Film Reviews23 May 2025Mountainhead: A 'nightmare' vision of the worldSuccession creator Jesse Armstrong's dystopian feature film debut, premiering on HBO, imagines a world run by super-rich tycoons, and has "timely resonance" in this "high-tech moment".23 May 2025Culture23 May 2025This Brazilian thriller could be an Oscars hopefulSet in the military dictatorship of 1970s Brazil, The Secret Agent "makes up in pulpy excitement what it lacks in subtlety", and "bursts with sex, shoot-outs and sleazy hitmen".23 May 2025Culture22 May 2025Revenge thriller favourite for Cannes' top prizeAfter years of imprisonment and travel bans in his native Iran, Jafar Panahi returns to Cannes with a furious but funny revenge thriller that could scoop the Palme d'Or.22 May 2025Culture21 May 2025Gay romance The History of Sound is 'too polite'In this period drama, premiering at Cannes, two of Hollywood's buzziest male actors play lovers making music together – but the film could do with far more passion and urgency.21 May 2025Culture20 May 2025This nightmarish virus horror is 'maddening'After winning the Palme d'Or for the shocking Titane, French director Julia Ducournau is back at Cannes with another nightmarishly weird film – but it's an unsatisfying watch.20 May 2025Culture18 May 2025Wes Anderson takes his quirkiness to 'new levels'Featuring Benicio Del Toro, Michael Cera, Scarlett Johansson and many more stars, the director's latest farce The Phoenician Scheme has premiered at Cannes – and it's daft but fun.18 May 2025Culture17 May 2025Jennifer Lawrence is 'better than ever'Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson star in Lynne Ramsay's 'surreal' and 'intense' study of postpartum depression that has premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.17 May 2025Culture16 May 2025A shocking thriller about US pandemic divisionsDirector Ari Aster is once again set to shock with surreal, gory western Eddington, featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, which is premiering at the Cannes Film Festival.16 May 2025Culture14 May 2025'The feel-bad film of the summer'The opposite of an escapist blockbuster, the eighth and apparently final outing for Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt is the doomiest and gloomiest yet in the action-adventure franchise.14 May 2025Culture...