Features

Thin crust: Paul Thomas Anderson’s highly anticipated (and widely feted) Licorice Pizza leaves an aftertaste both sweet and sour

Evasive truths: the eighth edition of the festival traces the various ways in which contemporary cinema challenges the foundations of ethnography

A flurry of metaphors: Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is a profane and laugh-out-loud funny film about the open (and oft-denied) wounds of Romania’s fraught history

“The ‘gatekeeper’—i.e. myself”: Sun examines the legacy of Vogel’s Cinema 16 and reflects its implications for subversive film programming today

Fit to print: Wes Anderson’s star-packed anthology The French Dispatch, though a bit too finicky, acheives moments of genuine grace

Emerald cities: In Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir Part II trauma and pain are transformed, through arduous self-examination, into art

Shifting sands: Denis Villeneuve’s Dune typifies the current mania for world-building over character-building

Birth of tragedy: the search for truth, both personal and historical, is the driving force of Parallel Mothers, Pedro Almodóvar’s most openly political film to date

Time’s arrow: in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, the past is alien, layered with trauma and the beauty of the unknowable

Saddle sore: Jane Campion’s latest is lacking in the richly personal, idiosyncratic feminism of her great early films