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Die My Love review – Jennifer Lawrence excels in intensely sensual study of a woman in meltdown

Lawrence excels as a woman whose bipolar disorder is exacerbated by husband Robert Pattinson’s infidelity, with super-strength direction from Lynne Ramsay

Nouvelle Vague – Richard Linklater bends the knee to Breathless and Jean-Luc Godard

Linklater recreates the making of the landmark French New Wave classic with an awestruck tastefulness that smooths over any disruptiveness

‘Fight back and don’t let them win’: actor Pedro Pascal decries Trump’s attacks on artists

Comments at Cannes come after US president’s social media posts against Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift

The Chronology of Water review – Kristen Stewart makes a traumatic splash with directorial debut

Imogen Poots takes the lead in Stewart’s choppy but compelling adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir of abuse and sexual uncertainty

Eddington review – Ari Aster’s tedious Covid western masks drama and mutes his stars

Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler have little to work with in this disappointing dud from the Hereditary and Midsommar director

‘A push towards the conservative’: Cannes tries to ban oversized outfits and naked dressing

Festival’s rules designed to protect ‘decency’ and seating arrangements stir controversy among those who read them

Kristen Stewart says Donald Trump’s effect on the film industry is ‘terrifying’

The actor who is making her directorial debut with The Chronology of Water at the Cannes film festival says ‘we should expect the worst and fight for the best’

Show me the tummy! Tom Cruise doesn’t need sleep, help or clothes in Mission: Impossible

The Hollywood icon defies age and Arctic climes to save the world in the epic messianic spectacle The Final Reckoning. But why won’t he bare his soul?

Dossier 137 review – tense gilets-jaunes thriller divides cop’s loyalties over police brutality

A taut, charged procedural from Dominik Moll follows a conflicted officer investigating a teenage protester’s injuries

‘We have to stop what’s going on, it’s insane’: Robert De Niro on battling age, apathy and Trump

As the actor receives an honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes film festival, he talks about why he couldn’t look at himself if he didn’t speak out about the US president and politics

Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa decries ‘nightmare’ of Putin-Trump alliance

In Cannes to promote his Stalinist drama Two Prosecutors, the film-maker said he feared the US and Russia would soon ‘become equal’

Two Prosecutors review – a petrifying portrait of Stalinist insurrection

Drawn from a suppressed story by gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, Sergei Loznitsa’s haunting film unravels a terrifying parable of bureaucratic evil

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning review – world-saving Tom Cruise signs off with wildly entertaining adventure

Cruise does things his way in this eighth and last Mission: Impossible, as his maverick agent Ethan Hunt takes on the ultimate in AI evil

‘We couldn’t tell if he was conscious’: Tom Cruise got stuck on top of biplane shooting Mission: Impossible sequel

The star, who at 62 performed his own stunts for the forthcoming Final Reckoning, tells Cannes press conference ‘I don’t mind encountering the unknown’

Enzo review – Laurent Cantet’s swan song is a heartfelt tale of youth and desire

This powerful drama from the late film-maker and his longtime collaborator Robin Campillo, who directs, charts the growing pains of a teenager from a privileged family

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  • ‘Fight back and don’t let them win’: actor Pedro Pascal decries Trump’s attacks on artists
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  • The Chronology of Water review – Kristen Stewart makes a traumatic splash with directorial debut
  • Bono: Stories of Surrender review – megastar tries out humility in likable one-man show
  • Eddington review – Ari Aster’s tedious Covid western masks drama and mutes his stars
  • The Guide #191: After three decades, Tom Cruise is done with Mission: Impossible – so what’s next?
  • ‘A push towards the conservative’: Cannes tries to ban oversized outfits and naked dressing
  • The Little Sister review – a discerning drama of queer Muslim coming-of-age
  • Jeremy Irons is perfectly cast as the sea – but who should play the clouds?
  • Kristen Stewart says Donald Trump’s effect on the film industry is ‘terrifying’
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  • Charles Strouse, Tony award-winning composer of Annie, dies aged 96
  • James Gunn’s new Superman is more human than alien god – but can he still inspire awe?
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  • Hurry Up Tomorrow review – The Weeknd’s meta-thriller plays like a music video
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  • Joe Don Baker, tough-guy actor from Walking Tall and Bond films, dies aged 89
  • ‘We have to stop what’s going on, it’s insane’: Robert De Niro on battling age, apathy and Trump
  • Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa decries ‘nightmare’ of Putin-Trump alliance
  • Two Prosecutors review – a petrifying portrait of Stalinist insurrection
  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning review – world-saving Tom Cruise signs off with wildly entertaining adventure
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