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2025 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Competition [Video]
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The jury of Juliette Binoche, Alba Rohrwacher, Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, thesps Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong, South Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo, Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas and Congolese filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi chose to bestow the highest...
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2025 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Un Certain Regard [Video]
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Molly Manning Walker and her jury of Louise Courvoisier, Croatian director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam Vanja Kaludjercic, Italian director, producer and screenwriter Roberto Minervini and Argentinian actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart handed on the prizing late last week for...
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2025 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Directors’ Fortnight [Video]
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We missed out on the award ceremony at the Critics’ Week, but managed to be part of the festivities for the Directors’ Fortnight and it was the overwhelming popular The President’s Cake by Hasan Hadi that claimed the top acknowledgement...
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HOUSE ON EDEN: Shudder Acquires Found Footage Entry From
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Shudder has acquired found footage horror flick House on Eden from Canadian content creators Kris Collins and Celina Myers.    ... paranormal investigators Kris, Celina, and their videographer Jay expect the usual scares when they set out on their latest...
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THE MASTERMIND
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(Check out Savina Petkova’s The Mastermind movie review. The film just had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Kelly Reichardt’s heartful heist movie, decisively named The Mastermind, is not ‘playing...
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2025 Cannes Film Festival – Checklist of Our Reviews
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IONCINEMA.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire competition and more. Here is a comprehensive guide to all the feature films across all sections, including logged reviews and forthcoming ones. Our Cannes coverage continues well beyond the festival dates....
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A Closer Look at the Cannes 2025 Critics’ Grid
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The 78th Cannes Film Festival wrapped this past Saturday, and Hammer To Nail’s newest contributor, Savina Petkova, attended the festival and covered some of its buzzed-about and under-the-radar titles, which you can read reviews of HERE. We at HtN have...
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Cannes Review: A Poet is a Darkly Humorous Tale of Failed Creative Pursuits
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Far removed from the mournful yearnings of A Quiet Passion––much less the quotidian, calming rhythms of Paterson––Simón Mesa Soto’s Medellín-set second feature finds unexpected poetry in the jagged, pained misery of dashed dreams and misinterpreted, career-ending good intentions. A Poet’s...
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Ghost Trail Review: An Engrossing Surveillance Thriller Haunted by the Syrian War 
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Cannes coverage. Ghost Trailer opens in theaters on May 30. The wars in Gaza and Ukraine have dominated headlines for the past several years, yet receiving relatively little coverage...
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FX Navigates Familiar Comic Waters with Flair in Clever “Adults”
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As with most of these shows, the success of “Adults” comes down to casting.
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