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I Love Boosters review – Boots Riley’s absurdist shoplifting comedy is a mixed bag

The Sorry to Bother You director’s brash and outrageously funny new film, led by Keke Palmer, can be a little too scattershot to make an impact

Tycoon review – impressive debut shows dystopian future-LA in the grip of a food-distributing megacorp

Set against the 2028 Olympics, Charlotte Zhang’s beautifully attentive debut follows two Latino men as they game the system of state-sanctioned racial violence

Queer art, bowler hats and an Annie Hall script: inside Diane Keaton’s archive as treasures go on sale

New exhibition opens the ‘file cabinet’ of the late actor’s mind, spotlighting her self-made collages and iconic men’s suits

A Few Feet Away review – Buenos Aires slacker tries to balance app life and real sex in vivid hookup drama

Tadeo Pestaña Caro’s debut feature trails a young man’s compulsive screen time and his panic when faced with real intimacy

True North review – students take stand against racism in highly charged account of protest in 60s Canada

Interviews and archive material are elegantly stitched together in this look at a huge student uprising in 1969 Quebec

Fjord review – Cristian Mungiu at sea with strange child abuse drama starring Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan

Cannes film festival: The Palme laureate here makes a misstep with an odd, disquieting film that leaves too many issues unresolved

The Unknown review – Léa Seydoux gets invaded in uncanny and bizarre body-swap horror

Cannes film festival: A man is terrified to wake up in Seydoux’s body in this metempsychotic mystery film about gender identity

Hope review – non-stop gonzo alien battling is top-quality entertainment

Cannes film festival: Na Hong-jin’s melee of running, chasing and shouting at the angry invaders is uproarious fun, mixing digital work with old-school spectacle

‘The film humanised Russians at a time when Rambo was killing them’: how we made Letter to Brezhnev

‘All of Kirkby turned out for the premiere – many of them had been extras. And 500 people crammed into my mum’s council house for a party. It’s still talked about’

By offering all Emilys a free medium Coke per ticket, Showcase Cinemas prove their commitment to drama

Showcase Cinemas is offering a medium Coca-Cola to anyone called Emily who goes to see new romcom Finding Emily this weekend. But what if 35,000 thirsty Emilys turn up?

Tribe review – compelling, unsettling search for a lost sect in the California mountains

Dan Asma’s impressive debut feature follows a retired professor, played by the director himself, whose research leads him to Lovecraftian terrors

The return of Westworld is perfect timing for the flattery-oriented age of AI

Now that real life has caught up with science fiction, the imminent danger isn’t malfunctioning cowboys, it’s the robots convincing us that we’re great and everything is totally fine

Woken review – shonky post-apocalyptic horror sends an amnesiac into the plague zone

The acting is fine and the imagery brooding, but this tepid sci-fi – all creepy neighbours, hazmat squads and crustacean-faced infected – is in thrall to better films

Voidance review – very British sci-fi movie is like Miss Marple with a space blaster

There’s plenty of charm in the low-budget inventiveness of this low-budget murder mystery set in a Wetherspoon’s for interstellar truckers

Relentless Memory review – a vital oral history of the plight of the Mapuche people

In Paula Rodríguez’s impressionistic documentary, an academic’s South American travelogue brings the painful story of a proud Indigenous society to life

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  • I Love Boosters review – Boots Riley’s absurdist shoplifting comedy is a mixed bag
  • Tycoon review – impressive debut shows dystopian future-LA in the grip of a food-distributing megacorp
  • Queer art, bowler hats and an Annie Hall script: inside Diane Keaton’s archive as treasures go on sale
  • A Few Feet Away review – Buenos Aires slacker tries to balance app life and real sex in vivid hookup drama
  • True North review – students take stand against racism in highly charged account of protest in 60s Canada
  • Fjord review – Cristian Mungiu at sea with strange child abuse drama starring Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan
  • The Unknown review – Léa Seydoux gets invaded in uncanny and bizarre body-swap horror
  • Hope review – non-stop gonzo alien battling is top-quality entertainment
  • ‘The film humanised Russians at a time when Rambo was killing them’: how we made Letter to Brezhnev
  • By offering all Emilys a free medium Coke per ticket, Showcase Cinemas prove their commitment to drama
  • Tribe review – compelling, unsettling search for a lost sect in the California mountains
  • The return of Westworld is perfect timing for the flattery-oriented age of AI
  • Woken review – shonky post-apocalyptic horror sends an amnesiac into the plague zone
  • Voidance review – very British sci-fi movie is like Miss Marple with a space blaster
  • Relentless Memory review – a vital oral history of the plight of the Mapuche people
  • ‘An orgy of antisemitism is overtaking the west’: Son of Saul’s László Nemes on Hollywood hypocrisy
  • French star Patrick Bruel denies multiple sexual assault allegations
  • Cate Blanchett says #MeToo ‘got killed very quickly’ in Hollywood
  • Garance review – Adèle Exarchopoulos gives it her all in ripe but flimsy portrait of alcohol addiction
  • Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean review – a dashing retrospective for a cinematic titan
  • France’s top film producer says it will blacklist figures who petitioned against rightwing billionaire
  • Adam Driver saving response to Lena Dunham allegations ‘for my book’
  • Moulin review – László Nemes’s resistance hero drama is chilling, stirring and surprisingly conventional
  • You’re supposed to be quiet in the cinema. So why are the snacks so loud?
  • Paper Tiger review – Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson reunite for heavyweight James Gray saga
  • ‘They lost a historic opportunity’: Ken Loach laments Your Party infighting
  • The Beloved review – Javier Bardem turns in a career-scariest performance
  • John Lennon: The Last Interview review – Soderbergh imagines there’s no people with bland AI clipshow
  • Harlem Renaissance documentary finally gets global premiere 50 years after cameras rolled
  • Clarissa review – Sophie Okonedo mesmeric as Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway decamps to Nigeria

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