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We're honored to announce Julia Loktev’s essential documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow as the recipient of the 2025 Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award. Learn more: deadline.com/2025/11/my-und…

Last update for our 2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel - we take a look at some of the other grids seeing where and how we differ ... the French are into NOTRE SAULT & PAPER TIGER with THE DREAMED ADVENTURE tops elsewhere. ioncinema.com/news/film-fest…

In his first Cannes dispatch, @isaacfeldberg reviews three films in the Un Certain Regard section: ELEPHANTS IN THE FOG, YESTERDAY THE EYE DIDN’T SLEEP, & A GIRL’S STORY: rogerebert.com/festivals/cann…

What a beautiful oddity THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER is. Kurosawa’s beguiling portrait of a warlord who hates killing reads like a heartfelt tribute from one disruptor to another. One of KK’s most confounding—a true Cannes standout. Words for @TheFilmStage thefilmstage.com/cannes-review-…

“I channeled some of the fear and anxiety I was having about what’ s next into this project." @thecurvycritic spoke with TUNER director Daniel Roher about embracing his own journey of self-discovery and blending the crime thriller genre with romance. rogerebert.com/interviews/hea…

Managing editor @Brian_Tallerico offers insights on six films worth watching that he didn’t write about at Cannes this year, from ALL OF A SUDDEN to THE BELOVED. rogerebert.com/festivals/cann…

Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 'All of a Sudden' and Jane Schoenbrun's 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' received the most mentions in our critics' top 10 lists from #Cannes2026. Explore: thefilmstage.com/the-best-films…

In his final Cannes dispatch, @Brian_Tallerico reviews three disappointing Midnight (or Midnight adjacent) films: COLONY, THE END OF IT, & ROMA ELASTICA. rogerebert.com/festivals/cann…

Our critics share their top 10 films from the 2026 Cannes Film Festival: thefilmstage.com/the-best-films…

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's entrancing, beguiling 'The Samurai and the Prisoner' feels at once retro and rebellious. Read @LeonardoGoi's Critic's Pick review from #Cannes2026: thefilmstage.com/cannes-review-…

We'll have some more updates soon ... but here are the latest (and pretty much final) grades on our 2026 Cannes Critics’ Panel + average score for Valeska Grisebach's 'The Dreamed Adventure' ioncinema.com/news/film-fest…

"One wishes the movie’s ending were less abrupt for several reasons. The main one, though, is that we’d like to spend more time with these two characters,” writes @glenn__kenny about TUNER. rogerebert.com/reviews/tuner-…

Reviewing the penultimate Cannes film in Competition and a war film in the Cannes Premiere section, @Brian_Tallerico reviews THE BIRTHDAY PARTY and WHEN THE NIGHT FALLS. rogerebert.com/festivals/cann…

Cristian Mungiu’s FJORD wins the Palme! NEON keeps their streak alive. Here’s Savina Petkova’s review for Hammer to Nail - hammertonail.com/reviews/fjord/

IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU, Mary Bronstein’s visceral portrait of a woman on the verge, gets a solid A/V presentation and a very informative commentary track courtesy of A24. tinyurl.com/y27mtzh3

Valeska Grisebach's Cannes Jury Prize winner #TheDreamedAdventure is a spellbinding noir that exudes a strange hold over the viewer. Read @RorySeanOC's Critic's Pick review: thefilmstage.com/cannes-review-…

Marine Atlan’s Critics’ Week Grand Prize winner #LaGradiva captures adolescence not as innocence lost, but as consciousness arriving all at once—thrilling, humiliating, and impossible to contain. Read our Critic's Pick review from #Cannes2026: thefilmstage.com/cannes-review-…

See the complete list of #Cannes2026 winners, led by Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'Or winner #Fjord: thefilmstage.com/cristian-mungi…

Cristian Mungiu's #Fjord wins the Palme d'Or at #Cannes2026, marking NEON's seventh Palme d'Or win in a row.

Los Javis' #LaBolaNegra is a sensational, novelistic epic following three men whose fates are bound by a search for identity, sexuality, and love. Read our Critic's Pick review from #Cannes2026: thefilmstage.com/cannes-review-…

#Coward sees Lukas Dhont adapting to period filmmaking while maintaining what he does best as a writer-director: slice open the emotional enclosure in which his characters try to hide. Read @SavinaPetkova's #Cannes2026 review: thefilmstage.com/cannes-review-…