Review: Mommy

If the jury holds its nerve, this could be the Palme d’Or winner


Review: Jimmy’s Hall

This simple story is carried off with all the zest and grit we expect from Ken Loach



Review: The Search

Director of ‘The Artist’ Michel Hazanavicius is back with a sprawling, unsettled drama set during the second Chechen war


Review: Still The Water

Little else in this year’s Cannes has the lyrical power of this film’s final sequences


Review: Two Days, One Night

The premise of the latest film from the Dardennes is a little trite, but the execution is as assured as ever


Review: Maps to the Stars

Despite the verve, spew, anger and perversity on display, this neo-Jacobean Hollywood tragedy does not break much new ground



Review: Foxcatcher

Astonishing performances from Steve Carell and Channing Tatum make this a true contender


Review: The Captive

Atom Egoyan’s latest is uneven and sometimes tasteless – his return to form remains on ice


Review: Timbuktu

For all its terrors, this story about fundamentalism in Mali never drags or seems worthy




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