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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
Paper Tiger review – Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson reunite for heavyweight James Gray saga
Cannes film festival: The Marriage Story stars team up with Miles Teller for this sombre and impressive story of shady dealings in 80s New York
‘They lost a historic opportunity’: Ken Loach laments Your Party infighting
Film-maker and longtime Corbyn ally says ‘poor behaviour’ squandered chance to unite the left in fight against far right
The Beloved review – Javier Bardem turns in a career-scariest performance
Cannes film festival: This tremendously alarming drama from Rodrigo Sorogoyen is a meditation on male auteurs entirely without sentimentality
John Lennon: The Last Interview review – Soderbergh imagines there’s no people with bland AI clipshow
Cannes film festival: Succession of pointless AI-generated snippets does nothing for film about the artist’s final interview, which took place on the day of his murder
Harlem Renaissance documentary finally gets global premiere 50 years after cameras rolled
Once Upon a Time in Harlem, completed by relatives of William Greaves after his death, showcased at Cannes
Clarissa review – Sophie Okonedo mesmeric as Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway decamps to Nigeria
Cannes film festival: Commanding performances and a great musical score underpin this seductive drama about regret, memory and young love
La Gradiva review – stunning coming-of-age story of young love and sexual tension
Cannes film festival: Marine Atlan’s debut film follows a group of French high-school kids and their long-suffering teacher on a visit to Pompeii and Naples
Propeller One-Way Night Coach review – John Travolta family plane fantasy is a short-haul joyride
Cannes film festival: Travolta directs and narrates this 60-minute adaptation of his own short story about a boy who dreams of being a pilot
‘It looked like Star Wars on Earth’: the making of Top Gun at 40
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and co-writer Jack Epps discuss how the smash hit action drama came to be, from Tom Cruise vomiting on himself to ruling the box office
From Normal to Ania Magliano: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Bob Odenkirk’s a put-upon lawman in Ben Wheatley’s latest, and the SNL UK star is back out on tour
Gentle Monster review – disquieting drama about two women facing the truth about the men they love
Cannes film festival: Léa Seydoux is a wife and mother whose life unravels when police arrive to quiz her husband; Jella Haase is a detective dealing with her ailing father’s misdeeds
Cantona review – Beckham and Ferguson keen defenders as Eric gnomically quotes Baudelaire
Cannes film festival: This lively documentary about everyone’s favourite hot-headed footballer/unlikely Ken Loach star will give more than just fans a kick
‘Extremely cruel and tragic’: Iranian director Asghar Farhadi speaks out against state violence and the war
The film-maker, who won the Grand Prix for A Hero in 2021, condemned both the killing of protesters and the conflict’s bombing campaigns during a Cannes press conference
In the Grey review – Guy Ritchie’s bizarrely buried action caper is a blast
There’s a great deal of fun to be had in the director’s sly and surprisingly serious thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Henry Cavill and Eiza González