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20-10-2025 Vol 19

Category: Cannes 2025

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Cannes Review: Sentimental Value Thrives on Joachim Trier and Renate Reinsve’s Inimitable Chemistry

Over a delicately structured, Mike Mills-ian montage of Nora Berg’s (Renate Reinsve) personal heritage––30-odd years of an Oslo native’s existence…

Cannes Review: It Was Just an Accident is Jafar Panahi’s Fiercest, Most Incendiary Takedown of Iran’s Regime

If you were handed over the man who destroyed your life and those of countless others––a psychopath who tortured, raped,…

Cannes Review: The History of Sound is a Tenderly Felt Drama with Terence Davies-Style Musicality

It’s strange to hear backwood Appalachian fiddle folk in a French theater at the hand of a South African director…

Cannes Review: Heads or Tails is an Ethereal, Lived-In Western

I could name few living filmmakers better equipped for the Western than Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis. The…

Cannes Review: Carla Simón’s Romería is a Personal Tale of Intergenerational Dissonance

Continuing in the low-key register of her Golden Bear winner Alcarràs, Carla Simón returns with Romería, another tale of intergenerational…

Cannes Review: Highest 2 Lowest Marks a Lesser Collaboration for Spike Lee and Denzel Washington

Spike Lee’s joints are known for their sweeping coverage of New York City, in particular Brooklyn, and even more specifically…

Cannes Review: A Private Life Proves a Fleet, Sharp Showcase for Jodie Foster

It came as quite the surprise that acclaimed director Rebecca Zlotowski’s latest film, led by Jodie Foster and an all-star…

Cannes Review: Alpha is a Half-Baked Misstep for Julia Ducournau

Julia Ducournau has turned 180 degrees since Titane, the gritty and bizarre thriller that Spike Lee’s Cannes jury awarded the…

Cannes Review: The Secret Agent is a Rousing, Unsettling Thriller from Kleber Mendonça Filho

When Armando (Wagner Moura) finally resolves to seek a fake passport and one-way ticket out of Brazil for himself and…

Cannes Review: Peak Everything is a Romantic Dramedy That Finds Levity in the Anxieties of Societal Ills

While there’s the oft-repeated observation that every generation thinks they are living through the end of the world, the maelstrom…