Jonathan Romney

Eye-level in the lowlands: the Dutch festival had a bit of a lull, but a day-trip to a Béla Tarr exhibition yielded a pick-me-up

Rightful heirs: Lolita Chammah stars alongside mother Isabelle Huppert in Barrage and Neïl Beloufa’s Occidental finds fresh oddity in old influences

Siren song: Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s delirious, murderous musical harkens back to the cinema du look, Hans Christian Andersen, and much more

Country life: Stranger by the Lake director Alain Guiraudie spins a footloose and fanciful yarn that obeys a surreal logic

And you are...? M. Night Shyamalan returns to form with an entertaining but absurd thriller

Round and round: the new Jim Jarmusch film finds the art in routine for a poetic New Jersey bus driver's life

Friends on benefits: Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner offers a complex drama about the injustice of the U.K.'s social welfare system

Circular ruins: Pablo Larraín's anti-biopic of one of Chile's greatest poets is grandly dreamlike

Milk of human kindness: Pietro Marcello's magical realist hybrid tale starring a calf is unabashedly poetic

Horror begins at home: Nicolas Pesce’s tantalizingly oblique debut leads you down the rabbit hole of family history

Bad timing: Sophia Takal smartly deconstructs the male gaze through the familiar trope of female doppelgängers

Bureaucratic oath: Feng Xiaogang’s film about a woman seeking a divorce shows the labyrinthine realities of today's China, but not much else

Found in translation: Denis Villeneuve’s alien encounter flick offers up thoughtful ideas about cinema, language, and empathy

Turn on, tune in: Marvel's mystical-metaphysical superhero reaches the big screen without any compromises

Doomsday profit: Werner Herzog puts his apocalyptic touch on another, volcanic force of nature

Young buns: the trueish tale of a gay porn actor's attempt to make it gets at some larger, uncomfortable truths

Rainy day women: Kelly Reichardt's triptych finds the flow of moments in three stories by Maile Meloy

Dare to be stupid: Jim Hosking's irredeemable and weird father-son whatsit is just silly enough

A whole nother vein: Eugène Green's Shakespearean-tinged story of filial frustration shows the director's formal hallmarks in beguiling full effect

Caution, children: the cruelties of youth prompted many walkouts at San Sebastian