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Bob Trevino Likes It review – Barbie Ferreira lovebombs us all in quirk-fuelled comedy

Ferreira is charm personified in this drama about a young woman who becomes friends with a man who has the same name as her louse of a father

When the Light Breaks review – two students grieve one boyfriend in Icelandic heartbreaker

Elín Hall gives a quietly intense performance as a young woman privately grieving her secret boyfriend’s untimely death

TV tonight: a fun reboot of early 00s reality show Faking It

Channel 5 revives the series with a luxury estate agent who becomes a northern market trader. Plus: one of the worst disasters in NHS history. Here’s what to watch this evening

Alpha review – Julia Ducournau’s disjointed body horror is an absolute gamma

The winner of the Palme d’Or for Titane delivers a true turkey: the tonally inept tale of a girl with a dodgy tattoo and a disease that turns people to marble

Highest 2 Lowest review – Spike Lee and Denzel Washington remake Kurosawa in fine style

Akira Kurosawa’s downbeat noir High and Low is retooled with Washington on magnificent form as a record producer whose godson is kidnapped by mistake

From Coogler to Cruise: the Hollywood heroes saving cinema

With concerns remaining over the theatrical experience, some key figures have been working hard at ensuring it survives

The Pitt’s breakout star Shabana Azeez loves a confronting role: ‘We want victims to be perfect’

After acclaim in the bushland horror Birdeater, the Adelaide actor is now a fan favourite in this year’s biggest (and weepiest) drama. It’s been a whirlwind – and she’s loving every second

‘Cinema doesn’t ship that way’: Wes Anderson mocks Donald Trump’s film tariff plans in Cannes

While acknowledging he is ‘not an expert in that area of economics’, the director criticised Trump’s announcement of a 100% tariff on films ‘from foreign lands’

‘I will never stop’: Tom Cruise wants to make movies into his 100s. Why not his 1,000s?

Cinema’s sprightliest senior citizen is not one to give in to obstacles easily and looks set to outpace time’s wingèd chariot for a good while yet

Dogma 25 announced at Cannes, as directors launch ‘cultural uprising’

A new collective seeks to reinvigorate cinema in the mould of Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme 95 movement, with a 10-point manifesto opposed to the internet

‘Greatest teen movie ever’: why Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging is my feelgood movie

The latest in an ongoing series of writers highlighting their go-to mood-lifting movies looks back at the 2008 Eastbourne-set teen comedy

Echo of You review – expressive documentary hears from grieving life partners

Zara Zerny’s lucid and compassionate study gathers moving, candid interviews with bereaved partners remembering their lost loves

Spring Night review – elliptical tale of Korean lovers is study of elemental passion

After meeting at a wedding, Su-hwan and Yeong-gyeong plunge into a desperate relationship fuelled by alcohol, and powered by tremendous performances

‘There is no cure for grief’: Tim Roth on losing his son after making a film about bereavement

The star had just finished shooting Poison, about parents torn apart by grief, when his own son died. He remembers their last days together – and what truths he learned from the darkly moving film

The Love That Remains review – startling tragicomic portrait of a fractured family

Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason examines a broken marriage through stunning imagery and quirky fantasy visions, but his new comic tone undermines the pain

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