Motel Destino review – terrifically acted Brazilian erotic noir thriller

A young man on the run from a mob boss lands an unlikely job in a brutally functional love motel and starts a passionate affair with the manager’s wife

Was Cate Blanchett’s Cannes dress a pro-Palestinian protest – or an optical illusion?

The actor’s red carpet gown looked a lot like the Palestinian flag, but with a subtle difference

Sex-positive feminism had its moment – and now it has been replaced by voluntary celibacy

From the ‘boysober’ trend in the US to the 4B movement in South Korea, more and more heterosexual women are giving up sex, writes Arwa Mahdawi

‘It’s very hard to get spare parts’: London museum ‘retires’ treasure-trove gallery of household gadgets

Science Museum’s Secret Life of the Home collection, including tea-making machines, early microwave cookers, gramophones and the first flushing toilets will close on 2 June

‘It’s all been preposterous’: Stephen Merchant on fame, standup and the pressures of cancel culture

From The Office sidekick to standup legend and a serial killer, the multitalented Stephen Merchant is impossible to pin down. He talks about cancel culture, why pubs are more interesting than outer space and hanging out with Christopher Walken

‘Personalising stuff that doesn’t matter’: the trouble with the Zoe nutrition app

The wellness project claims to help users make ‘smarter food choices’ based on ‘world-leading science’. But many scientists claim its fee-based services are no better than generic advice

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

Will fashion’s flamboyant powerhouse Isabella Blow finally get her dues?

Beneath the famous hats was a prime mover in a British golden age, as a biopic is about to show

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

From capes to plunging necklines, all the fashion fun of Cannes film festival

The best outfits, the looks that might trickle down and styles that should stay on the riviera

Meryl Streep: it’s ‘hardest thing’ for men to see themselves in female characters

Speaking at Cannes, the actor said that before more women got greenlight jobs in Hollywood, executives had struggled to see themselves in female roles

Spice up your spreadsheets! Should you run your relationship like a business?

Could office management software such as Slack and Notion optimise your relationship? A surprising number of people are trying it out

Richard Hartley

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