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Butterfly Jam review – Barry Keoghan can’t save this New Jersey misstep

Cannes film festival: The Irish actor plays a disillusioned Circassian chef with a knack with animals in Kantemir Balagov’s clunky third film

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

The Devil Wears Prada sold me the journalism fantasy. The sequel captures the unglamorous reality

I don’t know a single journalist my age who hasn’t ricocheted around the rapidly shrinking media industry, through multiple buyouts, redundancies and pivots to video

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

How Michael Jackson’s tarnished image is being cannily rehabilitated

A new biopic has contributed to an atmosphere that casts the late singer as a profoundly damaged figure who is more victim than victimiser

‘It screws with your mind’: Jennie Garth on 90210 fame in her 20s – and speeding up in her 50s

She shot to fame as a teenager, but always felt like an outsider in Hollywood. Now she has started a podcast and written a memoir for women who find themselves at a standstill

Carla Simón: ‘In Spain people use words like shame and blame. But my parents just had bad luck‘

The rising star of Spanish cinema discusses being orphaned at six, new feature Romería and why she always works with children

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

Rush hour on Air Force one as Melania director Brett Ratner joins Trump China trip

Filmmaker who was long on the outer in Hollywood over #MeToo allegations will scout locations for Rush Hour 4, according to spokeswoman

Cannes is a beautiful, gruelling circus. I wouldn’t quit it for anything

The festival is a celebration of cinema and a frantic trade show all at once. After 25 years, I can’t help but go back, says critic Agnès Poirier

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

Film industry cannot fight rise of artificial intelligence, says Demi Moore

US actor urges her peers to work with the technology, but stresses it can never replace ‘true art’ created by humans

French film industry at risk from the far right, say actors and directors

Juliette Binoche joins 600 leading figures to warn against a ‘fascist takeover of the collective imagination’

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