on criss-crossed family passions
  • How Michael Jackson’s tarnished image is being cannily rehabilitated
  • ‘It screws with your mind’: Jennie Garth on 90210 fame in her 20s – and speeding up in her 50s
  • Carla Simón: ‘In Spain people use words like shame and blame. But my parents just had bad luck‘
  • Normal review – Fargo meets The Firm in cheerfully weird Bob Odenkirk small-town thriller
  • Northern Soul: Still Burning review – thumping celebration of the legendary underground club scene
  • Killer Whale review – watery peril horror turns captive orca into angry BFF-threatener

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