Bitter Christmas review – grief, loss and artistic betrayal in Almodóvar’s film within a film
Cannes film festival: Spaniard’s latest life-v-art auto-metafiction feels slightly muddled as he directs a director directing a director
Minotaur review – Andrei Zvyagintsev’s scorching noir intrigue amid the Ukraine war
Cannes film festival: The great Russian director’s first film for almost a decade is tremendous drama following the ill-deeds of a mini-oligarch who comes up with a toxic new way to feed Russia’s war machine
Her Private Hell review – Nicolas Winding Refn’s shapeshifting fantasia is a dreamy swirl of strangeness
Cannes film festival: Refn’s film eludes definition as it moves through time and space, from doomy reality to strange dream worlds populated by quasi-Lynchian characters
Clint Eastwood cannon from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly traced to Spanish museum
Enthusiasts track down weapon used to fell fleeing Eli Wallach amid preparations for 60th anniversary of film’s release
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu review – helmeted hero tangles with hateful Hutts in decent feature outing
The badass bounty hunter and his little green friend take on the Empire and Jabba the Hutt’s family in this solid enough addition to the ever-expanding universe
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
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
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
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
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