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The Best Films of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival
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The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has now concluded, with Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident taking home the Palme d’Or (see all jury winners here). While our coverage will continue with a few more reviews this...
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Cannes Review: The Chronology of Water is Kristen Stewart’s Elemental Calling Card for Directorial Greatness
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Book adaptations yield two kinds of films: those that transliterate and those that translate. While the former insist on keeping the source material’s spirit at the cost of a rendition so faithful it comes to stage things rigidly, like a...
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Cannes 2025: Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, Militantropos, Imago
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Films highlighting the turmoil in Gaza, Ukraine, and Georgia in today's Cannes dispatch.
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The Mastermind | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Thieves Like Us: Reichardt Wanders with an Inscrutable Slacker Abstract paintings are not the only undefined objects in The Mastermind, the latest from Kelly Reichardt, who has become a master herself at creating quiet, emotionally resonant characterizations of lonely, isolated...
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Cannes 2025 Review: NO ONE WILL KNOW Contemplates Just How Far People May Go to Make a Killing
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Vincent Maël Cardona's gripping thriller is much more than a genre exercise. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Cannes Review: Koji Fukada’s Love on Trial Gracefully Unpacks Idol and Agency
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What is love? For some, it is mutuality––a chemistry, care, and concern that blossoms into an equally supportive relationship. For others, it is devotion––a one-sided, obsessional affection that the lover finds selfless. Japanese idol group Happy Fanfare sing about love,...
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Cannes Review: In Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, Crime is a Losing Game
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For the second time in three years, Cannes’ competition ends with a film in which Josh O’Connor plays a scruffy, late-20th-century man with some knack for pinching masterpieces. Following (spiritually or otherwise) Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera is Kelly Reichardt’s The...
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CANNES 2025 AWARD WINNERS: Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just An Accident’ Wins the Palme d’Or (Full List)
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NEON has done it again. After 10 days of highly buzzed new cinema and hot acquisitions, the 78th Cannes Film Festival concluded with the Palme d’Or being awarded to Jafar Panahi’s revenge thriller, It Was Just An Accident. After acquiring...
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Cannes Review: Sylvain Chomet’s A Magnificent Life is a Saccharine Tribute to Marcel Pagnol
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It’s common for a successful artist to be asked about advice they’d give their younger self; one film from this year’s Cannes Specials selection does the opposite. In Sylvain Chomet’s animation A Magnificent Life, French playwright, filmmaker, and inventor Marcel...
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