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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’
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Unless we count some items he produced, Ari Aster is one of the filmmakers coming to Cannes without any previous Croisette history. A standout in the horror field and psychological warfare, it was only a question of time to see...
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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Hafsia Herzi’s ‘La Petite Dernière’ (The Little Sister)
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Actress-filmmaker (she forever stole our cinephile heart for her role in Abdellatif Kechiche’s The Secret of the Grain back in 2007) Hafsia Herzi has made a striking impression adored on the Croisette with Tu mérites un amour (2019) locking up...
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Eddington | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
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No Country for Smart Men: Aster Satirizes the Obvious It would seem all is actually for naught in Eddington, Ari Aster’s sprawling, meandering fourth and least inspired feature to date. While previously a forerunner of the elevated horror era, Aster...
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Cannes 2025: The Plague, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, Amrum
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On three movies about difficult childhoods from this year's Cannes.
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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
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The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard Adaptation “My name is Fatima,” is one of the constant refrains utilized in Fatima Daas’ celebrated first novel The Last One (2020), a fragmented piece of auto-fiction which parallels the author’s...
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THE REMEDY’s Alex Kahuam Announces Next Project, STAY WITH ME
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Alex Kahuam had barely set foot on the ground at Cannes to present their latest film, The Remedy, during the programming at Fantastic Pavilion, when they announced their next project. Variety had the scoop yesterday on his next film, Stay...
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Shudder in June: BEST WISHES TO ALL, ASH And Early James Wan Classics
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Halfway through a month and you know what that means, it is time to look ahead to next month's programming over at Shudder.   In June subscribers will get to see Yûta Shimotsu's debut feature film, Best Wishes to All,...
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SISTER MIDNIGHT
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(Check out Chris Reed’s Sister Midnight movie review. The film hits NYC theaters Friday, May 16 and expands in the upcoming weeks. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The trailer for writer-director Karan Kandhari’s feature debut,...
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Cannes 2025: Left-Handed Girl, Sirât
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Today's dispatch includes a Sean Baker production and the latest from Oliver Laxe.
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The Criterion Collection’s August Lineup Includes an Edward Yang Double-Feature, Kon Ichikawa, Compensation & More
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If Criterion’s influence from the last 15-or-so years must distilled to one figure, a good candidate might be Edward Yang. The near-instant canonization of Yi Yi, A Brighter Summer Day, and Taipei Story––not quite tailor-made for constant sell-out screenings or...
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