Watch out for . . .

BEN FOSTER (right) and Chris Pine, (far right) who do some of their best screen work opposite Jeff Bridges in David Mackenzie’s contemporary, striking, socially aware Texan thriller Hell Or High Water. It’s about two brothers who go on a bank robbing spree across the Lone Star State with a wily Texas ranger (Bridges) on their trail. Every single role, from walk-on to leads, is superbly cast; and that’s the mark of a movie that really hits the bullseye.

ADAM DRIVER, who plays a poetic bus driver in Jim Jarmusch’s visual poem, Paterson. Its a measure of how much I loved the film that I felt momentarily bereft when I learned that Nellie, an English bulldog who played one of the main characters — Marvin — in the film, died after the movie’s completion.

SHIA LaBEOUF, Sasha Lane (making her acting debut) and Riley Keough (Elvis Presley’s grand-daughter), who star in American Honey, Andrea Arnold’s sublime study of the flip side of the American Dream. The film was shot in the United States but backed by Film4 and the British Film Institute.

EMMA SUAREZ and Adriana Ugarte, who play the older and younger versions of the eponymous Julieta in Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodovar’s new one. The movie, which tells the story of a widow whose daughter deliberately walks out of her life, is directed with a heart-shattering sensibility by Almodovar. SONIA BRAGA and Sandra Huller, who star in two disparate films shown in Cannes: Brazilian-born Braga as a woman fighting developers trying to force her out of a beachside Rio apartment in Aquarius; and Ms Huller providing a series of touchingly honest (but hilarious) moments in the German movie Toni Erdmann. TANyA Franks, Frances O’Connor, Alexander Hanson And Robert Portal, who play cheating couples in Christopher Hampton’s version of Florian Zeller’s hit play The Truth, which enjoyed full houses at the Menier Chocolate Factory and will now transfer to Wyndham’s Theatre from June 22 for a limited run through to September 3.