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We discovered Argentine filmmaker Federico Luis as one of the exciting, singular new voices when his feature debut, Simon of the Mountain, premiered at Cannes at the Critics’ Week in 2024. Currently mounting his sophomore feature The Dog Trainer (with...

Family of Straw: Hayakawa Paints Busy Coming-of-Age Portrait Going in the opposite direction of her 2022 debut Plan 75, a sci-fi meditation on Japan’s aging population, director Chie Hayakawa sets her sights on one defining summer for an eleven-year-old girl...

The Russians Are Killing the Russians Are Killing: Assayas Bungles Political Espionage Of the many significant issues severely hobbling The Wizard of the Kremlin, the latest film from French auteur Olivier Assayas, the most egregious is how incredibly stupid it...

Set in Mallorca, Cata’s summer is drenched in sun and lazy promise—until it is violently rewritten by the absurd, sudden death of her grandmother, a death witnessed by her eyes alone. Unmoored by a grief no one else can truly...

The Era of Men: Valeska Dredges the Darkness of the Past There’s an essence of Valeska Grisebach’s cinema which makes one feel as if it’s playing out in real-time, arguably a detriment as the sometimes sinister, sometimes sublime elements of...

Fatherland and Fjord towered above the rest on our 2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel — but how did the competition stack up across the other jury grids floating around the Croisette? In a year where our highest-rated selections also found favor...

Bird on a Wire: The Past Haunts the Present in Mysius’ Thriller For her third feature film, Histoires de la nuit (aka The Birthday Party), writer/director Léa Mysius once again plays with genre conventions, intrigued by characters who have desperately...

Bent Knee, Limp Wrist: Dhont Explores Love at the Frontline “We have so much to say and we shall never say it,” is one of the many grim rationalizations in Erich Maria Remarque’s classic anti-war text All Quiet on the...

The Palme d’Or winner and the Best Director winners are 2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel top graded films according to our twenty international film critics. Cristian Mungiu won his second Palme d’Or for Fjord and Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland reign supreme while...

Léa Mysius’s cinema as to this point focused on adolescence and sensory awakening, the body as transformation and instability but with her third feature she has moved into genre. She broke through with 2017’s Ava in the Critics’ Week and...