Cannes Film Festival

Julie Keeps Quiet – first-look review

By David Jenkins

A young tennis star refuses to open about an abusive coach in Leonardo Van Dijl’s impressive feature debut.

Emilia Perez – first-look review

By David Jenkins

This ghastly musical melodrama from Jacques Audiard tells of a Mexican cartel bosses’s gender affirming surgery.

Caught by the Tides – first-look review

By David Jenkins

The Chinese maestro delivers his greatest film in this cut-and-paste jukebox musical melodrama.

The Surfer – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Nicolas Cage stars as a man who comes a cropper of a local surfer gang in Lorcan Finnigan's unsuccessful psychological thriller.

Oh, Canada – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

A celebrated documentary filmmaker makes a deathbed confession in Paul Schrader's adaptation of Russell Bank's novel Foregone.

Kinds of Kindness – first-look review

By David Jenkins

Yorgos Lanthimos returns with another scorcher in this innovative and darkly comic trio of films about spiritual domination.

Megalopolis – first-look review

By David Jenkins

Ignore the haters – this is the kaleidoscopic, enriching, Wellsian vision of a grand old master with nothing to lose.

Bird – first-look review

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Andrea Arnold returns with a flighty kitchen sink reverie that sadly falls from grace in a muddled second half.

On Becoming A Guinea Fowl – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

The death of a beloved uncle in a middle-class Zambian family brings some difficult truths to light in Rungano Nyoni's surreal second feature.

The Girl with the Needle – first-look review

By David Jenkins

Magnus Von Horn brings subtlety and empathy to the serial killer genre in this extraordinary true-life yarn.

Wild Diamond – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

A young woman with her heart set on social media stardom gets a shot at fame when she's offered an audition for a reality series in Agathe Riedinger's feature debut.

The Second Act – first-look review

By David Jenkins

The opening film of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival offers a limp metafictional critique of the modern film industry.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: the full line-up

By David Jenkins

Yorgos Lanthimos, David Cronenberg and Francis Ford Coppola roll out for France's premiere film jamboree.

Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall wins the 2023 Palme d’Or

By David Jenkins

The psychological courtroom thriller with the great Sandra Hüller wins the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Riddle of Fire – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Three precocious kids set out on a quest for blueberry pie in Weston Razooli's throwback adventure film.

The Old Oak – first-look review

By Mark Asch

In what could be his final film, Ken Loach turns his eye to UK immigration, focusing on a pub landlord in a town reckoning with a new population of Syrian refugees.

La Chimera – first-look review

By Mark Asch

Josh O’Connor breaks out his halting Italian as a grave-robbing rascal in Alice Rohrwacher’s divine exploration of time, history and memory.

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