No Winter Holidays review – haunting portrait of female companionship in Nepal’s frozen highlands
Two widows of the same man remain behind in an abandoned mountain village in Rajan Kathet and Sunir Pandey’s visually arresting documentary
We’re Nothing at All review – bus explosion sets off Hong Kong drama of grief, prejudice and queer identity
A disaster on Valentine’s Day sets off a sprawling tale of hidden lives and social fault lines in director Herman Yau’s ambitious ensemble drama
Kraken review – fjord-based rampage is monster movie with environmental message
Underwater beastie shows discerning moral judgment when picking off victims in this fun Norwegian action film
The Birthday Party review – grimly compulsive unhappy occasion in deepest France
Cannes film festival: This could be better paced but the crisis which descends on an up-against-it dairy farm is delivered by some very memorable goons
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