Beating Hearts review – operatic French gangster film suffers from bloat
Gilles Lelouche’s new movie aims for a Springsteenesque blue-collar energy but buckles under the weight of its own naivety
Grand Tour review – engaged couple’s sweet, strange colonial era hide-and-seek
Miguel Gomes’s beguiling and bewildering story follows a jittery fiance fleeing his intended across the British empire, and her hot pursuit
Tiger Stripes review – entertaining Malaysian horror shows its claws
TikTok meets south-east Asian folklore in Amanda Nell Eu’s fierce directorial debut, an allegory about the onset of puberty
Two Tickets to Greece review – a holiday you may want to cut short
Great scenery and a joyous Kristin Scott Thomas are no match for one infuriating lead character in Marc Fitoussi’s friends reunited French comedy
The Balconettes review – neighbours finding trouble in invitation to hot guy’s flat
Noémie Merlant’s first film as a director is relentlessly silly, self-indulgent and unsuited to its themes of misogyny and sexual violence
Cannes 2024 week one roundup – the jury’s out, the sun isn’t…
The weather didn’t play ball, but Magnus von Horn’s fierce fairytale and Andrea Arnold’s kitchen-sink take on English mysticism should count among the first-week highlights for Greta Gerwig’s jury
‘Exhausting and extremely dangerous’: Mohammad Rasoulof on his escape from Iran
Exclusive: The director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig details how he discarded electronic devices and fled over the mountains on foot after authorities sentenced him to eight years in prison and flogging
Slow: the Lithuanian asexual romcom that raises ‘a lot of questions’
Marija Kavtaradze’s new film is a love story with a truly radical approach to intimacy. She reveals how she made a will they/won’t they tale that strays into little-known territory
The Girl With the Needle review – horrific drama based on Denmark’s 1921 baby-killer case
Loosely based on fact, Magnus van Horn’s fictionalised true crime nightmare leaves you with a shiver of pure fear
Wild Diamond review – French social-realist drama fuelled by TikTok energy
First-time actor Agathe Riedinger is a wannabe influencer from the wrong side of the tracks in this forthright and fluent film
Rome, Open City review – Rossellini’s blazingly urgent masterpiece from a city in ruins
Roberto Rossellini’s 1945 neorealist drama is unsparing in its depiction of the heavy price of both resistance and collaboration with the Nazi occupation
The Second Act review – Quentin Dupieux’s likable meta comedy of actors’ private lives
With help from an A-list cast, Dupieux brings his customary mischief to an amiable tale of imposture and role play
Our Mothers review – intimate drama exploring the legacy of Guatemala’s bloody civil war
Director César Díaz’s award-winning debut powerfully confronts his country’s past
La Chimera review – Josh O’Connor dazzles in brilliant tale of Italian tomb-raiders
Torn between lost love and a gang of rowdy grave-robbers, the actor digs deep for one of his finest performances in Alice Rohrwacher’s dazzling caper
Mambar Pierrette review – big-hearted parable of women’s resilience in Cameroon
Pierrette is beset with troubles, from a robbery to a house flood and more, but the neorealist drama comes with solidarity and surprising humour