The Dreamed Adventure review – beautiful but opaque Bulgarian tale of digging up the past
Cannes film festival: Valeska Grisebach’s complex drama tracks an archaeologist whose mountain dig is interrupted by an old friend with rather dirtier hands
Coward review – soldiers find escapism and romance in wartime theatrical troupe
Cannes film festival: Lukas Dhont’s first world war-set gay romance is a heartfelt examination of cowardice and lives lived in secret amid the brutality of battle
Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l’Échafaud review – harmonic openness for Louis Malle’s haunting noir thriller
The trumpeter’s improvised soundtrack for the new wave director’s 1957 film still glows with sensuality, tension and nocturnal beauty in this lavish reissue
Ladies First review – Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike come last in one-joke Netflix comedy
A misogynist is made to learn the error of his ways in this painfully dated and embarrassingly star-packed sexism comedy
End of the Rainbow review – Jinkx Monsoon’s Judy Garland could be the talk of the town
The Drag Race star brings nuance to the vocals and has a hoot with a frisky script but this bio-drama is too limited and ultimately cramps her style
The Black Ball review – the complicated secrets of gay sexuality in Spain are brilliantly told
Cannes film festival: Threading together three stories from distinct eras of Spanish life, this narrative triptych is superlatively acted and beautifully shot
Passenger review – generic jumpscare horror offers bumpy journey to nowhere
A demonic entity attaches itself to travellers on the road in this competenelty directed but hopelessly indistinctive scare-free misfire
Finding Emily review – warm-hearted gen Z campus romcom is impossible to hate
A Mancunian singer-songwriter becomes a viral divisive figure while trying to track down a girl called Emily
Eagles of the Republic review – seductive thriller of corruption and compromise in post-Mubarak Egypt
The third film in Tarik Saleh’s ‘Cairo trilogy’ is a about a washed-up movie star who is bullied into starring in government propaganda
Hen review – plucky chicken beats the odds in weirdly uplifting survival story
In a feat of cinematic mystery and skill György Pálfi coaxes a tour de force from his poultry cast in this parable of animal and human interrelations
Notre Salut review – a novelistic telling of day-to-day life in Nazi-occupied France
Cannes film festival: Swann Arlaud is excellent as Henri Marre, the director’s great-grandfather, as he finagles his way into a job at the Vichy ministry of labour
Diabolic review – Mormon-country horror takes ayahuasca down to the creepy cellar
Underground doors and regression therapy – it sounds like a can’t miss for the genre, but the knockout blow is never delivered
The Man I Love review – Rami Malek needs a lighter touch in Ira Sachs’ 80s Aids drama
Cannes film festival: Sachs’ film about an HIV-positive actor in the homophobic Reagan-era 80s is well-intended, but Malek’s mannered performance is hard to love
Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass review – furry foes out of their depth in candy-coated Chinese adventure
Cat and mouse are transported to a quasi-medieval China in this luridly bright animation that has none of the inventiveness of the Hanna-Barbera originals
The Balloonists review – divas and disasters in tale of first round-the-world hot-air balloon flight
Polite documentary about Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, who faced off much wealthier rivals Richard Branson and Steve Fossett in the race to circumnavigate the globe