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

‘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’

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

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

The Phoenician Scheme review – Mia Threapleton shines in Wes Anderson’s muted new confection

Benicio Del Toro and Michael Cera are essentially wingmen to Kate Winslet’s daughter, making a breakthrough big screen turn in Anderson’s enjoyable yet airless ensemble romp

My Father’s Shadow review – subtle and intelligent coming-of-age tale set in 1993 Nigeria

British-Nigerian film-maker Akinola Davies Jr makes a strong directorial debut with this deft and intriguing tale of an absent father briefly reunited with his two young sons

Kevin Spacey to be celebrated at Cannes’ Better World gala

Actor will receive lifetime achievement award on Tuesday for his ‘enduring impact on cinema and the arts’ and ‘decades of artistic brilliance’

Pillion review – 50 shades of BDSM Wallace and Gromit in brilliant Bromley biker romance

Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling play unlikely lovers in this sweet and extremely revealing first-time drama from Harry Lighton, adapted from Adam Mars-Jones’ Box Hill

‘Extreme anxiety and extreme depression’: Jennifer Lawrence says she felt ‘like an alien’ as a new mother

The actor and co-star Robert Pattinson have each spoken about their experiences of early parenthood ahead of the premiere of Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love

Urchin review – Harris Dickinson’s homelessness drama is a terrific directorial debut

The Triangle of Sadness and Babygirl actor has made a strong, singular and sometimes surreal first film behind the camera, with a superb central turn from Frank Dillane

Die My Love review – Jennifer Lawrence excels in intensely sensual study of a woman in meltdown

Lawrence excels as a woman whose bipolar disorder is exacerbated by husband Robert Pattinson’s infidelity, with super-strength direction from Lynne Ramsay

‘Fight back and don’t let them win’: actor Pedro Pascal decries Trump’s attacks on artists

Comments at Cannes come after US president’s social media posts against Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift

The Chronology of Water review – Kristen Stewart makes a traumatic splash with directorial debut

Imogen Poots takes the lead in Stewart’s choppy but compelling adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir of abuse and sexual uncertainty

Eddington review – Ari Aster’s tedious Covid western masks drama and mutes his stars

Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler have little to work with in this disappointing dud from the Hereditary and Midsommar director