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

Rhino review – horribly compelling Ukrainian crime drama

Oleh Sentsov’s deftly directed morality tale charts the rise and fall of an out-of-control gangster

‘You’re born an egotistical sociopath’: The Innocents, the child-horror that leaves audiences shaking

There’s no gore and little violence, so why does Eskil Vogt’s film about children with special powers provoke such strong reactions? He says it’s because the cruelty exhibited is uncomfortably relatable

Lost Illusions review – Balzac adaptation is period-drama perfection

Benjamin Voisin and Cécile de France star in a superb costume coming-of-age story for the Netflix generation

We and Our Mountains review – absurdist Armenian satire thumbs its nose at Soviet Russia

On a remote hillside, far from the swinging 60s, garrulous shepherds exasperate the police in this elegant parable about power and the state

Eleven Days in May review – unflinching homage to children killed in Gaza last year

Mohammed Sawwaf and Michael Winterbottom’s documentary takes a deeply personal approach to the young lives lost in May’s bombings

Thar review – savage Hindi neo-western set in Rajasthan

An antique dealer, a disillusioned cop and a thirst for revenge collide in this gruesomely compelling Indian thriller

The Swimmer review – Olympic ambition and homophobia in the fast lane

Israeli director Adam Kalderon draws on his own experience in this engaging drama

Wild Men review – Danish dad seeks his inner Viking in midlife crisis comedy

A suburban man leaves his family and heads to the mountains, where he meets a criminal on the run…