Julie Keeps Quiet review – a tense volley of dysfunction at tennis academy

A star player at an elite tennis school decides to stay silent when the head coach is suspended in Leonardo Van Dijl’s absorbing movie of things unsaid and subjects avoided

Scénarios review – Jean-Luc Godard collage is his final love letter to cinema

Completed just before his assisted death, the French New Wave master director talks through his ideas as illustrated in his hand-drawn scrapbook

The Surfer review – beach bum Nic Cage surfs a high tide of toxic masculinity

An office drone must suffer the machismo of an Australian coastal town in this barmy, low-budget thriller about a would-be wave-chaser

Oh, Canada review – Paul Schrader looks north as Richard Gere’s draft dodger reveals all

A dying director who fled from the US to Canada agrees to make a confessional film in Schrader’s fragmented and anticlimactic story

Kinds of Kindness review – sex, death and Emma Stone in Lanthimos’s disturbing triptych

Yorgos Lanthimos reinforces how the universe keeps on doing the same awful things with a multistranded yarn starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Jesse Plemons

Three Kilometres to the End of the World review – brutal self-denial in deepest Romania

A drama of despair plays out in a remote village, as a debt-ridden father is mortified to discover his son is gay

Francis Ford Coppola: US politics is at ‘the point where we might lose our republic’

Speaking at Cannes, the director says his reworking of ancient Rome’s Catiline conspiracy has become ever more prescient

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point review – charming hometown study is extended family party

There isn’t much plot in Tyler Taormina’s very warm and rich movie about one huge family’s festivities, but it’s engrossing, exalted even

‘Exhausting and extremely dangerous’: Mohammad Rasoulof on his escape from Iran

Exclusive: The director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig details how he discarded electronic devices and fled over the mountains on foot after authorities sentenced him to eight years in prison and flogging

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In review – frenetic actioner in infamous Kowloon neighbourhood

The choreography is impressive as people are hurled through walls, thrown off rooftops and otherwise beaten to a pulp, but the editing is frenetic and the characters cartoonish

‘Bafflingly shallow’ or ‘staggeringly ambitious’? Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis splits critics

Coppola’s passion project screens at Cannes film festival to seven-minute standing ovation, but reviews have been polarising

Megalopolis review – Coppola’s passion project is megabloated and megaboring

Francis Ford Coppola’s question – can the US empire last forever? – may be valid but flashes of humour cannot rescue this conspiracy thriller from awful acting and dull effects

An Unfinished Film review – moving and mysterious movie about China’s Covid crisis

Lou Ye’s docu-realist film starts as sophisticated comedy, morphs from looking like a zombie apocalypse to intimate drama, and evolves into a tribute to how a nation handled trauma

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl review – Rungano Nyoni’s strange, intense tale of sexual abuse

Nyoni uses unsettlingly playful surrealism in this account of a malign uncle and the family mythmaking that effaces his crimes

The Girl With the Needle review – horrific drama based on Denmark’s 1921 baby-killer case

Loosely based on fact, Magnus van Horn’s fictionalised true crime nightmare leaves you with a shiver of pure fear