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<p>'Love Letters' and 'Sentimental Value'</p>

Cannes 2025

The 8 best movies we saw at Cannes Film Festival 2025

The best of this year’s festival as selected by Jacob Stolworthy, including a a nerve-shredding drama that caused loud gasps from viewers

<p>‘Karate Kid: Legends is not too violent. In this movie, when you fight, it’s like dancing’</p>

In Focus

Jackie Chan at 71: ‘Jump off a building? I need a stunt double now’

<p>Aubry Dullin and Zoey Deutch as Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’</p>

Inside Film

The Breathless tribute that (unsurprisingly) charmed Cannes

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<p>Zoom in for detail: Benicio Del Toro soaks up the scenery in Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’</p>

In Focus

Inside the obsessive, compulsive making of a Wes Anderson set

Inside Film

<p>A touch of the Tooch: Stanley Tucci, actor and celebrity foodie</p>

Inside Film

Stanley Tucci’s acting career is stuck in a spiral of mediocrity

One of Hollywood’s most-liked character actors has revelled in a second career as a celebrity foodie – while appearing in a nearly unbroken run of lacklustre films. Louis Chilton asks where Tucci’s career will go from here

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<p>Lily Collias in 'Good One'</p>

Inside Film

Cinema’s new trend? The frustrated descendants of the American western

New drama ‘Good One’ follows a father and daughter on a fraught hiking trip in New York’s Catskills. Xan Brooks looks at an emerging sub-genre of films – and the death of a long-held American tradition

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Reviews

<p>Steve Carell in Jesse Armstrong’s ‘Mountainhead’</p>

Mountainhead is an exquisite satire from the creator of Succession

<p>John Krasinski in Guy Ritchie’s ‘Fountain of Youth’</p>

Guy Ritchie’s radar for smart nonsense rescues Fountain of Youth

<p>Josh O’Connor and Paul Mescal in Oliver Hermanus’s ‘The History of Sound’</p>

Cannes 2025

Paul Mescal’s gay drama The History of Sound is severely anticlimactic

<p>The Disney live-action remake machine has rendered Stitch in spiritless CGI</p>

The live-action Lilo & Stitch is a travesty

<p>Mélissa Boros in Julia Ducournau’s ‘Alpha’</p>

Cannes 2025

The French horror film so tedious it prompted walkouts at Cannes

<p>Denzel Washington in Spike Lee’s ‘Highest 2 Lowest’</p>

Cannes 2025

Denzel Washington is surprisingly one-note in Spike Lee’s new film

<p>Mia Threapleton and Benicio Del Toro in Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’</p>

Cannes 2025

The Phoenician Scheme is one of Wes Anderson’s best films in years

<p>Jennifer Lawrence in Lynne Ramsay’s ‘Die My Love’</p>

Cannes 2025

Die My Love struggles to sell Jennifer Lawrence’s descent into madness

<p>Denzel Washington in Spike Lee’s ‘Highest 2 Lowest’</p>

Cannes 2025

Denzel Washington is surprisingly one-note in Spike Lee’s new film

<p>Mia Threapleton and Benicio Del Toro in Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’</p>

Cannes 2025

The Phoenician Scheme is one of Wes Anderson’s best films in years

<p>Jennifer Lawrence in Lynne Ramsay’s ‘Die My Love’</p>

Cannes 2025

Die My Love struggles to sell Jennifer Lawrence’s descent into madness

Interviews

<p>Matthew Rhys: ‘A plastic surgeon took one look at me and knew I was Celtic’</p>

Interview

Matthew Rhys: ‘I would have tried to play James Bond as a Welshman’

<p>‘It’s fun to do my own stunts. The aches and the pains feel like part and parcel’</p>

Interview

Daisy Ridley: ‘The fact is, all actors are mainly known for one thing’

<p>‘Right now I really need to think about what kinds of movies I’ll make going forward’</p>

Interview

Steven Soderbergh: ‘Erin Brockovich wouldn’t get made today… unless you get Timothée Chalamet’

<p>‘In the realm of acting, you do believe what you’re feeling, every single step. But it doesn’t mean that you are lovers outside of it’</p>

Interview

Juliette Binoche on reuniting with Ralph Fiennes: ‘I know his desires. I know his dark sides’

<p>‘You can see so many sex scenes on your telephone today, so sex naturally felt more transgressive 20 years ago’</p>

Interview

François Ozon: ‘I was a very perverse child – I loved the idea of my aunt trying to kill us all’

<p>‘Opus isn’t necessarily that different from reality – I mean, the world is pretty insane’</p>

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Murray Bartlett: ‘I looked down on soaps – and really regretted it’

<p>Carrie-Anne Moss: ‘Not only am I drawn to genre films, but they are drawn to me’</p>

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Carrie-Anne Moss: ‘I cried and cried… my heart hadn’t got tough yet’

Nickel Boys’ Brandon Wilson: ‘There’s no logic to racial structures’

Interview

Nickel Boys’ Brandon Wilson: ‘There’s no logic to racial structures’

Features

<p>Wes Anderson directs Mia Threapleton and Benicio Del Toro on the set of his new film, ‘The Phoenician Scheme’</p>

Comment

Wes Anderson isn’t in a rut, but he could do with another flop

<p>Guy Ritchie and John Krasinski on the set of ‘Fountain of Youth’</p>

In Focus

Guy Ritchie’s decision to give up the geezer act is a stroke of genius

<p>Fastest man alive: Tom Cruise in 2023’s ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’</p>

In Focus

Mission: Impossible became a Tom Cruise vanity project – their demise could save him

<p>A star is born: Heath Ledger in the teen classic ‘10 Things I Hate About You’</p>

Comment

A 10 Things I Hate About You reboot without Heath Ledger is insanity

Flashbacks

<p>An indispensable, delightful – and nostalgic – piece of Bond’s hallowed history: Roger Moore and Grace Jones in ‘A View to a Kill’</p>

A View to a Kill doesn’t deserve its reputation as the worst ever Bond

<p>Romantic euphoria: Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen in ‘Pride & Prejudice’</p>

features

How 2005’s Pride & Prejudice became the ultimate 21st-century romcom

<p>Scream queen: Tina Turner reportedly beat out David Bowie and Mick Jagger to play the film’s Acid Queen</p>

Features

Baked beans, Tina Turner and Elton John on stilts: The story behind Tommy

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<p>Sink or swim: Leonardo DiCaprio in Danny Boyle’s ‘The Beach’</p>

How The Beach nearly sank Leonardo DiCaprio (and upset Ewan McGregor)

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