Life Could Be a Dream review – a powerful, polished Australian film about domestic abuse
Director Jasmin Tarasin weaves richly layered moments between mother and son – and darker flashbacks to what they left behind
Nagi Notes review – clear, calm light shed on criss-crossed family passions
Cannes film festival: Set in a beautifully filmed provincial Japanese town, what could have been a soapy drama is told with poetic restraint and subtlety by Kôji Fukada
Normal review – Fargo meets The Firm in cheerfully weird Bob Odenkirk small-town thriller
Odenkirk plays a washed-up sheriff whose arrival in an eerily wholesome Minnesota town sets off a chain of violence, corruption and savage Ben Wheatley shootouts
Northern Soul: Still Burning review – thumping celebration of the legendary underground club scene
Centred around the Wigan Casino and its amphetamine-fuelled all-nighters, this is a passionate portrait of a unique cultural moment and its obsessive high-kicking fans
Killer Whale review – watery peril horror turns captive orca into angry BFF-threatener
When two BBFs on vacay decide to break into a water park with a dishy guy, there are a limited number of jump scares waiting for them
The Electric Kiss review – belle époque seance comedy struggles to summon real magic
Cannes film festival: Pierre Salvadori’s whimsical period farce about a fake medium and a grief-stricken painter has charm and elegance, but its romantic fantasy never quite ignites
Chasing Utopia review – renegade Google exec Mo Gawdat searches for ethical AI in alarming insider warning
Delivering much information about the scale of what’s coming, documentary also follows Gawdat’s campaign to get the programs with empathy
Nobu review – story of obsession and loss that lies behind the luxury sushi empire
This affectionate portrait of chef Nobuyuki Matsuhisa finds surprising emotional depth beneath the glossy surface of the Nobu brand – with a cameo from Robert De Niro
Ciao UFO review – Hong Kong tear-jerker is less ET than time-hopping chronicle of housing estate kids
In 1985, four working-class characters are bonded for ever by a strange sighting in this sentimental saga that tracks their lives into adulthood
Sunset Boulevard: The Backstage Cut review – does Norma Desmond really need another closeup?
Aside from a brief pre-shoot ‘discussion’, this take on Billy Wilder’s classic 1950 film has little to offer – despite some fine performances
Sailm nan Daoine (Psalms of the People) review – one man’s quest to keep Gaelic psalm singing alive
Jack Archer’s gentle film follows the immensely likable Rob MacNeacail as he journeys across Scotland and Ireland in a bid to save these traditional songs of people and place
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo review – haunting queer fable burns with love and menace
Diego Céspedes’s striking debut mixes magic realism and melodrama in a tender tale of an LGBTQ+ community facing fear and superstition in 1980s Chile
Killer on the Air review – radio call-in hostage thriller puts moral dilemma to tough-love show host
An aggrieved caller puts the host of Sarah Cares to the test, examining the limits of her ideas by threatening to kill her husband’s lover
Queer as Punk review – joyous portrait of Malaysian LGBTQ+ rebels making noise
Yihwen Chen’s warm and galvanising documentary follows queer punk band Shh…Diam! as they battle discrimination with humour and raw energy
My Father’s Diaries review – haunting home-video excavates trauma of Srebrenica massacre
Ado Hasanović’s moving documentary transforms footage filmed during the Bosnian war into a devastating portrait of memory, survival and inherited grief