at its press screening yesterday, with some of the more enthusiastic attendees declaring: "It's like nothing else I've seen!"

Grace of Monaco

Olivier Dahan's film, which opened Cannes last week, follows the relationship of Grace Kelly (Nicole Kidman) and Prince Rainier of Monaco (Tim Roth). Collin calls it a "fantastically silly melodrama" and says that even by the end of the first scene the audience of international critics had "started curling up, like startled armadillos, into tight little balls of embarrassment". Stephen Dalton at the Hollywood Reporter says that the "Shrek movies deconstruct fairy tale conventions with much more depth and wit than this dreary parade of lifeless celebrity waxworks".

The Captive

Ryan Reynolds apparently skipped the after-party for The Captive after the film was roundly booed at Friday's premiere screening. Directedby Atom Egoyan, The Captive casts Reynolds as a father desperately searching for his abducted daughter. The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw calls it a "one-star turkey" that is "so misjudged from start to finish it feels like a terrible dream". Line by line, scene by scene, it is "offensively preposterous and crass", says Bradshaw. "Has a grownup person written this script? It is embarrassingly unconvincing."

Saint Laurent

Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent is said to be superior to the other recent Yves Saint Laurent biopic directed by Jalil Lespert, which was condemned on release as a "lifeless" account of the fashion designer's career. But it seems Bonello has been damned by faint praise. His film is "seductively silly and largely unmoving", says Variety's Guy Lodge, while the Telegraph calls it "thunderously vapid".