Japanese cinema ticket prices go up for first time in 26 years
Major multiplex chains raise standard price to help pay for technology upgrades and building work, though not all follow suit
Streaming: a feast of Korean film for free
Following South Korea’s first Palme d’Or, the country’s film archive on YouTube offers plenty of further exploration
Sunset review – murky Hungarian drama
A young woman seeks her way in pre-first world war Budapest
In Safe Hands review – lives collide in intelligent adoption drama
In a welcome but heavy-handed tale, a fortysomething woman embarks on a momentous quest to bring a child into her home
Sibyl review – silly comedy about a psychotherapist breaking all the rules
Justine Triet makes her Cannes competition debut with this unconvincing film about an alcoholic therapist who mines a patient’s life for drama
Cannes 2019: Peter Bradshaw’s picks – and Palme d’Or predictions
Our chief critic’s considered verdict on new movies from big-hitters Almodóvar, Tarantino, Malick and Loach, as well as the buzz around homegrown talent Céline Sciamma
Matthias & Maxime review – Xavier Dolan’s heartfelt tale of male longing
Two friends’ playful kiss rekindles suppressed feelings in a film swept along by rattling dialogue and simmering tensions
Too Late to Die Young review – misty tale of a changing Chile
A teenager seeks to escape from her remote commune just after the fall of Pinochet in this atmospheric but elusive drama
Oh Mercy! review – self-admiring French murder drama
Roschdy Zem is an annoyingly wise police captain in northern France, as Arnauld Desplechin’s lofty pretensions fatally split the tone of his new crime film
Memoir of War review – Parisian wartime drama fails to ignite
The tale of a woman whose husband is caught by the Nazis muffles the fury and anger of Marguerite Duras’ book
Parasite review – creepy invasion of the lifestyle snatchers
Bong Joon-ho’s bizarre black comedy about a rich Korean family and a poor one in a modern-day Downton Abbey situation gets its tendrils in you
Lux Æterna review – self-parodic silliness from Gaspar Noé
Noé’s mockumentary about a movie shoot going horribly wrong goes … horribly wrong
Young Ahmed review – subtle and timely tale of radicalisation
This powerful film from the Dardenne brothers, about a Muslim boy living in a small Belgian town who is attracted to dangerous ideologies
The Whistlers (La Gomera) review – thrilling Romanian corrupt-cop noir
A bent detective becomes entangled in the crimes he’s investigating in Corneliu Porumboiu’s nifty, twisty drama
Portrait of a Lady on Fire review – burning desires and flashes of Hitchcock
Girlhood director Céline Sciamma’s gripping 18th-century story of obsession demonstrates a new mastery of classical style