Cord Jefferson’s satire about Black artists fighting white perceptions of their work runs out of ideas, while Matthew Vaughn’s spy movie parody has no ideas of its own

Films from Iran, Ukraine and Bundaberg were deserving winners at this year’s festival

It was a strong year for horror, while lowlights included Martin Scorsese’s mishandled ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and Emerald Fennell’s lazily conceived ‘Saltburn’

Emma Stone seeks a moral conscience in Yorgos Lanthimos’s upended Frankenstein grotesque, while Andrew Haigh delivers a metaphysical coming-out story

David Fincher’s stylish pulp and Juel Taylor’s SF-adjacent satire are the latest riches to be taken for granted in the ever-ready, abundant world of Netflix

Cuban drama ‘Oceans Are the Real Continents’, hypnotic Nepalese debut ‘The Red Suitcase’, and documentary ‘Photophobia’, following those sheltering in Kharkiv’s underground metro stations, are among this year’s stand-outs

Martin Scorsese’s first Western mishandles its story of colonial exploitation, while Pablo Larraín’s darkly humorous, black-and-white satire delivers Pinochet as a vampire

The Hollywood writers’ strike has put a spotlight on the impact artificial intelligence may have on artistic endeavour

Korean debut filmmaker Celine Song’s elegant three-part love story embraces the Buddhist idea of encounters over many incarnations

Rodrigo Moreno’s transfixing drama ‘The Delinquents’, Molly Manning Walker’s unsentimental coming-of-age film ‘How to Have Sex’ and Spanish veteran Víctor Erice’s ‘Close Your Eyes’ were among the best of the Cannes sidebars

Jonathan Glazer brilliantly conveys the banality of evil in Auschwitz drama ‘The Zone of Interest’, while Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ disappointed

Comics fan James Gunn delivers the best of Marvel’s overabundance, while Brandon Cronenberg offers a perverse vision of humanity unbound

Standouts among the sidebars included French crime flick ‘The Temple Woods Gang’, Argentinian comedy of errors ‘Arturo a los 30’ and London-set queer thriller ‘Femme’

The venerable Polish director’s latest film follows a donkey on a moving yet unsentimental journey

The two best films of the festival – Celine Song’s impeccable romance ‘Past Lives’ and Lila Avilés’ sophomore feature ‘Tótem’ – failed to garner awards recognition