Both Sides of the Blade review – Claire Denis’s love triangle thriller lacks chemistry
Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon are both intense, except when they’re together, in a romantic drama weighed down by backstory
The Damned Don’t Cry review – mournful portrait of colonial tension
Fyzal Boulifa explores the decisions forced on a poverty-stricken Moroccan family in this vivid and powerful drama
Identification of a Woman review – Michelangelo Antonioni’s midlife crisis of a movie
Antonioni’s 1982 film, in which a sexually restless middle-aged film-maker auditions young women, feels dated but has pleasing flourishes
Love Life review – tangled and tragic human drama about chaotic life twists
Japanese director Kôji Fukada has crafted a richly painful and quietly comic human drama
Saloum review – slick gangster horror in wild west Africa
Director Jean Luc Herbulot dynamically weaves supernatural mystery into this gritty crime caper to produce a distinct and charismatic thrill ride
Amanda review – comic crises in the life of an entitled twentysomething
A wealthy young woman, friendless and lost after studying abroad, sets about recovering an old friendship she thinks she once had
Other People’s Children review – a heartfelt modern love triangle
This sweet, sad drama sees a teacher keen to be a mother bonding with her new boyfriend’s daughter, while dealing with the constant presence of his ex
Argentina 1985 review – rousingly-acted junta trial dramatisation
Ricardo Darin anchors this courtroom drama as the chief prosecutor bringing military leaders to justice for human rights abuse
Official Competition review – Penélope Cruz on fire in delicious movie industry satire
Cruz’s eccentric director employs unorthodox techniques to manage lead actors – and polar opposites – Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez
Queen of Glory review – gloriously low-key comedy of immigrant life
The trials of a Ghanaian-American woman and her family never overpower the deft emotional savviness of this low-budget tale
Her Way review – portrait of a sex worker shreds cinema’s cliches
Laure Calamy of Call My Agent! fame is mesmerising as a sex worker of a certain age in Cécile Ducrocq’s perceptive and humane feature debut
Anaïs in Love review – Anaïs Demoustier intoxicates in comic French love triangle
Cinema’s latest irresistible chaotic femme, Demoustier is perfectly cast in first-time writer-director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s sparkling romance
Mama’s Affair review – star vehicle for Cantopop idols Mirror is for boyband fans only
Music-biz drama featuring Hong Kong pop stars Keung To and Jer Lau bids for cross-generational appeal but gets lost in cliches
Anaïs in Love review – cerebral eroticism and summery thrills in French adultery farce
Charming ‘bulldozer’ Anaïs sprints after emotional stimulants in breezy tale of graduate student who seduces her publisher’s partner
Special Delivery review – noirish bruiser is Fast and Furious in South Korea
Parasite’s Park So-dam stars as an elite courier ferrying fugitives in an action thriller packed with dangerous driving