Between Two Worlds review – Emmanuel Carrère’s jagged, furious tale of low-paid work
Newcomer Hélène Lambert excels alongside Juliette Binoche in this gritty drama about friendship and lies on the breadline
Mother and Son review – moving immigrant drama goes from Ivory Coast to Paris
A son reflects on the struggles he faced with his brother and wayward mother after they moved to France from Africa, in a meditative coming-of-age story
Pacifiction review – trouble in paradise, in apocalyptic Tahitian mystery
Benoît Magimel’s French high commissioner confronts the end of his personal Eden in Tahiti, in Albert Serra’s distinctive film
Nostalgia review – bittersweet crime yarn also homecoming love-letter to Naples
Tremendously shot and terrifically acted, this Neapolitan gangster drama from Mario Martone shatters the rose-tinted spectacles
Tori and Lokita review – clarity of purpose in the Dardennes’ parable of the dispossessed
The new film from double Palme d’Or winners focusses on a pair of young immigrants to Belgium who find themselves working in dangerous situations
Decision to Leave review – Tang Wei stuns in Park Chan-wook black-widow noir
Park’s tale of a married detective torn between infidelity and moral duty keeps the viewer off-balance at every turn
Forever Young review – endlessly tedious story of self-involved drama students
Valerie Bruni-Tedeschi’s latest Cannes lock-in is a woeful soap about aspiring actors in 80s Paris with neither the songs – or the soul – of Alan Parker’s Fame
Brother and Sister review – sibling battle with Marion Cotillard that leaves us all losers
The latest in Arnaud Desplechin’s overwrought oeuvre features plenty of film-making elan but not one line of plausible dialogue
Cairo Conspiracy (aka Boy from Heaven) review – stirring spy thriller set on an Egyptian campus
Egypt’s religious and secular institutions both breed mistrust in Tarik Saleh’s superbly realised paranoid nightmare
One Fine Morning review – Léa Seydoux sparkles in poignant drama
Mia Hansen-Løve returns to Paris with this powerful drama about a single mother torn between emotionally unavailable men
Russian Cannes contender defends Roman Abramovich as a ‘patron of the arts’
Dissident Russian film-maker Kirill Serebrennikov, whose film Tchaikovsky’s Wife received backing from the oligarch, has called for sanctions to be lifted
Tchaikovsky’s Wife review – love turns to obsession in an off-key marriage
Alyona Mikhailova is tremendous as estranged wife Antonina, whose naivety and narcissism fester in the rubble of her marriage to the gay composer
Final Cut (Coupez!) review – Hazanavicius’s silly, splattery zombie horror meta-farce
The Artist director’s remake of the Japanese cult film One Cut of the Dead is an undemanding, easygoing way to kick off the Cannes film festival
Cop Secret review – Reykjavík’s answer to Hot Fuzz in action flick sendup
Former footballer Hannes Þór Halldórsson makes his film debut with a goofy comedy about a knucklehead cop afraid to come out as gay
Cannes 2022: 10 movies to watch out for in this year’s festival
Austin Butler shakes his stuff as Elvis, Cronenberg gets creepy, Claire Denis takes on colonial agony and Hirokazu Kore-eda unwraps his first Korean-language film